Today I want to share with you all one of my experience with an old cab driver.
In India there is no age limit for certain professions, and Cab driver is one of it. There is no check if a person is suitable to do this work. It was on one evening while returning from work, I stopped a cab. I was in too much hurry, so as soon as he stopped I just hopped in and then I gave instructions to the driver where i wanted to go and got busy on a call. After a certain while I realized that he was driving very slowly and not that the road was blocked. So I was wondering what was wrong with him and why he was driving so slowly. I striked a conversation with him and I got an answer from him in a very feeble voice which I was barely able to hear. So I got a little more curious to the situation. From behind I was not able to judge much so I changed my position a bit to be able to see him and have a conversation with him.
To my utter shock this person was a very aged man. I checked with him on his age and he mentioned he was 82. I was so very much taken back. A person of this age is still working and that too such a tedious job. I checked with him why does he drive at this age. So he told me, that he has no choice. His son has no work and his son has a family, to support his Son's family he needs to work. Oh my God this was completely shocking for me. First of all, such a useless and shameful person his son must be that he could not take care of his family and his father has to struggle at this age for their livelihood. While I was feeling very disappointed about his son at the same time, I was feeling much respectful for this man.
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The epitome of this conversation with the cab driver was yet to come. When I finished my journey, I decided that I will help him with something additional, so I offered him some extra money. To my surprise he refused to take the money and mentioned, please give me only what is due and nothing additional. My respect for him just soared, so much of self respect under the testing circumstances, for that one needs very strong values which were so clearly reflecting in him.
What a gem of a person, to not count age as any type of barrier and continue with courage. Life is not easy for many people but it takes a lot of courage to continue and put up a brave face out there in the world fighting it out for themselves and not succumbing to self pity.
A little bit of difficulty and so many of us give up or start feeling sorry for ourselves or feel that we have all the problems in life. Whereas there are these few out there like this cab driver who hit the problem hard in it's face and continue their journey.
SourceMany people are going through the most adverse conditions in life. There are people living in war zone areas, people living in drought areas, people living in extreme poverty, people living on streets and so many of these. The only thing I feel they have is the Courage to continue in life with all the ups and downs which determines their strengths.
My respect for all such people who irrespective of their conditions still keep marching ahead fearlessly and conquering life.
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