Funny how some things remind u of other old forgotten things.
just now, a kid came knocking at my door, selling a tickets for Rose day..cancer patients aid association.
As i fish out ten bucks, i cant help but remember the lady living above tell me " i always give Atul(my son) money when he comes (for such tickets given by school for distribution)"this is one of the reasons why i never turn any kid away..cause i simply have no idea about how many people atul wud have approached in his school days!
but today what i remembered was something even more distant.
as a student, i was once selling such tickets. unfortunately, by the time i got permission from my parents, to start 'begging', most of the kids had already done numerous rounds, so other parents wudnt take it from me..
in sheet desperation, i turned to a panwalla near my school. i remember his nonplussed expression even now, when i showed him the paper written in english..kya chahiye?(what do u want?) he had raised his eyebrows..he had not used any words.. paisa(money)... i had desperately said, cause i thot he too wud send me packing.. i said a rather huge amount cause i was sure he wouldnt give it anyways. (later i realised why he looked nonplussed ..he perhaps didnt know to read or write english)
he gave it quietly.
i left in immense gratitude. and same time greed was mocking me .... if only i had said a bigger amount, perhaps i wud have got that too!
immediately, after that i got the confidence to do rounds of all shops in the area to finish my target.
somehow today i feel loads of gratitude again, for the illiterate unphad panwalla near my school.
just now, a kid came knocking at my door, selling a tickets for Rose day..cancer patients aid association.
As i fish out ten bucks, i cant help but remember the lady living above tell me " i always give Atul(my son) money when he comes (for such tickets given by school for distribution)"this is one of the reasons why i never turn any kid away..cause i simply have no idea about how many people atul wud have approached in his school days!
but today what i remembered was something even more distant.
as a student, i was once selling such tickets. unfortunately, by the time i got permission from my parents, to start 'begging', most of the kids had already done numerous rounds, so other parents wudnt take it from me..
in sheet desperation, i turned to a panwalla near my school. i remember his nonplussed expression even now, when i showed him the paper written in english..kya chahiye?(what do u want?) he had raised his eyebrows..he had not used any words.. paisa(money)... i had desperately said, cause i thot he too wud send me packing.. i said a rather huge amount cause i was sure he wouldnt give it anyways. (later i realised why he looked nonplussed ..he perhaps didnt know to read or write english)
he gave it quietly.
i left in immense gratitude. and same time greed was mocking me .... if only i had said a bigger amount, perhaps i wud have got that too!
immediately, after that i got the confidence to do rounds of all shops in the area to finish my target.
somehow today i feel loads of gratitude again, for the illiterate unphad panwalla near my school.
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