2 Sides of the Same Coin - is a small account of his life by a Security Gurad at a Plush Mall in Delhi - How being in the midst of abundance of wealth & richness, he looks to life with a Positive approach & not perturbed by his own strugle
Hi Friends , My Name is Happy Singh. I really Like my name… I think even Lucky singh would have been good…. I feel I am Happy & Lucky Both & Why Not ? I feel happy to be having this Life, Happy to be alive in this world, Happy to be married to my Beautiful , Kamala……She is Dark, But very beautiful eyes…..I have 1 beautiful Daughter Guddi, who is Like they say “The Apple of My Eyes”…..She is also dark like her mother, but has very sharp features , and she has a very sharp brain as well
Yesterday only she made me memorise some English Verbs & quotations –can now repeat without breaks…& some good words….Like what is your Name ? I am Fine, Sir ….etc….She is very good….Even I am learning many new things form Her……Its good to see that She is taking Interest in the studies, Unlike her father or Uncles. I started working from a very early age, Beginning the struggle & Toil at an early age. My father worked in the Gas Furnace on Outskirts of Delhi, & we resided in one of the Small rooms for the workers of the Plant, I used to do some odd, jobs at the Construction sites as a daily wager, as a Domestic Help later, I have one younger brother, who later stayed with us. My Mother worked as a Domestic Help in some Big Kothi in Delhi , she suffered from bad health….My 2 elder brothers, died in the Mothers womb only…I was told, that they died of some horse carriage / or may be mother went roaming in a carriage, & they died because of so much movement, or miscarriage, I don’t Know…. My Younger Brother, is a very simple guy……He is very quite normally, but gets very angry when people tease him….People used to call him an Idiot….Idiot meaning, that he had no brains…..That he cant understand simple things easily……So they called him an Idiot…..One day, while coming from work, I saw a Cigarette Pack lying on the floor. I picked it up, & saw some Skeleton Sign on that…I asked some Friend, who knew little English, whats written on this…He said, It is Printed, “Smoking is Injurious to health “….That day I realized, that so many of us, Including Me smoke everyday, are such Idiots……when it is written on the Box, that it is harmful to health , still we keep smoking it………Then so many of us are Idiots, if we cant understand this simple thing & still keep doing it…………
After working so many years, as a Labor, at the Gas furnace, my father developed severe respiratory Problems, because of so much exposure to gases & Fumes….He was later made to work in the Time Keeping Dept, keeping in mind his health…He finally died at the age of 54………After his death, the Factory gave me the job of the Time Keeper at the factory, & My Younger brother got a job as a plant runner…My Mother, finally expired after 3 years…She died of Severe TB…That’s when I decided, that If I need to prolong my & my Familys life, I need to Move out of the Factory Job…….The Job was as it is too demanding…..I used to be working mainly on the night Shifts from 10PM to 8 AM…. I would come home, and would somehow find the Home to be relatively chilled, because of the excessive heat waves that I was subjected to Being In & Out of the Plant….The meals at the plant were also very Bad……My health started to deteriorate…..I continued like this for 5 years & then things Changed
Todays Life is so different, Although I may not be earning so much, But I really get to learn & see so much in this Job….I get to see so many rich & Influential People , that it all really adds upto the experience. A Man is Known by the Company He keeps, I read in Guddis Book somewhere.
My Job here is very Interesting, I get to meet so many Different Types of People, & most of them are Consumers / Upward Consumption Cycle of Life. I also get to give all of them, a Half Hug…..My Job Demands that……there is very less time & I have to meet so many of the Customers, so I cant Hug all of them
My Office is located at one of the Prime & Biggest Properties in South of Delhi, The main Place of the Rich People of Delhi. The office is located in the heart of the Commercial Market, Saket. Our Office is Spread over an area of 2 Lac Square Feet, That’s right, 2 Lacs Square feet of Posh Construction, Spread Over 4 Floors…All of which is Centrally Air conditioned. The Best of Flooring & Tiles, The best of Designs, The best of Fittings, Paints , Lighting, a Fantastic experience… I think I have come a Long way from the Dingy Cabin of a Security Officer at a Gas Furnace…..I don’t feel proud,, Because Pride is the beginning of Downfall, But I really feel happy to have come here. Its like to be at the Center of such great activity
“Atithi Devo Bhava” , meaning Guests are Like Gods. This is how we treat Guests in Our Country, With such great honor & Love..and my Job in this context becomes very Important Here…..I am the first Point of Contact for so many people who come to Our Office.. I am Like a Brand amabassador I Feel, We also get a free Company attire…I am the Security In Charge for Passage No2 at Select City walk, Delhis Biggest & Best LifeStyle / Shopping Mall. That’s why I said, I get to give all of them, a Half Hug, to check their Jackets, shirts, Trousers, wallets etc
Mall, First my Friends in the Other Depts in Security used to call it as Maal…I also Used to call it a Maal, Seeing How People come & Spend so much Money , I thought it may be a Maal…But I know it is called a Mall
I get to see so many People, & also Learn a Lot from them. I see so many new models of Laptops, Latest Mobile Phones, Fashions, Clothing, How people spend money , & Also how not to waste money
3 days ago, I saw some School students, Young Girls & Boys, who had come to the mall… They all were from some good school, as they were all talking to each Other in very fast English, They spend close to 6,000Rs in 3 hours…..Almost my 1 months Salary……..But One thing I didn’t Like,,, Their skirts were too short….all above their Knees….I will not send my Guddi, to schools, where girls wear too short skirts…..Also they learn bad things at School…..One girl got a Call from her mother on the latest Cell Phone, and she said , that she is on a Tution… I hope My Guddi, will never lie to us
Last Saturday, I saw One Middle aged woman, walking Hand in Hand, with Her Husband….when suddenly her Cell Phone rang..After finishing the call, she said to the Guy, “My Husband keeps calling me every 10 minutes.. I am fed Up”…..This type of thing also keeps on happening at the mall sometimes…..
