Focus: Human Nature Observance - 'Routinely Monotoneus'

Human nature has always been very interesting to observe, but almost impossible to decode! When things go haywire, we hope for them to get back in routine as soon as possible. 

Once, things are back to routine, we term our daily, weekly and month activities as “boring”. This picture depicts, how monotonous routine life is, and how well humans fit themselves into the mould they chose once upon a time as youngsters.
The picture, shows person A’s activities for a living (the barber), person B’s daily routine activities (afternoon naps) and finally person C’s weekly/monthly chores (shaving/haircutting). 

At the first glance, it also pushes you to think, how easy is someone’s routine when compared to somebody else’s. For instance, the person sleeping, has a laid back afternoon, but the barber doesn’t as most people prefer doing their daily chores during late afternoon, specially in south Asian countries like India. Similarly, the barber may have an early evening to himself as , but the man sleeping will have to stay up to sell his goods/products, since that could be his business hours.

Apart from this, a second observation at the picture induces a satirical view of human activities. In other words, someone’s gain is someone’s loss.  This general observation explains how money transfers function. Cash always remains on rotation, traveling from one person to another. The man will pay the barber for the services he provides, and after a while, when the third man wakes up, lets assume he sells some food item for a living, and the barber buys something to eat. Money has traveled almost 3 hands in a matter say about an hour, and this chain is most likely to continue as the night approaches. 

The food seller, may travel by an auto rickshaw, paying the rickshaw driver, the rickshaw driver in turn may have to pay that for his daily fuel usage and will pay this at the petrol pump. In about, 6-7 hours, money has not only traveled multiple hands but also several industries, from service sector (barber), to consumption (Food, Beverage or FMCG), to travel and accommodation and now, manufacturing sector (Oil and gas). Remember it doesn’t end here; it travels from an extreme end to the other, sometimes cross borders as well. Nobody knows where it started, and nobody will know where it’s going to end.  

This simple picture explains how money is constantly changing is nature, its position, its physical state and value. Let’s assume, a shave at the barber, may have costed about 15 Indian rupees, a plate of vada pav (assuming was sold by the man who is sleeping in the picture) would have costed 8 rupees, the auto rickshaw ride must have costed 20 rupees for a distance of 2 kilometers, the auto rickshaw driver would have in turn paid this 20 along with other earnings for his daily fuel consumption. 

It’s very important to note how value fell, from one sector to another, and then rose from the second to the third. Assuming this is how daily life is for the barber, food seller and auto rickshaw puller, clearly the cash flow will nearly be the same for most days.  And yet again, money shows how monotonous it’s life is.