What a boring day ... Chatting , reading , music everything tried ... still boring . oh . i sighed . what to do ... It was a Sunday afternoon . Since i was released from the current project assignment my mind was empty ... No technological thoughts ... No spiritual thoughts ... An absolute emptiness ...Despite of persistent opposition from my parents i have been preserving the Sunday supplements of certain leading news papers in my shelf . They are my treasure which used to accompany me in job location transfer . My closest friend in loneliness ...A random search . Pulled out an old dusty one . It was dated 14th Dec 2003 . On the corner i had marked remarkable with red ink .It was titled "Todays Thought" . It was about the life of an elevator operator Freddy who survived the adverse circumstances in his life .
A brief description of that article :-
Freddy was an officer in the underground railway dept. during second world war time .His right leg was amputated after an accident due to which he lost his job .Being the sole bread winner of his family , he found very difficult to manage daily expenditure ... Somehow he got a job of as a elevator operator in a multi story building . Daily 50-60 times up and down he was bored and irritated . Oh my god ... how boring this job ...Passenger's of the elevator never used to speak to him . They used to speak only about new business deals , salient features of the newly launched car , up coming salary increments etc ... Sometimes nobody used to speak each other . Utter silence .Oh my god he sighed . Day by day he became more and more frustrated .
It was a Monday . Elevator was crowded as usual. No sooner did it reached the top story than people started rushing outside . An old man was struggling himself to get out of the elevator. In the rush he fell down and fainted .Freddy who used to remain as a mere spectator in such circumstances , for the
first time in his life felt a mild compassion towards that old man . He sprinkled some water on his face and the old man regained consciousness . That old man smiled at him and thanked him . It was just a beginning ... For the first time in his life he felt sympathy to someone ...
He started interacting with the passenger's of the elevator. Making them happy with good jokes and consoling them in adverse situations. Freddy became very popular in that multi story building .By placing a music system inside the elevator which always played great musical compositions which were capable of giving immense pleasure and instill bliss in listener's mind , he could draw the attention of the building authorities thereby getting appreciations and rewards .He kept a small basket on the corner of the elevator in which the customers of a big supermarket of that building started depositing food items , cheques and other consumer goods .By evening he could collect a very large quantity of those things which he contributed to an orphanage and to a palliative cancer care center .Such deeds impressed the authorities and in turn he was chosen as the best employee of that year ...
first time in his life felt a mild compassion towards that old man . He sprinkled some water on his face and the old man regained consciousness . That old man smiled at him and thanked him . It was just a beginning ... For the first time in his life he felt sympathy to someone ...
He started interacting with the passenger's of the elevator. Making them happy with good jokes and consoling them in adverse situations. Freddy became very popular in that multi story building .By placing a music system inside the elevator which always played great musical compositions which were capable of giving immense pleasure and instill bliss in listener's mind , he could draw the attention of the building authorities thereby getting appreciations and rewards .He kept a small basket on the corner of the elevator in which the customers of a big supermarket of that building started depositing food items , cheques and other consumer goods .By evening he could collect a very large quantity of those things which he contributed to an orphanage and to a palliative cancer care center .Such deeds impressed the authorities and in turn he was chosen as the best employee of that year ...
There used to be a Bible in the corner of the elevator kept on a small table from which he used to give a sentence for that day for his close friends .Despite of the boring and frustrating working environment he made his life a great celebration . He used to narrate his own story who complains about their ill fate and worthlessness of the life ...
I belive his deeds will inspire us ... If any ten such Freedies are there in our place ... 1000 in our state 1 lakh in our country and 1 crore in the world this world would have transformed to a real heaven ...
