First among equals
Today I had to visit one of Mumbai's largest hospitals and while there I had an epiphany.
Every single one of us thinks we are special, the law is for everyone else except us.
Here's what happened
While I was there, a beat up Maruti van came in, and the people who were in it jumped out and started to bang on my rear boot wanting me to move my car. Bang Bang bang…….I got the shock of my life.
Now remember this was while a patient was getting out of my car to enter the emergency room. My patient had one foot out of the door and was just about to exit.
When I gathered my wits , first thought I had was ….what made them think that their patient was more important than mine ?
After the patient and all the passengers got off, the same Maruti van , immediately parked across the ramp, saying "ek minute, patient ko leke aaaya hai" to the security guard who asked him to move. (One minute I've brought the patient).
The passengers had all gone off, it was just the driver who was in the van. For a few seconds I could not understand why he couldn't drive out of the compound like me to decently park in the car park to wait for the passengers to come back.
That's when it hit me, in his mind the driver was doing nothing wrong….…
My mind flashed back to a story my sister once told me. She was waiting for in the office for her credit card. She had to step out to give her kids lunch , so she asked her office assistant to take the card for her.
When the courier arrived naturally he asked to see her or her blood relative
Her office assistant told the courier boy that they did a lot of business with the company, he then bulldozed the delivery person by saying she was someone he had met many times.
In his eagerness to keep her happy since she pulled rank, the courier boy agreed and left the card with the assistant without physically meeting her. The point here is, she in her position as the head of the company pulled rank on a poor courier boy.
WE ALL BEND THE RULES WHEN IT SUITS US AND THINK ITS OK.
If a common man can get a credit card without an id, imagine what a politician can get away with ? How can you blame an IG for recommending a passport for his friend or a PM turning a blind eye when A Raja does some favours for a telecom company ?
Before we go pointing fingers at people, abusing them for misusing their powers, before we scream outrage at the overlooking of the rules which allowed 10 terrorists to come into Mumbai and wreak havoc, lets just take a moment to think how many times a day we pull rank to bend the rules for the petty works we do.
How many times a day we say "janta nahin mai kaun hoon ?" ( Dont you know who I am ?)
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