Together we can do it

One day this week while, waiting for my bus, there appeared a team of Council workers who were about cleaning the street.  Together they were happily going along a busy Bangkok road, cleaning everything in their way.  You would wonder what good they would achieve with all the dirt and pollution associated with Bangkok traffic.  Yet here they were so happy together working to achieve the impossible. 

For them, maybe it was not the achieving or not achieving that was important but the fact that they were doing it together.  That is one of the great characteristics of people heere, they love doing things together. 

I was so happy to watch them enjoying themselves, even if it was hot and hard and thankless work.  I had to take a picture of them, and did.  All they did in return was smile and wave at me.  Here was a message for me.  It is not reaching the goal that matters but the mere fact that you aim for it.  It is not that I right things around me but that I do it with others and create some sense of shared achievement and togetherness in the process.  Thanks to this team of lovely and happy women for all they taught me.  I enjoyed learning from them.