Dear Sir,
Last week I visited the Animal Resource Department’s veterinary hospital to treat my sick cats. The waiting area was in an open place with no air-conditioners. Rooms for animals were hot and not up to the mark. The ground floor of the hospital wore a gloomy and deserted look.
I would like to request the Baladiya and authorities concerned to have an urgent look at the hospital. It needs renovations and maintenance. It should also have more vets.
AN
(Full name and e-mail address supplied)
Positively happy
Dear Sir,
The article “Secret to Happiness” (Gulf Times, June 1) made good reading.
Happiness is a state of the mind. If you love the work you do, you can get happiness, irrespective of whether the task is easy or difficult. There is a wrong notion that amassing wealth gives us happiness. Money is indispensable indeed but craving for it prevents us from being happy.
If you choose laughter over irritation while confronting everyday problems, you will feel better and so will be those around you. Smile in the face of difficulties. Your attitude towards life matters. Take things as they are; do not ask why they have happened to you and instead ask what for. This is because everything that happens has some good in it.
It is rightly said that “If you are depressed you are living in the past, if you are anxious you are living in the future and if you are at peace you are living in the present”.
Helping others without expecting anything in turn gives one happiness. Comparing yourself with others will retard happiness.
C Robinson
robin_son_ch@yahoo.co.in
Arbitrary change in bus routes
Dear Sir,
I have had a bad experience from a Karwa bus driver the other day. I was travelling on a bus bound for the Industrial Street around 3.30pm; my destination was near Midmac. Just after the Center roundabout, the driver changed the usual route.
Two other passengers wanted to be dropped off at the Al Ahli bank stop but their request was denied, with the driver saying that he had to change the route to go to the Muntaza petrol station to fill diesel. We three were then dropped off at the Suhaim Street, far from our destinations.
Karwa bus drivers should not arbitrarily change the routes. This will pose huge problems for passengers.
Abdul Azeez Manjiyil
azeezmanjiyil@gmail.com