I also see a Lot Of Old People coming here to enjoy……Lot of Old Uncles & Aunties, Come dressed Like Boys & Girls…Wearing Young Clothes, Nickers, Shorts, Color T DSHIRTS, Printed Shirts, Sleeveless Kurtas…All clothes of the Young Boys & Girls…some of them Look very bad, while some Look very smart dressed in Young Clothes….
I also learnt something about Foreigners,….People say that Foreigners were very bad People. They ruled us for so many yearm & that they Looted & Killed Indians….Here I see so many of o Foreigners, They are very Nice to us, Infact most of them greet us with a smile….Many a Times on Days of celebration – New Years, Christmas…I have got man Gifts from the foreigner Customers who come to our mall
I have bought Jeans for Guddi……I see so many People in the mall wearing Jeans………Guddi Told me one Phrase form Her Book…..”Great Minds think alike”…All these Educated & Rich People must also be thinking same things, as they are wearing the same jeans in the malls……..May be Once guddi starts wearing Jeans, she will also think Like educated & Modern People
As For Myself, well as I Said, I am Happy & Enjoying myself…Its so nice & Clean here…Fresh & Chilled air of the air Conditioner, Nice, Clean Clothes, Beautiful faces…., wonderful Fragrance of Perfumes, Ice Creams, Food,,,,, I am in the middle Of Richness, Money. I see crores of Rupees being spent on malls every week, I see so much richness, so much money around me ……. But still dealing happily with my own poverty … Wealth & Poverty – Both are 2 sides of the Same Coin - Money
Hi Friends , My Name is Happy Singh. I really Like my name… I think even Lucky singh would have been good…. I feel I am Happy & Lucky Both & Why Not ? I feel happy to be having this Life, Happy to be alive in this world, Happy to be married to my Beautiful , Kamala……She is Dark, But very beautiful eyes…..I have 1 beautiful Daughter Guddi, who is Like they say “The Apple of My Eyes”…..She is also dark like her mother, but has very sharp features , and she has a very sharp brain as well
Yesterday only she made me memorise some English Verbs & quotations –can now repeat without breaks…& some good words….Like what is your Name ? I am Fine, Sir ….etc….She is very good….Even I am learning many new things form Her……Its good to see that She is taking Interest in the studies, Unlike her father or Uncles. I started working from a very early age, Beginning the struggle & Toil at an early age. My father worked in the Gas Furnace on Outskirts of Delhi, & we resided in one of the Small rooms for the workers of the Plant, I used to do some odd, jobs at the Construction sites as a daily wager, as a Domestic Help later, I have one younger brother, who later stayed with us. My Mother worked as a Domestic Help in some Big Kothi in Delhi , she suffered from bad health….My 2 elder brothers, died in the Mothers womb only…I was told, that they died of some horse carriage / or may be mother went roaming in a carriage, & they died because of so much movement, or miscarriage, I don’t Know…. My Younger Brother, is a very simple guy……He is very quite normally, but gets very angry when people tease him….People used to call him an Idiot….Idiot meaning, that he had no brains…..That he cant understand simple things easily……So they called him an Idiot…..One day, while coming from work, I saw a Cigarette Pack lying on the floor. I picked it up, & saw some Skeleton Sign on that…I asked some Friend, who knew little English, whats written on this…He said, It is Printed, “Smoking is Injurious to health “….That day I realized, that so many of us, Including Me smoke everyday, are such Idiots……when it is written on the Box, that it is harmful to health , still we keep smoking it………Then so many of us are Idiots, if we cant understand this simple thing & still keep doing it…………
After working so many years, as a Labor, at the Gas furnace, my father developed severe respiratory Problems, because of so much exposure to gases & Fumes….He was later made to work in the Time Keeping Dept, keeping in mind his health…He finally died at the age of 54………After his death, the Factory gave me the job of the Time Keeper at the factory, & My Younger brother got a job as a plant runner…My Mother, finally expired after 3 years…She died of Severe TB…That’s when I decided, that If I need to prolong my & my Familys life, I need to Move out of the Factory Job…….The Job was as it is too demanding…..I used to be working mainly on the night Shifts from 10PM to 8 AM…. I would come home, and would somehow find the Home to be relatively chilled, because of the excessive heat waves that I was subjected to Being In & Out of the Plant….The meals at the plant were also very Bad……My health started to deteriorate…..I continued like this for 5 years & then things Changed
Todays Life is so different, Although I may not be earning so much, But I really get to learn & see so much in this Job….I get to see so many rich & Influential People , that it all really adds upto the experience. A Man is Known by the Company He keeps, I read in Guddis Book somewhere.
