There are times when you learn a lot from the stories spreading around you. The only important thing is, keep your senses open for the happenings and you could be able to pick stories around you and the learning incorporated in it. The same thing has happened today. The story goes like this:-
I am generally a very lazy guy. I do not act upon unless it costs me the life. This is because I am a bit careless about myself. But this implies only about my personal life and I am not much careless about my professional or social life. Since long I was finding that I was falling thin in my wardrobe and I seriously needed some good clothing for myself. But because of my seer laziness, I was just trying to push this requirement for every passing next day. And then it started affecting me in a way that every morning after bath, I was literally searching for some good cloth to wear in my wardrobe. Finally I decided to purchase some good cloth to avoid this morning hassle of mine. So I went to one of the big store of Raipur and purchased some clothes. There was this store boy who was helping me find suitable clothes for me. His name was Gopal. After I finished purchasing clothes, he suggested me to give these clothes for stitching in the showroom only as they were providing their customers the facilities of tailors also. I owned his suggestion but with a condition that I need all these cloths after a week. He committed that he will take follow up with the in-house tailor and would deliver the apparels on the stipulated time.
After a week, on the given date, I reached the store to ask for my clothes. That same guy took the bills from me and went to the in-house tailoring factory upstairs and came down in 10 minutes saying that he is sorry that he could not be able to fulfill his commitment of delivering the clothes on time as some of the finishing work is still pending. I just lost my temper and vehement over him as if he could not be able to fulfill his commitment than why the hell on earth had he committed? This was Saturday and on Sunday this showroom remains close. So I would have to wait until Monday to get the stuff delivered. When he saw me loosing my forbearance, he said that he would request his tailor to finish the work by Sunday and he himself would come to my house to deliver the clothes. I knew that this guy is still making a mendacious statement and he is saying so just to console me. Things were not in my hand, so I left the store after giving him my address.
To the surprise of my life, I got a call of Gopal on Sunday morning. He said that it would take another 15 minutes to finish the work and latest by an hour he would visit my house with the clothes. Exactly after an hour, I got a knock on my door. I opened the door and saw this tall and smart guy Gopal. He was carrying two packets having all my clothes. This was one of the happiest moments of my life. Not because I got all my clothes, but because of the fact that this man had finally fulfilled his commitment screwing his Sunday, just for the sake that he should bring a smile over my face and most importantly to avoid any thought in me that Gopal is a guy who don’t know keeping promises. I was overwhelmed. Man you’re this small gesture had really brought a good smile over not only my face but my heart even. I said Thank You to him and after getting this big Thank You, he really felt very happy. He just turned around, kept both his hands in his pant pockets, held his head high and moved away as if he actually had won a battle and now going proudly into his house back.
What I liked the most is not that he brought my clothes, but the fact that this guy knew that though he didn’t have fulfilled his commitment on time but still did not have taken much time to finish the task. Though it cost him his week end for which now he would have to wait for another week time.
Every one of us is facing such situation in our life when we makes some commitment to someone but could not be able to fulfill due to some involuntary or intangible hurdles. But what is most important is that how fast we overcome the hurdles and take decisions fast to make the task finished without further delaying it. This is not to show the world that see I am almost well on time but to tell our own inner soul that this is what I am.
A big learning for me. Thanks Gopal for the clothes and for this lesson as well.
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