I have travelled numerous time on working trips that I have failed to see the qualities of its inhabitants.
My working trips take me to third world countries in south East Asia.
I hailed from a developed, so called "First World Nation" country, which are advance in infrastructure and "quality of life".
It is so fast paced that we lost the basic human touches and empathy for others.
The working trips that I went are so tight with works that I have no time to explore the locality.
Recently, I just took a solo trip to these places, as my personal vacation, that I had the chances to interact with the locals.
I went around to the rural areas, avoiding the big cities and staying mostly in cheap hotels in one pig /cow / goat / chicken towns or home stay in the villages.
The village stay was an impromptu affair. After dark, once they found out that I have no place to spend the night, I was offered the villages common area to bunk in or was invited to their home.
These villages knew the values of treating guest well, with the limited resources that they possessed.
They make sure that I was comfortable with their bare necessities. Honestly, I was more than comfortable. It is not in material sense, but the gestures and treatment.
The small cash token that are given to them, was returned back to me, in form of hearty village meals and merriment.
The sincere and genuine treatments make me so welcome that I cried inside.
They are mostly not from a well to do segment of society, in term of economic wealth.
But they were filthy rich in manners, courtesy towards other and selflessness.
I concurred that hardship in life makes one humble and sincere .
The well to do that never lift a finger to break a sweat, in my bias opinion, treat others with disdained, prejudiced and contempt.
As if those "beneath" them, owe them a living.
My experiences confirmed that if you are willing to serve anyone in any capacity, regardless of your social status or the status of others, you served with sincerity, that acts will make you a much well like person in the long run.
Also, you realised that it make you a much happier person, contented with life, open your heart to humility and importantly, empathy for others.
That is the quality that make us human.
Please bring back the trust to humanities that we are about to lose.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Personal confirmation of humility.
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