It was my first day of work and I found something strange!. NOBODY in the office smiled to each other. All faces looked like they were carrying 100kilo bags of hatred and enemity that prevented them to smile.
I 'm normally a happy go lucky kind of girl. I cherish childhood and by God's blessing I have got a bright smile (Birth Defect may be!). I don't like seeing others gloomy nor do I like to sit myself.
I really felt a lot suffocated adjusting to the new atmosphere of unsmiley and rude faces. I just walked around my cabin area. Moved up some shelves here and there . I found a window which was closed for years with a curtain. I pushed the curtain blinds and Opened up the window there came in some sunshine and some breeze. On one corner of a cupboard I found a small plastic pot containing 2 small plastic fishes. One colored orange and another blue. I named the orange my name . I filled in some water in the pot. And removed the rusted batteries on the bottom and put new batteries and there...the fishes began to dance in the water. At one glance; anyone would suspect they were live fishes.
And i kept this pot right in front of me.
The light from the window which was closed for ages and the dancing of the fishes brought some happiness and positivity within me.
The office is visited by suppliers and customers daily.
Every one visiting our entrance counter would be awed by this fish and would smile and ask me many questions..
Wow! its so nice ..? How does it work.!
Its so cute..! Where did u purchase it from.?
One day I forgot to turn it on! The Aramex courrier boy who regularly visits our office said to me:: -**Oh! Mam please turn it On! It looks nice when they are alive and dancing it makes us even feel happy to see them on a tough sunny day. I visit 100's of offices around daily but never have I seen such a beautiful thing.!**** I smiled and replied "sure" and turned it On!
Many of the staffs passing by my cabin started to smile and say wow did we actually have a window over ther??!!!
We have never seen it in our entire lives..
It looks so bright now..!
People started talking smiling whenever they passed by me. I felt good to finally see some smile. Some asked about the fish some about the window.! At least they smiled.
After few months; my boss came out of his cabin and he was searching some documents from a file located beside me.
He said hey you...close that window..you are letting all the flies in!
And he looked at the pot of fishes that were dancing in my table for a moment and he said : It's annoying!!**(those fishes make a tick tock sound).
I was like 😊 and became😢.! I closed the windows and switched off the fishes. They went back to their dead state. And my smile too faded away.....
Now i realized why all the people in this office were looking like bulldog faces.
Because if the person(light) who leads you (manager or management) is bright and smiling; and encouraging we can have a ton of bright ; smiling; positive and energetic followers/team/staff else it will be the other way round!**
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