The open bag
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“Excuse me.”
“Yes?”
“Your bag is open.” I pointed towards his bag.
“Thank you.” He smiled and closed his bag. He continued walking. I headed towards my office building. While walking, I was looking around. Everyone was carrying cell phone in hand, either seating in the campus or standing near the pond and enjoying fun time after lunch. Some of them were talking on cell phone and some of them were listening to songs. A crowd of a few people was looking towards various fishes and their movements in the pond. Some guys were discussing about their own lives, personal or corporate and much more.
In a few minutes, I entered my office. The security guard checked my
bag to ensure that I was not carrying any material like CDs/DVDs or
external hard disk. I reached my desk and greeted my colleagues. I
turned on my desktop and connected cell phone to charging. Before going
to washroom, I told my colleague to keep an eye on my cell phone so that
no body touches it. I was wondering how much I care for my cell
phone! If cell phone is so much valuable to me, then are other things
such as wallet, tiffin, railway season ticket, debit/credit cards,
office identity card etc., which I am carrying with me in my bag, also
not equally valuable? Do I take care of them too? Before leaving my
desk, do I check my bag? Do I really think about this?
Whenever we visit any public place, we observe a notice which asks us to take care of our personal things, our belongings. We run on clock tick whenever we are getting late. As a part of fast moving world, everyone is always in a great hurry while going or leaving office. While running with time, we often ignore such important notices and. become careless about our belongings. We buy things at a price, yet, when in hurry are careless to leave our bag open thinking that we will close it once in train. But we fail to do this sometimes. We are unable to manage and the bag remains open giving a golden opportunity to thieves to steal. Alighting from the train we get worried and start searching it, “Where did it go?” We query ourselves just to realize that we have lost it for ever. This happened at whose doing? Ours or that of the thief? Obviously the responsibility is entirely ours…!!!
Were we careful about our lost thing? The answer is no. The thing may get lost in a fraction of a second. So we have to be always alert and careful. Yes, such lapses occur due to personal tensions, or frustration but, we can avoid them by having presence of mind. Remember, none but we ourselves consider our valuables important. For others, they hold no value apart from their value in currency.
So, please take care of your belongings. None else cares for them as much as us.
Sunit S. Pendse
2nd April 2014
sunitpendse.blogspot.com
Whenever we visit any public place, we observe a notice which asks us to take care of our personal things, our belongings. We run on clock tick whenever we are getting late. As a part of fast moving world, everyone is always in a great hurry while going or leaving office. While running with time, we often ignore such important notices and. become careless about our belongings. We buy things at a price, yet, when in hurry are careless to leave our bag open thinking that we will close it once in train. But we fail to do this sometimes. We are unable to manage and the bag remains open giving a golden opportunity to thieves to steal. Alighting from the train we get worried and start searching it, “Where did it go?” We query ourselves just to realize that we have lost it for ever. This happened at whose doing? Ours or that of the thief? Obviously the responsibility is entirely ours…!!!
Were we careful about our lost thing? The answer is no. The thing may get lost in a fraction of a second. So we have to be always alert and careful. Yes, such lapses occur due to personal tensions, or frustration but, we can avoid them by having presence of mind. Remember, none but we ourselves consider our valuables important. For others, they hold no value apart from their value in currency.
So, please take care of your belongings. None else cares for them as much as us.
Sunit S. Pendse
2nd April 2014
sunitpendse.blogspot.com
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