Dear All,
This is my first blog....please bear with me on this.
Your valuable suggestions are always welcomed.
"It was having lunch this afternoon, just like any usual day. Since today I was alone at lunch and have no one with me to talk to. There were so many thoughts were running in mind. Suddenly one thought come in to my mind that I no longer have to pay the tip in this restaurant to the waiter because its small place with no high expectations neither from customer or from the restaurant owner.
But suppose for an instance if it is been posh high end class famous restaurant of city, It would have been more difficult to decide the tip amount we should give than to what should order for luncn or dinner in that place. We would easily give extra tip to waiter serving alcohal in a pub or party just make our order quick. We would not re-think to give big, small, tip amounts in these scenarios.
Point here I want to make is that, when we don't think much to give away tips in restaurants, pubs & parties. Why suddenly we become so much conservative when we had to give just coins to a beggar, when we have to donate small amounts in temples. We will think twice, thrice or number of times while giving coins to beggar or while making donations as to do this act or not.Many times we may end up just ignoring them, avoid them. I am also part of same community and wont deny to the fact that YES I also pusses the same mentality to certain extent. "
I want to ask this question to myself and to all, that.....
This is my first blog....please bear with me on this.
Your valuable suggestions are always welcomed.
"It was having lunch this afternoon, just like any usual day. Since today I was alone at lunch and have no one with me to talk to. There were so many thoughts were running in mind. Suddenly one thought come in to my mind that I no longer have to pay the tip in this restaurant to the waiter because its small place with no high expectations neither from customer or from the restaurant owner.
But suppose for an instance if it is been posh high end class famous restaurant of city, It would have been more difficult to decide the tip amount we should give than to what should order for luncn or dinner in that place. We would easily give extra tip to waiter serving alcohal in a pub or party just make our order quick. We would not re-think to give big, small, tip amounts in these scenarios.
Point here I want to make is that, when we don't think much to give away tips in restaurants, pubs & parties. Why suddenly we become so much conservative when we had to give just coins to a beggar, when we have to donate small amounts in temples. We will think twice, thrice or number of times while giving coins to beggar or while making donations as to do this act or not.Many times we may end up just ignoring them, avoid them. I am also part of same community and wont deny to the fact that YES I also pusses the same mentality to certain extent. "
I want to ask this question to myself and to all, that.....
- Why we are living with these conservative mind sets ?
- Why we follow double standards?
- Why we have become so selfish to ignore others concerns....?
As much as I agree that most of us are not concerned too much with others' happiness and stuff, I'd also say that we calculate the tip in restaurants as *some* percentage of the final amount. As long as we're not able to calculate the *final amount* in case of beggars and temples, most of us won't bother to *tip* them. We're afraid of complexities...
ReplyDeleteAs much as we owe the whole planet in shaping our life and stuff, I, somewhere deep down, believe that the first and foremost obligation I have is towards making my own life worth it. T.N. Seshan, one of the best CECs we've ever had once said about the sycophancy allegations against him, "To be able to change the world, you should, first of all, be able to stand in a position from where you can do so!" Just a point of view... ;-)