What do you make of it?

A piece of convenience.  Perhaps a handy piece maintained across places to keep off the dust and to which one can simply rub off the dirt and bring in cleanliness. Or maybe it is that means which helps to draw a line between cleanliness and dirt- so that on one side of where it is placed, there’s dirt, and on the other side, there’s spotlessness. It absorbs and takes it upon itself to breathe in all the dirt, so that the other side stays spic and span.

In life too, there are door mats! Talking, walking doormats. Meaning, there are selfish souls who are ready to look down upon others as mere door mats. They rub off their dust onto such people, and walk on…..as if nothing quite happened, or as if nothing quite matters. For such indifferent bunch of people, the door mat types don’t even exist. Their vision is affixed on their ultimate goal. For them, the door mat types are just a means to reach the end- just a ladder to rise.

Very implacably, these people just crush and stamp these door mats, filling them up with dirt and soot, and move on….after all, for them, such meek people are the almost nonexistent bunch of immaterial  beings. They stop momentarily, rub off the dust, and unthinkably carry on with their lives.

A door mat will therefore always remain a door mat. It’ll never rise in its identity. It has that sacrificial intonation- to be there for others, and only for others; to take on others grime and to leave others clean in the process.

World is a mixture of inconsiderate souls who’re bent upon crushing; and at the same time the ever forgiving souls who are bent upon sacrificing. But ending up being a door mat means not getting a fair share. It’s like being on the other side of the fence- the not so greener side; getting an unfair share.

So, a sense of understanding is needed for both types- those who are used to treat other like door mats, and those who end up getting treated like one. Those who treat others like one, need to stop and contemplate about what they’re about to do. And those who are used to carry the baggage need to unburden themselves and shed off that dust. It has to work both ways.

Till there are people in this world who do not stop taking on the role of a door mat, there will undoubtedly be people who do not stop treating others like one. If one stops, the other will follow suit.   Till then, this regimen which is set ,with indifference on one hand and sacrifice on the other will continue to go on, unless and until door mats learn it the smarter way!

It (an actual door mat) looks good and meaningful only outside doors; not when it starts getting reflected in the attitude and personalities of real people.

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