Carry your own weight. Literally!

I meant to write this post last week, but the thought put me off! Well here it goes.

 

Well amongst the many things that I find stupid, is the following :

 

Sunday afternoon, shopping mall, high street……………….Young and perfectly healthy couple enjoying themselves, and next to them or behind, a maid [caretaker/ nanny] carrying their toddler. I think it is really stupid.

 

For fucks sake, these maids can never care for your child they way you would. They only stop to tell the child “don’t sit here, don’t touch that” when they notice its getting a little too much, that’s because they treat it like a job , and have better things to do on THEIR DAY OUT OF THE HOUSE!!!.

 

They will never tell the child why he / she should not touch something , not pick his nose, not try and stuff his mouth with …….. they won’t tell the child what to do in such cases.

 

Some times the maid herself is just 16 or 17, how the hell do you expect someone of that age to manage a toddler!!!

 

Why the hell do young parents need to employ someone to ‘carry’, ok more than that, well watch over their kids when they are around.

 

Its sad,  but what values are these people inculcating their kids with. Wonder if that’s how they were brought up! I doubt it.

 

All this makes me wonder where our society is heading, yeah yeah I know there are lots of social scientists out there trying to figure this out. But this tells me a lot about people.

 

[and yes , there are exceptions and some maids / nanny / cartakers that really do take amazing care of kids , while their parents shop, but they are few].

Smart ideas aren’t always good ideas ; They’re STUPID

 

 

I’ve been hearing this phrase a lot lately “drink more water”. Friends saying this while advising someone sick or a guest speaker on the radio that wants people to live a ‘healthy’ life. The worst is when you pay a doctor Rs 1000 consultancy fees and while leaving he / she says “nothing serious, just drink more water”

 

People don’t say “drink lots of water”. I would be ok if they said that, instead the phrase is “drink MORE water”, which means people already believe they are drinking less water compared to earlier times. Hmmmmmmmm.

 

Sad , something so basic , and that’s when lots of lifestyle illnesses are on the increase, ironical I would say – its in the country that gave the world yoga and Ayurveda! 

 

Well why would people be drinking less water is what started to bother me, are we drinking more Coke or Pepsi, well not really. I think most of us Indians know water is water not coke, well at least till now!

 

I though about it, and well its sad.

 

Most people drink water at work, since we spend half the day at work, earlier people drank water directly from the water filter / cooler, but now everyone seems to be drinking water from the water dispenser. So you’re wondering whats wrong in that?  We here it goes.

 

Coffee / tea / soup / water amount to huge over head costs for companies. Some smart ass admin managers noticed that people waste coffee and tea and well got the size of the plastic cups reduced.

 

And guess what a majority of us drink water from reduced plastic cups. That means only 1 ½ gulps of water compared to the normal 4 you would get from a tumbler.

 

This is fucking sad.

 

So next time one of you smart admin managers get a bright idea, keep it to yourself.