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FUSED BULBS
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A big officer came to stay in the housing society, who had just retired.
This elderly big retired officer, shocked and disturbed, walking in the Society park every evening, looking at others with contempt and not talking to anyone.
#ThursdayThoughts
A big officer came to stay in the housing society, who had just retired.
This elderly big retired officer, shocked and disturbed, walking in the Society park every evening, looking at others with contempt and not talking to anyone.
One day he sat near an elderly one in the evening for a chat and then started sitting continuously with him.
His conversation was always the same topic. “I was such a big officer that one can’t imagine and don't ask, Here I have come in compulsion, etc. etc.”
His conversation was always the same topic. “I was such a big officer that one can’t imagine and don't ask, Here I have come in compulsion, etc. etc.”
That elder used to listen to him peacefully.
One day when the “retired” officer showed some signs of inquisitiveness in his eyes and some curiosity, the elderly listener finally gave him the true wisdom.
One day when the “retired” officer showed some signs of inquisitiveness in his eyes and some curiosity, the elderly listener finally gave him the true wisdom.
He explained:-
“After retirement, we are all like a fuse bulbs, who was of how much wattage, how much gave light and glitter, it doesn't matter after the fuse.”
“After retirement, we are all like a fuse bulbs, who was of how much wattage, how much gave light and glitter, it doesn't matter after the fuse.”
He continued and said, “I have been living in the Society for the last 5 years and have not told anyone that I have been a Member of the Parliament twice.
He there, is Vermaji he was the General Manager of Railways, he there, Singh Saheb was Brigadier in the army, That there, Mehra ji was the chief of ISRO, he has not told this to anyone, not even to me, but I know”.
“All fuse bulbs are now almost the same ~ whether it's zero watt, 40, 60, 100 watts, halogen or flood-light, now no light ~ no use; and that's you too.
The day you will understand this, you will be able to live in the society peacefully”
The day you will understand this, you will be able to live in the society peacefully”
In Indian religious philosophy, the rising and setting sun is given equal respect, but in real life - We worship the rising sun by offering water but not the setting sun, the sooner we understand this, sooner life will be easy.”
//My view: Each of us will become this bulb sometime. It is better we become people known for our intrinsic qualities rather than positions that we held. Being grounded helps as even otherwise where wiring is not grounded properly, can give us thunderbolt of a shock.
