Positive story # 6
Snow fall of 2005
Weather has impacts on moods and personality for example as far weather in our city is usually dry with no rains so it has a direct impact on moods of people in Quetta. Quetta is a beautiful city surrounded by mountains and if you are about to land on the airport of Quetta after five minutes than the small windows of aircraft welcome you to see the explore able dry mountains.
These mountains have their own grace and in the east of the city you can see the sleeping beauty (a mountain which gives the glimpse of a woman who is sleeping with her long hair lying horizontally up her head. Moonlight adds a great attraction to this art of nature.).
When these mountains are covered with snow and everything is covered white, the city looks no lesser than a land of heaven. As far the global warming has changed weather everywhere same is the case with Quetta city. It uses to snow a lot when I was a child now it just snows once or twice in a season.
The kind of business in which we are involved in can not afford lapse in our operational activities what so ever the weather is.
It was snowing from last night and in morning when I woke up everything was covered with a thick layer of white snow.
It was cold and I went straight to my old model car to get it started but mentally I was comfortable that I will get it started as far I poured anti freeze in the radiator in the beginning of winters and it did get started.
I like reaching office on time. So MASHALLAH I did during that cold weather too. The weather reflected a few late arrivals of a few collogues in our office. Real problem that day was courier movement about which we all were not well aware till that time everybody seemed in a happy mood and enjoying weather. Keeping in view the fact it was still snowing. Chief courier informed our the than ABM (Mr. Nadir Qureshi) that roads are too slippery and couriers will not be able to move today. ABM called and discussed the issue. Although we had the edge of bad weather for non-deliveries and convincing the clients. But think out of box. But my mind was running here and there while observing our collogues where somebody wanted to go on a ride and somebody was talking about having a hot cup of espresso coffee from a nearby restaurant. But all these ideas flew away when I went to our ABM and said '" Boss we have only thirteen routes and we have three cars owned individually by SM,BDM and TO. So we can manage it by providing the required fuel to the sales team and three to four couriers can get fit in one car". This idea of mine clicked my ABM and he just said "Go ahead" this phrase of his showed his trust which not only flared me to height of motivation but also made me feel INSHALLAH we can do this.
In the next half hour the whole plan was ready to be implemented it was 10:15am I still remember when we were about to be seated in our cars accompanied by our sales solicitor's team and about to implement our proposed plan of 100% deliveries while it was still snowing. We were called up by our ABM and he said you guys can have lunch on my approval after completing deliveries. These were his motivating skills for the whole team.
It was 4:10pm when 4th sales solicitor in my car completed his last delivery. Although ours was the last team to arrive back to the office but we did it. And we were welcomed over a hot cup of coffee and appreciating phrases from our seniors and collogues.
Moral
Life is to go on weather we are there or not. So let's live today in its full bloom with honesty, determination and dedication for ourselves, for our families, for our colleagues, for our nation and for our Ummah.
Umar Khalid
Officiating ABM(UET)