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I know this person, very closely. Someone, whom I can notice on daily basis, and today I realized something which in all these years, I haven’t paid attention. He has a habit of worry for small things, even if nobody is looking at it or come back to him complaining. But what he can’t do is ignore it. He goes to restaurant either he doesn’t leave food on his plate, or make sure he disposes it; or cleans up his own table to some extent, so that he doesn’t leave behind a big mess for someone else. In India, you will hardly find anyone standing behind zebra crossing, until they are fined for same, but if you see someone doing it without any obligation, isn’t it amazing.

And then I wonder why he does so, why he sees beyond, when most of us feel it’s just not our duty. Isn’t it very simple, just put yourself, in same person position, and feel how he would, on you. May be as easy said, but not done. What may be crossing our minds at times, we go in restaurant, and we pay 4-5 times of actual food cost, because we are also paying for cleanliness, the decorum, the hygiene and for that matters, Service taxes and charges too. So where are we wrong, if we let the others do their job?

Here is what goes, in a waitress mind, when he sees a filthy table, “Oh probably some rich brat, who doesn’t know humans work here, not the animals.” Clean and make arrangement is their job in this case, but a little thought in us can ease their lives so much.

We are not ask to go beyond our limits, just that ½ second of thought that all will matter here.