To give some idea of how these statements came about
- a neighbour talking about his new neighbour when constructing her building with scant regard to the safety of his house. it was a joint house that belonged to two brothers. one brother sold so the house was literally cut up in half. She did not care what happened to his home. She finsihed her construction without any damage to his home but it was a harrowing experience and she did not care about what others thought either.
- referring to how domestics are treated, a generalisation but about their working conditions, this one is open, some people abuse their help others don't.
- a tv repair guy who gives me a philosophy lesson whilst he's repairing my crt. a general critique on contemporary society. How he got treated by people.
Within a month, three different people, different contexts, different places.
I have had a lots of similar experiences. From my experience , lot of people are behind making money and hardly care about others. In the process if anyone gets hurt or damaged its not their problem. They have become apathetic and insensitive.
They are just bothered about their house and their family. Everything revolves around I, ME, MYSELF.
I can share one of the recent experience. We live in independent house.
There is this person constructing house just next to us. He doesnt care about us at all or anyone.
We have mud road from the main road to our house.During the last rainy seaons he screwed up the roads many times by lots of heavy trucks coming. My car infact got stuck in the road mess he created once and i couldnt move the car. I had to get some workers in the night to fill in mud so that i can move my car out.
He screwed up the road to my house many times duing the rains. Everytime we had to pay money to fill the road with mud.
We requested him many times to put gravel and mud before getting his trucks but he doesnt listen. he used to damage the road and we used to pay money to repair it. I infact stopped taking my car out for a while during rains.
Then now during summer all the cement and wood blocks and gravel keep falling in our compund. There are cement stains on my window.
Again after requests he doesnt care to clean it up or take necesary precaution.
Now he acts as if we are causing trouble to him and doesnt look at us. He and his wife thinks we are causing him problem.
On a similar topic sometime back i found a calf with broken leg near my home. It seems some motorycyclist hit it and broke one of its legs.
The owner of the calf instead of taking care of the calf had abaondoned it. But they were very happy to milk its mother. Infact they had abandoned the mother before. But when they found out that the cow had delivered calves, they took the mother home for sometime, so that they could sell the milk.
I went places to find cow shelter for the calf. But it was already overpacked. I also tried to find a doc. Showed him the pics. The doc said that if they wud have taken care initially then the legs cud have been fixed with a cast. Now it would need a surgery to put iron rods. We were not sure what to do and the cow also disappeared then.
One more experience I can share.
We have a NGO in our company which collects money for poor unpriveleged small children for school and food.
Lot of children who are completing ther graduation and dont have money to pay for the course, as their parents are workers with daily wages like a coolie.
Only few people donate. People simply refuse to contribute even 100Rs.
There are lots more such expreriences.
Though my post would make me seem cynical, I have seen people who were very kind and good. Probably humanity is still alive due to such people.
