The other day I was coming home from work and it was raining. It was too little like a sprinkler in agricultural land spraying water. Since the rain was too low, I was walking home with the usual speed, earphones plugged in, operating mobile, looking out here and there and while I was busy in that, a notification popped up on the mobile screen and it was a photo from my friend all the way from Nevada, United States which is like lowest rainfall place in there. As I was scrolling through the pictures, my mobile screen was little drenched in the little rainfall and it felt awesome to see it. A low and cool rainfall on the lowest rainfall place in the US, so i thought it would be a good interaction to send him the screenshot of rainfall on Nevada. So, I took the screenshot and there wasn't any water dripping on it and I felt so stupid to witness that. I'm not super intelligent, but i remember all the MIS Codes of a jewel loan, SHG loan and staff festival advance, so i think I am something. But it felt so stupid that I tried to screenshot the rain drops on my mobile using screenshot. Not my proudest moment, but said ayyoo devaa and moved on.
Moving on, at work the next day, I was at my usual stuff, at cash counter, I stood up to drink water and I saw this little girl, some 6 year probably, all dressed up in a silk dress or something i don't know what they call it, anyway, she was glowing like a Diya on deepavali festival. Just by the look of it and on the ornaments she wore, i estimated the gross income of the family, schemes that we can canvas to her parents, sukanya samruddhi account in her name, maturity amount of it if they save ₹500 per month and so on. I sat down to continue the work, her mother was at cash counter, and she enquired about fixed deposit for her daughter's education purpose in future. I explained few short and long term schemes and such. I stood up again to give interest rate Excel and maturity amount chart prepared by officer which would help them understand the scheme in a easy and better way. While we were in the middle of that, her daughter, who was in full enjoyment mode eating her chips from packet, giggling and all, suddenly became quite upset and she got up from her seat, struggled to get down from her chair and on to floor and ran few steps and hugged her. For a few seconds I couldn't realise what just happened I realised a important lesson that day. A banker me was in calculator mode thinking of business I can bring to the bank. A parent like the woman was thinking of reducing difficulties in her daughter's future life, by saving regularly to make her tomorrow better. But the little girl was right, she was living in the moment, she enjoyed every piece of chip she ate, laughed and giggled at everyone who waved hands at her, and when the chips were over, she immediately ran to her mother because she didn't want anything else. She tore down my world of materialism and taught me life sometimes is very simple having fun while we're in this world and always be closer to our loved ones. I mean I'm not saying one shouldn't save for their future etc. While I was thinking in future and the mother was stuck in past about difficulties faced by her and thinking about how to reduce the toughness of her daughter life, the daughter was pretty straight forward, she lived in the moment, she danced in the rain while we elders were running for the shelter because we can't afford to get sick and unable to show up for work the next day. It's important to take yesterday's lessons to better manage tomorrow, but for today, let's live a little, an insight I got from that kid will stay for many more rain years.
