Adding Colors ..!!

After coming into this  professional world, I was really missing my AID works. Truly speaking, that has been a part of my life and my life seems incomplete without it. I was actually longing to visit villages, connect with the people there, know about their problems and also do the best possible thing for them. The wish of doing that almost kept me restless and diverted from my work. I was actually looking for an opportunity when I saw a mail from the Ness Sense team of my company. It's the team in Ness which carries out the tasks incorporated under Corporate Social Responsibility. This again performs in two fields, education and environment. Last Saturday, I joined the Education team for a visit to the village school adopted by Ness to do some painting works there (I hardly had any idea of what we were to do then).

The morning was really cool and the whole environment calm and soothing. The team including Me, Vip, Jahnavi, Shipra, Manpreet, Reanna, Asit, John, Ratheesh (all Nessians) and Reshma and Yuvraj (our visitors) gathered in no time and we all set for the village (Dodabelle). The village was mostly like any other Indian villages, lush green earth, clear sky, thatched houses and kutcha roads. The school looked much better as a place. We all set to work, which was to fill colors to the pictures drawn on the wall, so that the children would enjoy once they come to school after the long Summer Vacation! Within some time, we were all busy painting the walls with the help of Prabhu, who works directly with us and also runs a NGO. Wall painting is quite different from paper/cloth painting and believe me, it's not that easy! A bunch of village children surrounded us and the whole place was crowded with their shouts. Some wanted to paint, some wanted to chat, some wanted to pose in front of the camera, some wanted to volunteer by helping us, while the rest chose to remain silent watchers! The lunch was equally good and we all had a hearty time together. There was excitement within us that we are contributing in some way to our society. The best part was the team work, which we all exhibited really well... everyone helping each other (really important when something of bigger purpose are done)! We also had nice photo sessions with the kids (those are really funny). The task was accomplished successfully and we all returned back happily. That night I slept peacefully after a long time indeed!

There only I had decided to be a part of this team then onwards. Hopefully I get my AID days back, which I miss so much!


Apologizing  doesn't mean that you are wrong and the other person is right... it only means that you value the relationship much more than your ego..!!