Time to question ourselves...
Few days back, while travelling in a local train I saw a little girl cleaning the floor of the compartment. She might be around 4-5 years. After completing what she was doing with utmost sincerity (what I could notice), she came to all the passengers one by one demanding what she thought she deserved. If you travel in local trains, this is a common scene for you.
People pay to visit idiots who can declare themselves as the avatar of God. Even in some places there is an hierarchy of the extent to which you can have the company of that idiot and likewise is the fee. People still pay. People pay the beggars who could easily work and get food for themselves with prestige, but the little girls like the one I mentioned are still left with nothing.
Former Iraq President Saddam Hussain had a plan for the biggest mosque in Iraq. His daughter, after watching the model of the mosque structure, asked him if there was nothing better for the citizens of the country spend the wealth to. He counter-questioned with a smile “Just imagine what the king of Jerusalem would have answered to a question like this!.” People are busy in building and demolishing religious structures. People pay to build theirs and to destroy others’ even in the countries where people die hungry.
More surprisingly, there are places where public exhibition of love and affection is considered a crime but riots and violence is sometimes supported by the so called protectors of the public.
Life will someday end like every sunrise sees a sunset. At the end of the day what we want is all about a sound sleep, not the one with sleeping peels. Let our life not be ended crowded by the acts of hypocrisy and when we grow older and older, may we not have any regrets like “I should have..” or “I shouldn’t have…”. I am not a philosopher. But this is what understood and then I took out a two rupee coin from my purse and handed it to the little girl.
yaa u r r8…. i wish evry1 thinks like da way u do….
thanks… and I think it is more about putting our ideas forward and doing something about it, if we can.
i thnk its d way u percieve….well the tght itself is so true but u nvr knw d oder side of the coin….
Its realy heart touching..The way u described is appreciable.Many people have the same feelings towards the needy people, but a few do there job.
In this case, our job is done when we pay a coin,but wat if a healthy and fit boy do the same and ask for a coin ? Can we ignore him, can we scold him, should we?
thank u friends for replying. @tarani – ur question vl always remain a question… a very gud question for all of us. it’s really our part now to understand our responsibilities and listen to our conscience and act accordingly.