My Job here is very Interesting, I get to meet so many Different Types of People, & most of them are Consumers / Upward Consumption Cycle of Life. I also get to give all of them, a Half Hug…..My Job Demands that……there is very less time & I have to meet so many of the Customers, so I cant Hug all of them
My Office is located at one of the Prime & Biggest Properties in South of Delhi, The main Place of the Rich People of Delhi. The office is located in the heart of the Commercial Market, Saket. Our Office is Spread over an area of 2 Lac Square Feet, That’s right, 2 Lacs Square feet of Posh Construction, Spread Over 4 Floors…All of which is Centrally Air conditioned. The Best of Flooring & Tiles, The best of Designs, The best of Fittings, Paints , Lighting, a Fantastic experience… I think I have come a Long way from the Dingy Cabin of a Security Officer at a Gas Furnace…..I don’t feel proud,, Because Pride is the beginning of Downfall, But I really feel happy to have come here. Its like to be at the Center of such great activity
“Atithi Devo Bhava” , meaning Guests are Like Gods. This is how we treat Guests in Our Country, With such great honor & Love..and my Job in this context becomes very Important Here…..I am the first Point of Contact for so many people who come to Our Office.. I am Like a Brand amabassador I Feel, We also get a free Company attire…I am the Security In Charge for Passage No2 at Select City walk, Delhis Biggest & Best LifeStyle / Shopping Mall. That’s why I said, I get to give all of them, a Half Hug, to check their Jackets, shirts, Trousers, wallets etc
Mall, First my Friends in the Other Depts in Security used to call it as Maal…I also Used to call it a Maal, Seeing How People come & Spend so much Money , I thought it may be a Maal…But I know it is called a Mall
I get to see so many People, & also Learn a Lot from them. I see so many new models of Laptops, Latest Mobile Phones, Fashions, Clothing, How people spend money , & Also how not to waste money
3 days ago, I saw some School students, Young Girls & Boys, who had come to the mall… They all were from some good school, as they were all talking to each Other in very fast English, They spend close to 6,000Rs in 3 hours…..Almost my 1 months Salary……..But One thing I didn’t Like,,, Their skirts were too short….all above their Knees….I will not send my Guddi, to schools, where girls wear too short skirts…..Also they learn bad things at School…..One girl got a Call from her mother on the latest Cell Phone, and she said , that she is on a Tution… I hope My Guddi, will never lie to us
Last Saturday, I saw One Middle aged woman, walking Hand in Hand, with Her Husband….when suddenly her Cell Phone rang..After finishing the call, she said to the Guy, “My Husband keeps calling me every 10 minutes.. I am fed Up”…..This type of thing also keeps on happening at the mall sometimes…..
I also see a Lot Of Old People coming here to enjoy……Lot of Old Uncles & Aunties, Come dressed Like Boys & Girls…Wearing Young Clothes, Nickers, Shorts, Color T DSHIRTS, Printed Shirts, Sleeveless Kurtas…All clothes of the Young Boys & Girls…some of them Look very bad, while some Look very smart dressed in Young Clothes….
I also learnt something about Foreigners,….People say that Foreigners were very bad People. They ruled us for so many yearm & that they Looted & Killed Indians….Here I see so many of o Foreigners, They are very Nice to us, Infact most of them greet us with a smile….Many a Times on Days of celebration – New Years, Christmas…I have got man Gifts from the foreigner Customers who come to our mall
I have bought Jeans for Guddi……I see so many People in the mall wearing Jeans………Guddi Told me one Phrase form Her Book…..”Great Minds think alike”…All these Educated & Rich People must also be thinking same things, as they are wearing the same jeans in the malls……..May be Once guddi starts wearing Jeans, she will also think Like educated & Modern People
As For Myself, well as I Said, I am Happy & Enjoying myself…Its so nice & Clean here…Fresh & Chilled air of the air Conditioner, Nice, Clean Clothes, Beautiful faces…., wonderful Fragrance of Perfumes, Ice Creams, Food,,,,, I am in the middle Of Richness, Money. I see crores of Rupees being spent on malls every week, I see so much richness, so much money around me ……. But still dealing happily with my own poverty … Wealth & Poverty – Both are 2 sides of the Same Coin - Money
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