The two faces…I will remember….
Incident 1:
An old lady…who cannot walk….who doesn’t have crutches to help herself…and she doesn’t have money to buy one…she lives in a slum and the way to her home is very rough…how will she move…can you imagine…?
I saw an old woman, her age may lie between 60-80yrs, who was dragging herself on the rough road of Bangalore….it was pathetic to see her moving like that…I do not think that I shall be able to forget the picture I am having in my mind….
I did not do anything to help her at that time…but have promised myself that if I see her again then she will not drag herself on the road….
Hope I shall keep my promise…..
Incident 2:
I went to a petrol bunk to get my bike’s petrol tank refilled…after the refilling I went to get the air filling station….I took a 2 rupee coin out of the wallet…the guy filled the air and asked the other bike in the queue to come forward…I tried to give him the 2 rupees…but he said, “Sir, It is FREE”…I replied,” but, everybody wants this money”…
He said,”It’s free sir…FREE means FREE. I do not want this money.”…I was impressed…This is how it should be….I wished him best of luck…Moved my bike to the START state by kicking it…and moved away…wrrooooooooom…
I’ve generally seen a cute little girl on the Church Street with a bunch of red roses in her hand selling them. This weekend, I saw her in the same fashion… asking some couple to buy roses from her but when I came back in abt 5 mins, I saw her sitting on the footpath rubbing her tiny hands on her face. I don’t know what might have happened but definitely, her tearful innocent eyes moved me a lot and I was left wondering if there was something I could have done for her.
WHY DO SUCH THINGS HAPPEN??? WHY IS THERE SO MUCH OF DISPARITY IN THIS WORLD???
It must have been and HP or BP petrol pump
Weelll…but I guess it’s always easier to turn away and say to one’s self, “I’ll do something next time round”…whereas the instant in which we could possibly make a difference is always escaped.
Or conversely speaking, there’s a lot of suffering in the World and one should either not burden themselves with it all or start making a difference within their own capacities and realm of influence
Heh, maybe I made a lot of sense or all of it just sounded like mindless crap
well, contact an NGO in ur local area and tell them abt the lady, they will take care of her, or beter still u join the NGO and u urself take care of her — then u wont have think the ‘next time’ u see any such suffering…and the most imp thing — dont think abt these issues — it rarely helps anybody, philosophy looks gud only on paper — if u REALLY feel abt something go and work for them, or else simply shut ur eyes.
I would like to say willingness is not enough u must act, as one of ur best friend I would have been a happier species in this world if you must have acted at that time itself rather than showing sympathy for her.
I would like to say willingness is not enough u must act, as one of ur best friend I would have been a happier species in this world if you must have acted at that time itself rather than showing sympathy for her.
Yeah, this happened to me a lot of times… every time I promised myself that I wont ignore it next time… and then, there is NO NEXT TIME!
kakke, why dont u start a group in samsung to mobolize resources and work with some NGO… we had a group in Talisma for that.