“Year of the Farmers”

Vishii Rita Krocha

This sight of fresh, fresh fruits that I see and savor on it frequently, if not everyday, these green vegetables that are good for almost everything, the rice that we consume everyday.......Somebody took the effort to make it convenient for us.

 If there are people who appreciate the four seasons the best, it’s the farmers that I can think of. They anticipate rain when its time and are most delighted when the clouds gather and the skies turn grey. They know just how the sun and the rain work together to give good crops. Mornings when we’d rather sleep longer, farmers are out to take care of their vegetable gardens, paddy fields or their orchards. All year through they work on producing rich harvest, not for themselves alone but for the benefit of everyone.

 It hadn’t really strucked me till I read it somewhere in the paper about declaring 2006 as the year of the farmers that all things work together to make living possible. I think it is a very nice way of honoring them and their selfless service to the nation.
 The contribution of every profession blends together to make life more systematic. A farmer’s profession is equally important as a doctor’s. Just as a doctor would, in times of ill health to his patients, it is the farmers who make it possible for us to delight and savor on all the niceties of good food.

 A cobbler is there to mend out shoes. Nobody does it better than him. A beautician, to take care of our physical well being, a writer, to make us realize the beauty of ordinary things.........In the absence of one, there would be more chaos and more complicated situations. Just as much necessary it is for making life easy, respecting every profession would certainly make our society better.

 A farmer, in his own right holds his profession as the best and its because he enjoys doing it. We are all into professions of our own, learning or practicing it, and as long as we enjoy doing them we would undoubtedly think there would be none more interesting than the kind of thing we are indulged in. And as much as we pride ourselves in our own professions, farmers, sweepers, cobblers, and the like are all honorable jobs. They do things which most people wouldn’t want to.

 It’s about time we learn to acknowledge each other’s work, as the contribution of every profession - big or small makes all the differences. Lets respect all kinds of profession because all things work together to benefit us all and in doing so we’d actually grow and outshine our society.



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