IPhone, Instagram and Water

It was mid April when the world seemed to have come to a standstill. There were reports of new covid cases, more deaths, more dirty politics surrounding the miserable life of everyone in this world. If you honestly feel that your life is perfect, then please watch the news. In a minute you will feel as miserable as a pig for slaughter. 

It was that time when I first saw him. His appearance seemed to be like a perfect stud! He had earphones on everytime and he dressed in perfect street fashion - a three quarter pants and a Led Zeppelin T-shirt (I am a huge Zoso fan, yet I don't have a T-shirt). He was responsible for providing me with the elixir of life - Water! Yes, he was the water supply guy, the one who climbed up to my 2nd floor apartment with a huge 20 litre container of pure and packaged Bisleri. His name is Nikhil or Nick on Instagram. 

He was someone who was unpertubed about the surrounding state of the world and maybe he was concerned for the people living in my area. If you need water, he was just a call away starting 7am till 11pm. I sometimes wondered how many of those heavy containers he lifted throughout the day! If you find this just hard work then I would disagree with you entirely. Its not just hard work, he ensured that you get clean drinking water throughout the lockdown. Water supply was considered an essential service and with the amount of people staying at home that time the consumption of water certainly had risen to a huge level that essentially meant that his heavy lifting had definitely grown to a large extent. Yet he was in his usual casual manner, listening to LedZep and delivering the containers and occassionally posting a pic on Instagram. He is a young chap around 22-23 years old and uses an iPhone 7. When asked he told 'This is the only entertainment source I have, because what I do is an extremely mundane job. And I had started saving for the last 2 years to buy an apple iPhone' 

I saw him loads of times sitting in the small bench below my apartment and having his lunch packed in a steel tiffin box. He said 'The flavour in the food cooked by your mother has no alternative'. That's true though. I have never seen him taking a leave or ever saying no to delivery. He promises a certain time and delivers it in that time frame. After speaking to him at length he said that he doesn't want to pursue education because he feels that being a businessman is what he wants to be in life. 

All set and done, he is doing a good deed and a very noble work indeed. He is providing us with the main ingredient for life sustenance - Water. He is doing what I know is an Act of Random Kindness.