I Love India And Indian Culture
Letter to India-
It has become known to me from acquaintances from India, that there is such a thing as “servants” there. Having grown up most of my life in America, that label bothers me. I have heard of maids, in this country as well as in my native country in South America. What I dislike is the stigma that is placed on someone who is a maid. Being a maid requires self-less ness, therefore it is an occupation that requires much heart and humility. I can gather that all jobs require a surrender of self to the boss or customers. I understand that it is hard work, that it gets stressful, annoying, and that you should be paid more. A maid should be all the more respected for their hard work and burdensome job that no one honestly wants to do. Although I resent the way maids are treated at times, at least they aren’t seen as “servants”.
People pay thousands of dollars for a University to grant them the ability to stay away from cleaning and building, to instead be behind a computer convincing people why they need to buy their product or service. Or perhaps drawing up blueprints from their imagination never knowing what it is to actually build a structure. Business men and entrepreneurs proudly boasting about their profits made while using human beings to do the hard work that they don’t want to do while paying them less. Why are we unaware of the humanity in all of us? Why is earning the dollar more important than how we value others and make them feel, as they are doing the hard labor?
Why don’t we all pitch in and take turns building, cleaning, and working together so human beings stop being treated as “less than” based on money, threats, or incentives? Is that all this life is, a business? “How can we make money? How can we sell our product or service to make money? How can we promise a robot out of a human after we are done with them, simply nodding their head and following instruction?” Is that all there is to this life people? Do what others want and be “loved”, or refuse to be molded and be hated?
I ask you that question. May these words reach the country of India so that they start treating the human beings in their homes that they call “servants” as real people deserving of respect and consideration.
My name is Andrea Theis and may my words cross countries and continents to make the difference I wish to see in this world none of us chose to exist in. A world where we are all forced to adapt to a body, mind, world, and ways of the world none of us chose in the first place but where manipulated through rewards and punishment to become pleasing, productive, and harmless (I.e. convenient) in order to be “wanted”, although humans are never truly pleased, because we are all trapped. Trapped in this reality with apparent options, apparent forced upon options placed before us in the search of survival and avoidance of even more pain.
It has become known to me from acquaintances from India, that there is such a thing as “servants” there. Having grown up most of my life in America, that label bothers me. I have heard of maids, in this country as well as in my native country in South America. What I dislike is the stigma that is placed on someone who is a maid. Being a maid requires self-less ness, therefore it is an occupation that requires much heart and humility. I can gather that all jobs require a surrender of self to the boss or customers. I understand that it is hard work, that it gets stressful, annoying, and that you should be paid more. A maid should be all the more respected for their hard work and burdensome job that no one honestly wants to do. Although I resent the way maids are treated at times, at least they aren’t seen as “servants”.
People pay thousands of dollars for a University to grant them the ability to stay away from cleaning and building, to instead be behind a computer convincing people why they need to buy their product or service. Or perhaps drawing up blueprints from their imagination never knowing what it is to actually build a structure. Business men and entrepreneurs proudly boasting about their profits made while using human beings to do the hard work that they don’t want to do while paying them less. Why are we unaware of the humanity in all of us? Why is earning the dollar more important than how we value others and make them feel, as they are doing the hard labor?
Why don’t we all pitch in and take turns building, cleaning, and working together so human beings stop being treated as “less than” based on money, threats, or incentives? Is that all this life is, a business? “How can we make money? How can we sell our product or service to make money? How can we promise a robot out of a human after we are done with them, simply nodding their head and following instruction?” Is that all there is to this life people? Do what others want and be “loved”, or refuse to be molded and be hated?
I ask you that question. May these words reach the country of India so that they start treating the human beings in their homes that they call “servants” as real people deserving of respect and consideration.
My name is Andrea Theis and may my words cross countries and continents to make the difference I wish to see in this world none of us chose to exist in. A world where we are all forced to adapt to a body, mind, world, and ways of the world none of us chose in the first place but where manipulated through rewards and punishment to become pleasing, productive, and harmless (I.e. convenient) in order to be “wanted”, although humans are never truly pleased, because we are all trapped. Trapped in this reality with apparent options, apparent forced upon options placed before us in the search of survival and avoidance of even more pain.
31-35, F
