Waiter! There is a fly in my Soup!
It is not often that we realize how ignorant we have become of the hard work that goes into services that we can simply buy off the shelf.
If that doesn't make sense, lets look at it this way - we go to a fancy restaurant, order, eat, ask for the cheque and that's about it. I have almost forgotten that food needs to be prepared before it can be served to me.. I only see it as if the waiter takes my order and comes back after a while with whatever I asked for. I don't see the hard work, the preparation, the time and energy that must've gone into it.
Maybe it is because of staying away from home for so long. I don't get to see food being prepared. Food is like an off the shelf commodity for so many of us. Order, wait and eat. Why care for who works how hard to make it - I'm paying for it, am I not?
I don't know, but I feel guilty.
posted by Manas Garg @ 7:45 AM
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18 Comments:
guilty? because you are getting what u pay for? oh then u should be guilty for whatever u buy, shouldn't u? the hard work, time, energy...well it's a profession like any other and the money u pay ought to say it all...
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for not even thinking about the hard work that goes into things I can simply procure off the shelf. Have we not become much ignorant than we were before?
No. The appreciation is automatic ... in the form of money! Money u pay is a symbol of yr appreciation, yr value, yr work, yr THINKING!
i choose to disagree. It is not appreciation. It does not show I respect the skill. Its just consumerism.
Do you actually think of money in terms of appreciation, value and thinking? I don't think so. Its just and just a heartless barter. I guess actual barter trade is better in this sense. You get to know the value of what you're paying for in a more personal and fuller sense.
Well where did consumerism come from? From the belief of men who invented money, which is that it's an objective value of yr best efforts. Money is your claim, CLAIM on the efforts of ppl who produce... It's a token of the trade of values involved, yrs and theirs.
it sure was meant to be.. but is it like that? or do we take it to be like that? not at all friend!
hmmm... it'd be like that once i start earning myself. true, not before that.
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you have a point. But all of you, you only say what we could do, or the ideal case. More often than not, we DON'T appreciate the skill in our hearts. That is all I have been trying to say. I'm not using the blog as a way to get around my guilt feeling, but to make us realise that we are becoming less and less considerate for others' work. I hope it has some effect. This argument may go on forever, but You must agree that I have a point, and that point is what I want to express.
to mr anonymous,
youve had too much of Atlas Shrugged
and it seems you were just looking for an oppotunity to dole out wot fransisco had filled in you.
dont squabble and spoil a blog
just coz the net is so democratic in natooray
there isn't anything like too much of atlas shrugged baby. i think i actually quoted it but so what? the blogger's profile mentioned it and i played to know what he really thinks of it. u see... i know him.
I think what you are trying to present as guilt is actually a feeling of emptiness that hits us when we find that something very familiar is missing. The guilt of not appreciating the process of making food rather seems to be the fact now you realize the efforts that your mother made while cooking and which were not appreciated as much as they should have been by you. I had a similar feeling once and came to this conclusion, cant really say if you feel the same.
On second thought it can even be the effect of a very object oriented kind of a world that we live in, we hardly get to see anything beyond what we asked for and so cannot really "connect" emotionally with the endresult.
Money and consumerism, hahaha, they hardly seem the reason to me!
Maybe, I agree with you to a certain extent. The fact is, its not just the food - its also a ride in a rickshaw (do we give a thought to the existence of the rickshaw puller?) or a cook in a canteen - just look at life from their point of view - doing what others want them to do - everyday. Don't know, but I cannot imagine myself in a situation like this.
Maybe I'll be a huge failure at a regular job :)
shut the fuck up!
life is made of ups and downs......everybody has to do his or her own work.....so it is wrong on ur part to consider the work done by a rickshaw puller...or a cook...or anybody as lowly....every work is great if you give ur 100% to it....and feel satisfied at the end of the day....i think no work is larg and small by itself...its' the workin spirit behind it that makes it great....
It is indeed tragic to see that v don't see how much work was done to produce an object which v just procured n used....
i also feel sad about this but what can be done to rid ourselves of this emptiness or hollowness??
One thing which i occasionally do is appreciate these "little things"...
i say little bcoz nowadays nobody cares for how much a person did for providing u with an object....
Whenever i get food at restaurant or i have been driven by rickshaw to somewhere, i pass a SMILE or say THANKS...
it doesn't cost me much but it is invaluable to person for whom it is meant to be :) :)
Try this method n u will suddenly find a happy world :)
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