Desist from transaction and interact instead

 Last Saturday, Anoop was telling me that their PBH - Personal Banking Head, once exhorted them to desist from transaction and instead to interact to develop business. 

It was his response to sharing my experience at a neghbouring  Branch of a Bank on Friday (14thJuly) last. I was telling him of my experience of  Banking with the same Bank in 1970 for the first time in life and later of working in the Banking field for 35 years and of my observation in 2023 that 53 years hence the experience was the same as in 1970. The attitudes or the characteristics remain  exceptionally or exclusively unique and static. Dynamism had no locus standi.

Anoop explained when you transact, the debit credit alone matters. But when you interact, you build relationships that last more than a life time. 

That set me thinking. The principle is unversal ie.  whatever we do we must never be mechanical. 

And I feel we have to go into the world not to transact but to interact. 

We have to guide our children to be likewise.

At night soon after Anoop left on the 15th I found I had a high fever. 

It lasted till the before yesterday. It kept me down. It debilitated the body and the spirit despite drugs. But it kept me glued to TV ever since I learned early in the morning that the great Oommen Chandy was no more. 

It was indeed a revelation  of what the man was. 

I could see that he was not transacting but interacting all through his life. I could see how or why life has to be dedicated to giving and sharing and not to taking away or appropriating everything for the self. 

Like a slogan a lady coined, indeed,  Oommen Chandy was the Jesus Christ of Puthupally.