Stepping on someone's toes

How many times you have felt that you are stepping on someone's toes? Any how many times it happens with you? I was thinking about this for a while now. It's not necessary that it happens intentionally, but it definitely hurts the other party.

Take a simple example - Let's say you cut the lane from leftmost lane to take a right turn. Other people who are already in the middle or rightmost lane have taken lot of effort to be there in the correct lane so as to take appropriate direction and suddenly you cut them causing lot of inconvinience to all of them. Not just inconvinience but frustration as well. I call this as stepping on their toes. It's real pain.

And we observe similar examples every now and then. Reservations based on caste is another example. People do take lot of effort to score good numbers and then to realize that just because they don't belong to certain castes, they can't study further. This is unfair.

Tax evasion is also an another example. If everyone pays the tax they the overall tax percentage would definitely come down. Currently what happens is, there is less tax compliance, and Govt. anyway needs money, so faithful tax payers end up in paying more tax. On the other side, if there are more tax revenues, more likely, % of tax that individuals have to pay will come down.

Breaking the queue, breakiing the signal, corruption, bypassing the hierarchy.. all these things fall under the same category. Each of these things gives pain to someone else and people who do it either don't realize it or even if they realize, they don't care.

If every person tries to put herself in other person's position, I feel, lot of things would improve.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Nice example. The sad part is, one by one, all the people will soon forget the traffic rules it seems... :)
Mandar Behere said…
Not really, if common people like you and me keep on following it, soon there will be more people who follow traffic rules :)

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