Common Sense

Today morning, when I was on my way to office I had to travel standing in the bus. Few minutes after getting into the bus I found a comfortable place to stand and to rest my foot (I am mentioning this as I have a problem with my leg and resting my foot is important when I stand for long time). It was all fine until an educated idiot entered the bus. Immediately after getting into the bus he came to the place where I was standing and started pushing me slowly and occupied my place. As a short-tempered person, I got irritated pretty soon, but couldn’t say anything as it is a public place and the thing seemed pretty simple and an argument with him would look silly.

But, I wonder why people don’t use at least a minimum amount of common sense when it is must and should. There will be several instances where as a human being we should think of certain basics. If you are in a hurry or in a bad mood or your mental condition isn’t good, all these doesn’t matter to the fellow beings. There is every chance of you being cursed by others.

As a social animal, I think we should follow certain basics of manners or behavior whatever it may be, so that we do not break into the comfort zone of others and disturb them. Before doing such things, we should just spend few seconds to put ourselves in their shoes and think. There will be many places and situations where in we should be very careful with our behavior.

It’s not just office spaces, meeting rooms, conference calls, parties, dais or some other formal places, where we should have manners or decent behavior. Everything else seems to be silly or quite general to be so careful or so decent about, but they are equally important. We generally do not care about the other stuff coz we don’t repeatedly deal with those people who we disturb in buses or trains or near elevators or bus stops or queues or many other public places.

Sometimes, I too behave in this weird kind of way. I am writing this not to educate all of you about these things. We know all these basics, but we don’t bother about them coz we don’t get anything out of them. I request all of you to think on this and react accordingly from the next time whenever you are in public. Many of us might be already following the basics, so this is for those who are too busy to think about these simple but important things.

Note: Common Sense is the most common thing that we should use in our daily routine. Let’s not ignore it even in simple occasions.