The Help

There is one person in all of our lives who holds more importance than everybody else. She is somebody, whose arrival brings a sigh of relief. Her absence even for a day makes our lives miserable.
You cannot live without her but living with her is difficult.
She is none other than our house Help.
She is an integral part of our lives.
You are never happy with her but you never dare to change to another one. She is like a girlfriend on whom you have invested so much that you just continue the relationship. You know it well enough that a new one would mean much more effort and might mean more expense and there is no guarantee that she will be better than the current one.
But have you ever given a thought as to what might be there life outside of our homes. How they might be struggling to make ends meet every day. Somebody might be living with an abusive husband, or with ever nagging in laws. They belong to a social strata where problems like dowry, illiteracy etc. are still rampant. The necessities for us are their luxuries.
Whenever I give anything to my maid to eat she never eats it and always take it with her for her grandkids. For her thats the treat she can take home for those kids, which our kids might not even appreciate.So many times my maid comes late due to the fact that she is trying to save some money by not taking the bus or auto. For us life without Ola and Uber appears difficult.
If you try to peep into their lives, you will know that even she dreams of sending her kids to good schools and then further  for higher studies but how many of them are able to achieve those. So, many of them start bringing their kids to work. If its a girl she needs to be married soon, before that she needS to learn the tricks of the trade. If its a boy, he needs to start early by picking up odd jobs. If he is lucky enough he might get a job as a security guard or a driver and thats when he is considered "doing well".
Thats the kind of system that they live in.

For once try to look at them in the same light as yours and you will realise they are as human as us. They have the same needs, the basic ones, and a much harder struggle for those needs.
Once I was quite angry at my maid for not doing the things the way I wanted and trying to take shortcuts, my husband said something very logical, "She works at around 4-5 houses everyday plus her own house and plus all the travelling on foot. Now imagine doing that kind of physical work, you would take shortcuts if you have to do it anyhow.". This simple explanation always comes to my mind whenever i see my maid doing something that i do not like and if it is not something very important I just let it go.