Saturday 1 June 2013

Beehive and bees

May it be drivers or construction workers or mechanics or teachers or policemen, all workers live extraordinary lives. Each day had to be inspired by thought of how their activity will contribute to their own survival  while fulfilling the duties of their profession. the busy bee life of workers goes to show how men has come to cooperate with one another while dividing work and make civilisation possible.At the same time it has made life a routine business of repetitive work, sapping away energy. In other words, life if a worker is made to look negligible while the general good is the only visible reality. The beehive is visible while the activity or duty of each bee is not seen. While people are like worker bees,honey which is the product of the beehive is the profits which government makes from them. So the worker bees go on and on collecting honey from flowers, bringing them to the hive to store them carefully. The worker bees die off while doing their duty of collecting honey; and they never live to be old.....They never take rest...The human worker also works and dies before he lives to see the fruits of his labour. Is this it? We can be better than a bee society.One of our young elected leaders had used this comparison and had said that we must be workers like the bees; but this had created hatred among those who had heard it. He wants Indians to work like the bees; but it is a very mean comparison. Humans can create a better society with compassion and love. Our working lives are not like bee's lives.

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