The other day I had Roohafza at my parents’ home.
Too sweet. That too without a strong taste that makes you fall in love with it.
So, I decided to prepare rose sherbet, when I returned home in Noida.
Except, I had to now look for authentic red roses. Not the ones you find in bouquets, but the ones you offer to God. Those are the ones that offer aroma and taste in rose sherbet.
Welcome Reticular Activating System!
It is a part of the brain that regulates behavioural arousal, consciousness and motivation. Translated, it shows you what you are thinking of.
Lo and behold, while returning from my spiritual class, I found a guy delivering flowers to multiple homes on his bike.
“May I get some red roses please?” I stopped my car and asked him.
“Sure you can.” He put his hand into his bundle of red roses and offered some to me from his hands.
“Thanks a lot, but I’d need the entire small bag you are carrying,” I offered, “I am happy to pay for it.”
“Not a problem. Here you go.” He offered the small bag to me.
“How much?”
“No no, keep it.”
That was so generous of him. But I insisted: “Please bhaiya, le lijiye. Aise achchha nahi lagta. (Translated: Please brother, take the money. It doesn’t look good.”
Just to make me happy, he said they cost Rs. 10!
I haven’t stopped thinking about this instance from almost a month ago.
You can be rich in what you have, like I was, sitting in my car; but to me, that man is a forever generous, giving away what could make him money for free.
You may say he could have earned Rs. 10, 20, max Rs. 50 from you. That’s not the point. The point is he was being genuinely generous, irrespective of the value. That’s beautiful.
When we go to our lives, I understand it might not be prudent to put all we learn into practice. And it may not be possible to give away our products/services for free.
However, what we can do is:
- Be nice to the people we work with.
- Forgive their small (and big) mistakes.
- Truly, truly want others to succeed.
- Live a life where every small action of ours is inspiring. Be it our clean desk. Our notes of things we want to get done. Or perhaps the fact that we are always on time for lunch.
The big things rarely happen. It’s the small things that create a dent in the universe.
