{"id":1035,"date":"2019-12-08T08:08:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T08:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/sibhawprandom\/?p=1035"},"modified":"2019-12-08T08:15:52","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T08:15:52","slug":"lifting-and-leaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2019\/12\/08\/lifting-and-leaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifting and Leaning"},"content":{"rendered":"

These are some verses\u00a0 by the popular poet ‘anonymous’ I came across long before WhatsApp university came into being.\u00a0 Later I came to know from the net that the poem is attributed to Ella Wheeler Wilcox.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Lifting and Leaning<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

There are two kinds of people on earth today,
\nJust two kinds of people, no more, I say.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Not the good and the bad, for \u2019tis well understood<\/span><\/em>
\nThe good are half bad and the bad are half good.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Not the happy and sad, for the swift-flying years<\/span><\/em>
\nBrings each man his laughter and each man his tears.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Not the rich and the poor, for to count a man\u2019s wealth<\/span><\/em>
\nYou must first know the state of his conscience and health.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Not the humble and proud, for in life\u2019s busy span<\/span><\/em>
\nHe who puts on vain airs is not counted a man.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

No! The two kinds of people on earth I mean<\/span><\/em>
\nAre the people who lift and the people who lean.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Wherever you go you will find the world\u2019s masses<\/span><\/em>
\nAre ever divided in just two classes.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

And, strangely enough, you will find, too, I ween,<\/span><\/em>
\nThere is only one lifter to twenty who lean.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

In which class are you? Are you easing the load<\/span><\/em>
\nOf overtaxed lifters who toil down the road?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Or are you a leaner who lets others bear<\/span><\/em>
\nYour portion of worry and labor and care?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

The poet come out with the ratio of 1:20; in the management studies , there is a saying that in any organization , 80 percent of the work is done by 20 percent of people; for those arithmetically challenged , the ratio is one lifter to four leaners. It is only the ratio one can haggle about, not the fact that there are more leaners in this world than lifters.<\/p>\n

Today the division between lifters and learners is more pronounced than ever before. The poem is more figurative than literal, but someone, hale and hearty,\u00a0 who cannot lift his own brief-case can’t be expected take on any kind of\u00a0\u00a0 load of the family or society he is part of. Can he be ?<\/p>\n

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Whenever I spend some time in the airport I never fail to notice that we have a class of people who simply do not want to lift or worse still, do not want to be seen<\/em> lifting<\/strong> anything heavier than a food tray with a coke and a hamburger.<\/p>\n

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Micro suitcases have mega wheels and wheelchairs are\u00a0 ubiquitous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yes, we need to provide mobility to temporarily or permanently\u00a0 disabled and the elderly; but why are these wheel chairs not available at Railway Stations.?When I badly wanted a wheel chair at a Railway Station, I had to collect one from the Station Master’s office after depositing my original Identity Card. Later I had to retrieve my identity card after returning the wheel chair. Of course, at Railway Stations you need to pay the porters for theses services while at the airport, they are free; because air-travellers are entitled ‘ Leaners’.<\/p>\n

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Wheels , Wheels Everywhere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another place I see the stark division of the two classes is in Hospitals. The hospitals are designed on the lines of five star hotels. In one of the leading hospitals, I noticed over 10 different classes of wards from the shared ward\u00a0 for about 2500\/ per day to VIP suite for Rs 25000\/ per day.<\/p>\n

After all everybody needs help at times and has to be wheeled around by his fellow-citizens; but how is it that almost every one who is serving is malnourished and the one who is being served is obese?<\/p>\n

What happens to those arms that have stopped lifting any load ; and those legs that have stopped walking beyond the distance from their cars to the nearest building? The fat deposits increase and the\u00a0 muscles start wasting away and presto ! we do have a solution for that ! Just drive down to a physiotherapist and start a scientifically designed work out on how to regain the strength of these muscles; surprise ! surprise ! ….. that is done by lifting weights that members of this elite class scrupulously avoid in their day to day life. And they walk on treadmills to exercise their ‘unwalking ‘ legs!<\/p>\n

Welcome to the Brave New World!<\/p>\n

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