Aamir Khan,
Madhuri Dixit, Amitabh Bachchan, and ofcourse not to forget the bollywood
baadshah Shahrukh Khan; they are all heroic figures to atleast a million
people! Few of us even worship them, celebrate their birthdays, and go mad to
get a glimpse of these sitaare zameen par! Like all others, I also admire these
actors but not to a point that makes me go crazy. I admire them because I like
their acting skills. But, unlike a crazy teenage fan, now reason for my
admiration has changed from looking them as stars to looking them as workers doing
their job!
Once I got
to listen to an Art of Living preacher; the words which stayed in my mind were “everyone
and everyone’s job is equally important in this world; noone or no job can be put
above the other”; if sweepers are considered quite low in society then just
imagine what difficult situation can arise if all the sweeper’s in this world
goes on a week’s strike; it could lead to some pandemic kind of situation! I
know that still we would talk about the superiority of professionals like
doctors or for some of us the priests, both of which are worshipped, atleast in
India! But are we not aware of the greedy doctors involved in organ thefts or
so called great preacher cum rapist Babas!
I guess one
shouldn’t be assessed by what profession one belongs to but by how good one
does in his/her respective field. In every profession, there are some people
who excel, some mediocres and some who bring bad names! In this context, for me
every single person is a hero if (s)he does good in his respective field; be it
a scientist, a sweeper, a driver or a doctor!
