Dedication and Commitment.. An ideal example!!

I keep telling my self, I should make it a habit to jot down those special things that i see day to day. Well the frequency of my blogging shows clearly I am no where close of achieving that.

This incident is some thing that happened yesterday, while I was travelling by bus. There are so many things that happen around us everyday, and when I see it through the eye of the spectator, it never fails to amaze me.

When ever I take a bus ride to office, I take the AC Volvo. On a typical Tuesday morning the common scene in the Volvo bus is people with head phones, news paper, books etc. The air is sophisticated. And the journey is quite monotonous.
Yesterday those buses were carrying people to the extent of indigestion, hence I took a normal bus, and the scene in this bus was totally different. I was sitting by the window with my head phones on, and the December edition of reader's digest. This is when an old lady, must be around 75 years, seated her self next to me. The first thing I noticed about her was a basket. She paid her ticket fare and the next thing she did was to pull a bunch of half dried coconut leaves out of her basket. She started splitting each small strand into 2 smaller strands, and them into further finer strands. Within seconds her hand was full with a bunch of finely articulated strands of coconut leaves. And there she started with a new bunch from the basket. Of course this would be used to create a broom stick, which she might sell off for a meager price.

My journey with her was for half an hour, and people came and went, bus got jam packed, then empty, but the thin framed little old lady was meticulously doing her job, dint once look up from her work. At first I was feeling uncomfortable with the smell and all, but once I started looking at her intently, I was lost in thought.

It amazed me, her dedication at this age touched my heart. Her determination to earn her buck on her own impressed me. We at this age would happily live on some one else's money if given a choice. But at the age of 75 or more, this old lady wants to live a life that would not burden any one else. She could have relaxed and rested her back to the seat, and closed her eyes to catch some rest during her travel, which we usually do, even after 8 to 9 hours of sleep. But no, there she was, already on duty, after collecting her raw material and on the way to work for the rest of the day. She wanted to make the best use of even that small period of time of her travel.

We don have to look for inspirations else where, there are people around us, doing their day to day job, but yet inspiring us, exciting us, giving us reason to believe in our selves. All that is required is for us to open our eyes, our mind and our heart to look at these people!!