NEGLECT

I find some of my friends after retirement engaged in certain activities just as they were engaged during their career. In one of the visits to my friends house my friend his wife and myself were discussing after lunch. My friend very happily informed that he is not finding any difference on post retirement as he regularly visits his native place which is nearer to Chennai once in two days and meet his relatives and also concentrating on the agricultural activities which he was unable to involve. During his service as an executing in our bank his relatives were looking into these activitis. His only son is very much engaged with his job and seldom comes out of his room looking only at the laptop. He will be reluctantly coming out to take his food after prolonged calls from his mother. The only soul in the house who cares for these persons and appears to have been not valued is my friends wife. When the discussion reached a point where everybody were talking about their commitment the lady informed that no body is considering her as a human being and seldom care for her emotions.She continued saying that her husband is busy with the new job role and the son is very busy in his own activities. She was expecting that after retirement she will be going around for some places of interest and also will be attending most of the social functions both in the family and in the society which she was deprived during the services of her husband. But since her husband is very busy after retirement he finds no time to engage her in her wish and also due to his age he becomes more tired when returning from the work. She in fact could not control her emotions and informed that she is regularly crying for her plight as both the persons in the house are not caring for her emotions. The friend was not at all aware of the feelings of his wife and had taken for granted all her actions as endorsement to his new life style also. His son of course may not be able to understand this as being a young man may be more concerned about this career and life. My friend was surprised on the revelation of his wife. He said it was an eye opener to him. He later informed me that he will have to take care of her and at least he should take her out once in a week and a tour outside once in one or two months. I was very happy on the decision of my friend. When I contacted my friend two months later for some other reason, casually I asked him what are the places he visited during the past two months, he smiled and said yes yes I have to take my wife out. Hope the lady is still neglected.

Every one has their own difficulties.

Everyone has their own difficulties. A week back I was walking in Brindawan street to reach my home. Suddenly the sound of two Strong Men made me turn and look at the auto rickshaw.The two thuds were pushing a fat elderly man into an auto rickshaw. The old man has drunk upto the neck. The thuds are instructing the auto driver to drop him at his residence which is not known to anybody. The auto driver was very reluctant to hear the instructions. However he is obliged to obey the same. The old man was not coherent in his remembering the address.The auto driver told some place after carefully hearing the description gave by the person.. At once he burst into laughter and said a kilo gram of sugar has to be put in the drivers mouth for correctly guessing his residence. The joy was short lived when once again the old man said a place which is diagonally opposite to the place mentioned by the auto driver. As the road is a very busy one and the auto cannot afford to stand more than 2-3 minutes, he started the vehicle only to stop at the end of the road.This time some loud sound from the auto driver to the occupant who refused to get down as he is entitled to be taken to his residence. All on a sudden a small crowd gathered and wanted to guess the place he wants to go. The auto driver was cursing his fate with this man inside. Finally one person in the crowd could identify this old man and said daily this is the practice of this man to reach his house by not paying any auto fare. I felt regretted for the auto rickshaw driver's plight. Whenever they carry people who had taken too much of drinks this is the problem. Once my car driver who was driving auto rickshaw earlier informed me of one incident. A decent person entered his auto. On the way he wanted to purchase some liquor. After purchasing the same he started drinking in the auto. By the time he reached his home he went straight to his house without settling the bill. Poor fellow went and pressed the calling bell of the house only to see a lady opening the door. She said the man is her husband and he had directly went to the bedroom and started sleeping. When the auto driver was demanding money she coolly replied that she cannanot pay anything as she is not aware from where he travelled and told him to come on the next day to collect the fare. He went on the next day only to be informed that the person had left to office and will come only in the evening. It took more than 2 days for him to collect the amount with much difficulty. Every profession has got its own difficulties.