Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Intellectual

"hmmm...here comes the lad...I was waiting for..."....I said to my mum...

"What took you so long? "

" Do you know I have been waiting since ages for you...?"

I asked the lad a bit rashly....hmmm....and turned to my mum again to make lad's position more uncomfortable and said....

"Whenever I think of going home early...this happens."

Actually...the lad was my brother in law's new...young driver...."working part time"...

....as explained by my brother in law..."he don't need the money he just love my children" ....hmmm...

And today evening because of rain he suppose to pick me up from my mother's house...

My mum....extremely happy to see the young man asked him for a cup of tea...which he accepted heartily....

"hmmm...Mother...why YOU always admire the person..I detest...?"

"Grow up...and make tea for us...."

While making tea I heard the cheerful chatter between my mum and the lad...which boils me with tea...or either milk...

Once I heard that my mum was saying something about today's music and how it gives her headache and him saying something about Atta ullah Khan Essa Khailvee music...may be he loves him....

When I entered the lounge they have started on families....

He had never seen his father....his mother is a senior nurse in a Govt hospital...

He graduated from Govt college...got scholarship....done LLB from UK...now he was going to the LSE to write a doctoral thesis on law and poverty in the third world.

hmmm....

The moral of the event:

It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music.

Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual....

hmmm.....

6 comments:

  1. yes right...especially in this age of Mehengaaai one cannot judge people by their outlook...and people can have different tastes and it does not necessarily depend on their education...nice MORAL btw :)

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  2. Dressing up or grooming up depends on one's income level -
    Yet, the education is something U can always manage to get by raising funds through coaching other student or finding any part time job including driver's job.
    Most important: "Knowledge is power" - once attained, money has to follow you wherever you go. On the contrary, if you happen to be "money hungry" u always end up having the tendency to run after it crazily all your life.

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  3. Education does not show up in dressing it shows up in behavior towards others. Dressing is most of the time a camouflage most of the time concealing the real person:

    Bana ker faqiron ka hum bhaes Ghalib
    tamashe ahle keram deykhte hain

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    is my newest post ==please respond

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  5. Thinking,

    True. One should never judge a person by appearance only. Do so only after interaction.

    Take care

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  6. Dear All....

    Thank you so much for your kind words...

    I am honored.

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