Saturday 12 March 2016

SMALL GESTURES.

 The words 'please 'and 'thank you' are used by each one of us in our daily life so many times. Do you know how much powerful they are?  Here is an example.  A lady had a habit of buying betel leaves from a paan broker every week she went to buy vegetables in the vegetable market. She used to give change of ten rupees to paan seller and get the betel leaves from him As betel leaves were not easily available there she could not get them anywhere else and was forced to give ten rupees for four leaves instead ten leaves . But instead of grumbling over the loss she used to thank the paan seller for selling the betel leaves for they donot appreciate the idea of selling the leaves separately instead of paan. [two leaves are enough to make a paan and it costs about three times the rate of leaves.]. This paan seller also used to provide change to that lady.
           One day it had rained heavily and the market was very slippery . There were very few people at the market and they were in a hurryto return to their homes before it started to rain again. Unfortunately this lady slipped and hurt her leg. It pained a  lot and she could not move her leg.  There was no one to help her. She tried calling her husband frantically but of no use. She did not know what to do. Nobody was ready to help her.  But then this paan wallah came to her rescue.  He got a auto , helped her to get in and sent her home. It might be a small help but a timely one   A timely help is always appreciated than an ordinary one.  All she did to get that timely help was just saying the two ordinary words  'please and thank-you.