Bell the Cat..

Writing from an experience that I had this morning, when one of the tenants in my building left me aghast with this statement!

The Incident:

The servant, who stays in a house on the roof-top, sprinkles water at the gate entrance everyday morning. But what’s odd about it is that she does it from the roof-top itself! I mean she pours water from roof onto the ground floor entrance. And though this is an objectionable thing, no one has ever raised an issue, ‘coz, no one had suffered due to this act. Unfortunately, one of the visitors to the tenants below us, facing the entrance, had to suffer today. His clothes, roped for drying up, apparently got wet! And he was fuming with anger over this. Rushing over to the servants, he raised his objection over their act as a tenant/servant. And on the way down, he stopped to narrate the incident. I consoled him and talked as to how wrong of her to do this and even provided a solution of talking to the owners! But, he was just wondering as to how could none of us have raised an objection so far. Maybe, just because it didn’t effect us so far! In the end, dejectedly, he left stating, “No Ones ready to Bell the Cat“……..

The Opinion:

I think, people, especially in metros and having a busy life, are growing more of uncaring towards others. We are bothered only about our lives. This is evident from the fact that many of us don’t know who our neighbors are, leave apart getting involved with them. Ya, sadly I am too a part of the group. I am not saying go and do social service. But, there should be atleast some kind of involvement with the society at all stages of life! This attitude maybe because of the ‘projected’ hectic life, however, I think we can definitely take some time out to know each other and tackle common problems. We don’t worry about any of the social problems which don’t directly effect us. As a consequence of this incident, I have decided to talk to the servants and raise my concern too.

Atleast, lets start from small things, which we feel, we can do. So, that our small step, can lead to similar such small steps and help reinstate the faith on humanity and help spreading good-will.