Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him
Albert Schweitzer
The other day I was on my evening walk. On the platform I saw an old executive swirl chair discarded by someone. This is my usual walking route and I saw the swirl chair remaining there without anyone taking it away. One day the corporation people came and took it away as garbage!
This reminded me the issue of becoming an unwanted person in the society. The society can be anything, from our family to the place we work. Mother Teresa once said that the most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved. The same thing applies to being unwanted.
The unwanted swirl chair is a powerful life metaphor. Many of us are self focused and keen to enrich ourselves. We seek the help of others and will be happy to be helped. But we need to constantly focus on the needs of others and think how we can be useful to them. We need to have something to offer to others at any point of time. We need to enrich others’ life through what we have to offer to them.
On the day we have nothing to offer, that day we will be discarded!
Let us not become that swirl chair!
N C Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com
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