Little things
………..
When you sit back, relax, ruminate and masticate old
instances, lingering thoughts, anecdotes and episodes, you will be amazed to note that not big
promotions, grand titles, fat bonus that have brought happiness in one’s life
!!! Small….. Pretty little things that were done by so thoughtful people have
brought in more joy in one’s life. Wish
to share a few ones!
“Bhagavan Manusha Rupena” thus goes one old Sanskrit saying.
Loosely this translates to “ God presents himself in the form of human beings to help” !
We all must have experienced this sometime or the other in
our lives. I had the same experience in the year 2004. After some debacle in
career due to one small erroneous move in 2004, I had to take up free lancing
work to support my family. Though meeting both ends was not very difficult, it
was proving to be a bit too tight to support our daughter in a professional
course, that too in hostel.
I had taken up part time assignment with Heinz to
visit their contract manufacturing unit in Mysore. I had to make limited visits
and the money coming was also limited. Of course at that time the money was a
big boon to support family as well as to send to my daughter.
During the course of my visits to Mysore, I came across this
gentleman who was the supply chain Director in Heinz. Though a Bengali, he was very
fluent in Tamil. He had little air about his supremacy, due to position etc.
Thus our association and friendship became strong. He never allowed me to
travel in train or bus when he was in town. His car would pick me up and drop.
Evenings we had dinner together.
One day, I had asked him to join me for breakfast and wanted
to know his preference for items during breakfast. He left the choice to me and
arrived in time next day morning. He enjoyed “Dosa with Gun powder”. He had his
favorite filter coffee which was made exclusively for him.
As we were about to move he asked my wife to accept a cover.
It was very clear that the cover contained money. My wife politely told him
that she would not accept anything without my permission.
Then he hold her politely that as we were passing through a
bad patch, he was giving INR 25000 as loan payable when able. I politely told him that there was no need
for that as we were managing fine. He insisted that we should accept the same
and not refuse his help. The money was indeed very useful to us to tide over
some difficulties then.
Later when he visited Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand he
was our guest for an evening dinner in Bangkok, Thailand where I had moved by then. We
took him and his wife for dinner in Bangkok.
He traveled all the way from Mumbai to attend our daughter’s wedding in
2011.
We still keep good contact and whenever I hear “ Bhagavan
Manusha Rupena” his face comes to my mind !
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