Did anyone notice the painters? My best guess is that they did - the inconveniences caused by the painting work in progress. Crude scaffold all the way to the top of the building. The flakes of old paint just pressure-stripped a day before. Risking life and limb, they paint so we have a structure to show off.
Or the sweepers/cleaners? Do we give disapproving look at them for sweeping their weathered broom a little too near our Midas-inherited feet?
These people don't put on their best clothes complete with a tie nor do they wear the best smelling perfume. The have a face but without a name to go with it; much less a prefix to their name. Some are addressed as, "Oi!" or "Hey!". To these men and women, their job is their responsibility and they do it wholeheartedly. Meticulously.
So, my thanks and my prayers to them. That their hard work will be richly rewarded in due time. And I'm sure they'd better appreciate food and every other things they possess.
The sad reality that society only places far too much importance on people who wears a tie, dress in a coat; where underneath it all he/she might be a loathsome human without any life value.
ReplyDeleteI had noticed too many times how the rich or well-to-do (i assumed they are) left so much uneaten food on the table. I like to think that only in peacetime could they do that.
Oh well, it will always be like that but it's heartwarming to see some who say their thank you to the workers in the public washroom. Or a smile to the contract cleaners.
ReplyDeleteGuess in that way, some are trying to strike a balance in an otherwise overbearing society.