In the line of an ATM Queue, I
get fragile with impatience of long lasting conversations with two gentlemen ,
one an Octogenarian and other in his middle age, discussing ‘Something of
Importance’ to themselves.
The ‘Hurry’ inside me made me
quite unaccustomed to as I had a timeline to match. Thinking to myself as to
what these gentlemen might be discussion in all perpetuity, I was about to ask
them to please hurry up their chores and thus free the ATM machine to make me
do the transaction in quick earnest.
Don’t know what stopped me from doing
so, I kept waiting and sulking. On a further look I saw that the ‘Problem’
statement was not the ATM machine but the ‘Card’ which was not being accepted
by the machine. The wait thus goes longer and so does the temperature within
me.
Suddenly with a thug , they ‘CLAP’
and catch my attention and I get to know that the much sought after transaction
has just ‘Gone Through’ and the buzzling sound of the ATM is a sign that cash
will just flow now. Seeing these two gentlemen, I reminisce that the two
elderly gentlemen must be old friends and today unexpectedly the ATM counter
has become a meeting place with a lot of coincidence involved.
After the ATM buzzle, the
counting of notes thus begins, the ‘Old-Habit’ never dies as they say, this
reminds me of the times when these oldies used to count every single rupee to
their satisfaction and then leave the cash counter in any nationalized bank.
Coming back to the situational
analysis I was in , the ATM door opens and both the gentlemen come out by
supporting and balancing each other with a note of ‘Thanks’ towards providing a
helping hand for a ‘Successful’ ATM transaction.
To my surprise both turn out to
be ‘Strangers’ and in anonymity met with the coincidence of time. The sight
turns tearful for my ego , as earlier thinking this to be a waste of time
standing in Queue of an ATM and waiting for the Slow ‘Elderly Gentlemen’ to
fasten up their transactions turn out to be lesson for life.
Be whatever, even if time is
less, the ‘Helping hand of God’ shall always seek you wherever sought. Thinking
of the middle aged man, who was repeatedly explaining the nitty-gritty of an
ATM machine and its operational attributes, wearing his Office suit, he must have
been getting late but still shows his patient side and sees to it that his
elder partner is not left half way through the process of extracting money from
the ATM Machine. The way they parted ways by greeting themselves off turns out
to be a sight to remember.
If I were to sit and think if I
had so much of patience to help in such a situation, I could endow myself with
a difficult answer. Generations come and go but the values you have engrained
from test of time and your family remains encapsulated in your genre and his
would be the ‘KEY’ to your day to day performance in Life.
Lesson learnt, the situational
analysis on each and every eyesight can be a learned lesson in your life.
Those ‘Ten Minutes’ of my
learning would be along with me for a long time to come and thus keep me of
remembrance of the situations one can be and the conduct one needs to endure to
have successful and pleasing living.
