The lesson my dad taught me

                                                    Many people have commented that i am not a typical doctor . Yes , so many people that i have lost count . No, its not because nowadays its my job is in teaching doctors and ct technologists and my job involves a mixture of radiology and physics and computer software .  Thats a point for another blog . But right from the day i passed MBBS through my radiology postgraduate days and even in my radiology practice days my friends and even new aquaintances told me i am not the typical doctor .  Curious i am , i ask them whats different .  They describe me that there is absolutely no ego feel when i interact with them . Irrespective of their status be it the peon in medical college calicut or my colleague in radiology i interact just as a friend should . Though i dont claim to be unique in this or that any of my doctor friends were unfriendly to peons (they were all nice characters ) , on observation i found that they were correct .  I used to deal with everyone  without any ego .

Recently only i found out why i am like i am . Its not because i had extra lessons in human equality at school or because i read great mens books on human equality or because i was the best human beings on earth ( I am just like anyone else ) . Except for one teacher i had in Calicut i didnt have any external role model for this trait  . And that role model was surprisingly my father .

Recently i saw him playing for hours with our maids kid . There is nothing great in that afterall its a kid . But  he played with it  just like playing with  my sisters twin kids without  even one percentage difference . The same attitude is also shown to anyone he interacts with . Be it the corporate CEO or the peon at the company he interacts with all of them with the same friendly attitude with not even an inkling that he is an engineer , belongs to a big family etc etc .  And in my life i have seen so many people who are the opposite , who change their behaviour faster than the chameleon when dealing with different kind of people ... depending on their status ,wealth ,religion etc . Recently again , i asked him why he is behaving like this .  His answer was simple . It is fate that determined that the maids kid was born as the maids kid and my sisters kid to be born as my sisters kids . So why there should be any difference in dealing with them differently . They are all equal in the eyes of God and me have no right to discriminate between anyone .

Coming back to me , unconsciously imitating my father in this trait , i never had any regrets . On the contrary i had more love and respect from many just because i dealt with them equally . Last but not the least , the best seafood in kerala was  available in Calicut was not had from any doctors or engineers home or from the best hotels of Calicut  , but from the peons who worked at Calicut .And the best meat dishes also from the ct technologists at calicut . Being a foodie i take it as their acceptance of me in inviting me to their home .

Disclaimer  :  They had nothing to gain from me as i was just a provisional tutor there with no adminitsrative powers . 

To sum up , though not a communist or a hyperreligious fanatic , my dad unconsciously taught me the true virtue of being human .... treat others equally . Thanks Appa (Dad...in tamil )