It has been raining almost continuously for the last few days.
During the short spell of a drizzle I watch the honey bees over around the flowers in the garden!
It is rare that honey bees compete to feed from the same flower! But that is what I watched the other day as honey is scarce during the season of monsoon. The rain washes away the honey from the flowers! Yet there was no scramble but collaboration that all the bees had got enough!
Our circumstances affect all of us! A friend told me yesterday, how in his neighbourhood there are senior citizens who wait to get a hot meal packet at lunch time. The volunteers who come to distribute them sometimes do not have enough packets as some from the neighbourhood would also arrived that day to collect food.
But, on those days when some do not get a packet, they get a share of the food from those who got a packet! He told me that this sight of those who are hungry wanting to get food has touched him so much that he decided to contribute regularly to the volunteers to bring enough food.
The language of the market economy is competition as policy makers believe that the quality of the products improve when there is competition. But the truth is that those who cannot survive the competition would get eliminated in the process and suffer because of lack of opportunities !
Competition is not the way, but collaboration!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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