Today while walking down the street, rushing back to my hostel….Suddenly it started raining heavily… So, I just stooped and stood under the roof of a shop….. Standing there, I started looking up around…. and noticing what other were doing… there were some who were on their way with umbrella in the their hands and some were under the guard of their raincoat…. and then I moved slightly …. I saw a woman … she appeared to be a POOR lady…. I am not though too sure if she was a beggar…. I didn’t see her asking for money from any person in the crowd……She was lost in her own world… she had a bottle in one of her hand… was wearing a HALF-SAARI… which wasn’t clean at all…. she had uncombed curly hairs…. when I noticed her… she was trying to fill her bottle with the water dropping off the roof…… I felt odd for a minute…. but then that was the only thing which pulled my attention towards her…… I kept inspecting her for around 10 minutes….. She couldn’t manage to get a single drop of water inside her bottle.. After a while she changed the place… but again the same had to happen…. so she made a move toward the Fountain over tiger circle… she sat next to it… and started filling water into her bottle….. I didn’t exactly was able to figure out what was in her mind….. For a minute felt like going and asking her… But then I thought she may turn out to be defensive….
But looking at her put my heart at unease….. I felt sympathized….. If I were in their shoes, without money or eat any kind of food… how I would have been dealing with that… I felt sad about what I just saw….. I spent 300 rupees with a single thought in my mind….. Just because there were few things I wanted to buy….. Whereas on the other hand when I saw that lady… my feelings changed suddenly…… we never think before spending the money for a single minute… whereas people like this lady who even may not be processing a single rupee in her pocket….. have to think so many times if they really want to spend it… sometimes I do wonder…. do they really have POCKETs as well? They are also just a normal people like us. Not everyone in this world is lucky. There’re unfortunate people out there who need our help. Beggars are part of them. Frankly speaking, I feel really sorry to see these poor people. God create people in different situation and poor’s are one of it. I help those who I really find in problem… like old people… who do not appear to be involved with syndicates… if I have some extra money in my pocket… I try to help them with either food or something of their need…. instead directly offering them money. Sometimes beggars deserve our money. They might need money badly for their daily needs. They may not able to work because of a certain reason. Often they may not have a good health to work or they are paralysed and are not able to do any work.
Whenever I see a needy person, I really feel sorry for them. Especially when the poor’s are women or children. I always think what actually throw them into that situation? It must be poverty. I am sure that they must be shy to beg for money, but they don’t have any option. For example; children and disable people, it’s not easy for them to find a job. That will be really tough for them to do that and no one wants to employ them. So… the simplest way is to be beggars. And the worse thing is that some of the beggars are the people who have mental problems. Do you think they can get money from other sources? I don’t think so. If we have money, why don’t we try to help these people
I also feel disappointed with those beggars who are I think are really healthy, have complete set of limbs, able to see, able to hear, able to walk, able to do everything, but still beg to others for money. What makes me feel hesitant about them is the news about the illegal activities that hiding inside these begging activities. They take advantage of other people’s kindness to make money. They even kidnapped and use kids to beg money for them. That annoys me a lot. This kind of illegal activities make those kind-hearted people will think twice to donate their money. However, this day we almost can’t tell which one really needs our help and which one just pretending because of their lethargy.
As for me, if the beggars are really honest and really need our help, I won’t mind to give them some money. However, mostly I saw people who actually more like pretending to ask for people sympathy.
Thats all..
