Let me ask you the typical question... do you think you have it all or do you think you need more? I am really not much of a philosopher but one particular conversation between me and my baby's maalish bai whom we call maushi really jolted me and made me think.
As she likes to say, she stays in the better part of the slum area behind our building. While going about her job, she was telling me about her life and her life changing experiences... 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys, all graduates, a couple of them married ... she said 'only i remember how we raised 4 children and educated them inspite of the poverty we had. Clothes, water and even food was limited to help save for the books and fees. But we knew education was the answer to live a better life and we did all we could for all 4 children. Today all of them have office work and we live a good life - today we have a room made of bricks, have a bulb at home and I cook on a stove! Now we are financially good too!' In her marathi words 'ata aamchi paristithi changli ahe'
... she sees the better life of so many homes where she works, but she still feels she lives a good life in her own right. It truly is appreciable!
Thursday, April 2, 2009
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