Saturday, May 8, 2010

MANANIMITY- Sometimes it is a loss

This is an incident when I was around 15 years old. I had gone to purchase some daily need items with my Father. There at the shop I chose to remain outside the shop as there was rush in the shop. So my Father went inside the shop leaving me outside in our car. Then a small boy approximately of age 10-11 years came to me. He then began asking for 1 or 2 rupees from me. He said that he has lost his Parents & now there is none to take care of him. So he need money to satisfy his hunger. I got very much touched by his condition so I gave him a coin of Rs.2.
On the same day I happened to cross the same place at night around 11:30 P.M. I was with my family & we were returning to home after attending a marriage. I coincidentally saw the same boy playing the game of cards with some other people including the kids of his age as well as some adults. The boy was also smoking & the other persons were consuming liquor. Some money was also there. I suppose that they were gambling at cards.
I described the whole incident to my brother. He just smiled and said sometimes magnanimity gets converted into losses & misfortunes for some persons. By this incident I realized that no matter I got satisfaction that by helping that boy I have done a great job but my magnanimous behavior proved a loss & misfortune for that small boy as he wasted the money collected by so many people like me in his misdeeds & wrong doings & this is not only a loss & misfortune for the future of that small boy but also a loss & misfortune for the future of our nation as the young boys & girls are the future of our nation.
Everyday a lot of persons like me encourage begarry knowingly or unknowingly in one or the other way. I agree that some beggars are really in need of money & beggary is the only option before them to make their both ends meet. But a lot of other people try to take advantage of the magnanimous behavior of human beings & try to make money without much efforts. So it becomes a duty & responsibility of every citizen of India to try to help only those beggars who are actually in need of money & the government plus the citizens should try to help sending the kids who are beggars to some orphanages or NGOs so that these kids can become the assets of India & not the liabilities of India.

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