Salute the institution called the indian army

As I was driving down to the office today. Just a few blocks away I noticed two of my collegues walking on the other side of the road. So I thought I'll pick them up and we can all go to office in my car. As I crossed the road they vanished somewhere in the crowd. My eyes searching for them, and not realising that I was turning without looking and then came a bang. I had crashed my car into someones side. The bumper of the other car came out slightly from one end. And then I thought that probably I was doomed.

It was yesterday only that I was reading about cases how such accidents lead to cases of road rash and probably even hospitalisation. The driver came out of the car to look at the damages. He was actually smiling. I realised why he was smiling, he was not the owner, the owner came out now as well. Since my car was stranded right in the middle of the road, I gestured to the owner that I am gonna park my car and then we can talk. Oh boy i thought....the owner came towards me and asked me if I was new to driving and then I apologised. After that all he asked was where do I stay and what was my father's name. On replying the questions he told me his name and that he too was a Brig. in the army just like my father. I enquired about the damages but he said it was okay and asked me to be more careful in the future, as i may get hurt.

I was like wow what happened back there. As I was driving to my office then I began thinking why in this money hungry world would a person become generous enough to let a young boy like me walk away like this. I came up with two explanations. One, probably he was in the later years of his life and money was not all that important to him or probably he was just in a very genereous mood. Two, it was probably because of the ARMY sticker at the back of my car. And then I thought the second reason sounded more reasonable. Man, this really showcases one characterisitics of the officers of the Indian Army, they really treat each other as a family. They love and respect the rests of its members. I am not sure if such a kind of relationship will ever exist in any other organisation.

I SALUTE THE INDIAN ARMY.

Friends??

Here's a situation:-

You have passed out from college about 10 months back and then one day you get a call from one of your old batchmates(who by the way flunked an year and is still in college). And what does he say? "Hey i will be coming back from my home and am planning to stop over at your town for about a couple of days and we'll do party."

Sounds great, old friends meeting and having a good time. Now there's another side to it. He also says that since he's not informing his parents about his stopover at my place, so i would have to get him a ticket. I buy a ticket for him. He stays over at my place, eats and drinks merrily at my expense. And guess what he ain;t that good a friend of mine either. Was one of the first ones to mock me during my stay in college. Always tryin to dupe people by taking loans from them and having no intention of returning them. And the way he expects me to "buy" him a ticket as if I owe him something. Wooooh.... some guys sure have balls. He expects me to do all this stuff, reason: he flunked an year and now I am earning and have a bank account that will make a native of a third world african country laugh with misery.

How am I supposed to respond to such guys....the world is full of such bastards...Balls to you dude you can suck my balls.

Grab what's yours!!!

Well don't you think I am right in this aspect. Am I being too selfish here?? Thw world will snath you whatever you got if you don't keep a grip on it. Take for example, the project i am working on, there are about three of us out of eleven who have worked their asses off. And one of them was not quite a worker in the eyes of our team leader hance he got fairly lesser grading then the two of us. My theory is whenever I do work I make it a point that I get the result. No use of doing work that will not lead to any outcome, wherther profit or loss is a different question all together.



That's why I say take grab what you deserve rather than watching people walk away with your prize. You may call it being selfish i call it being smart. The world will not keep things in front of you in a platter....you have to grab a plate and serve it yourselves.