I watched these tow workmen through a 400 mm telephoto lens about three hundred meters away working in the field, probably preparing the bed for planting tapioca.
These are daily wage earners, who live below teh subsistence level as most of them get jobs only for a few days in a week. Most of them have no health insurance, educational allowance for their children or any form of accident insurance or pension.
Most local governments seem to be focussing on this unskilled workforce, whose wellness has become the focus of the political parties too.
During the fifteen minutes I observed them, they worked and rested in between. They know the measure of their energy and know the rhythm to keep going till evening without getting exhausted.
Some of my medical colleagues know no rest of this nature as they have a 18 hours of working schedule. No wonder that they treat in a hurry with little interest beyond to make it as a healing experience for patients.
I heard form a senior colleagues that some doctors drown their tiredness with addictive substances and live reduced lives without much social dimension to their lives.
Work is service; work is obligation; work is a way of living connected with others; work is worship; work is a means to grow; work gives us returns of pay and benefits, work gives social standing...
Above all, work expresses our humanity of relationships!
M.C.Mathew (text and photo)
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