Dear Friends
I thought to myself that in the same way as I had helped and supported the people in their lives in my own small way, another set of people would also have given me the help, support in their own special way. And thereby it must be God’s own way of returning back the good deeds to people, (through me as a medium) of the good deeds that were rendered to me by other people.
That day I thought to myself – there are so many ways of supporting the people while living our daily lives and this need not necessarily be only through financial means.
Thus if we can through different ways – Make someone’s day brighter and cheerful and in the process improve the lives of at-least some people in this world....and that too without expecting anything in return, then I am sure the satisfaction that we would get out of these deeds would be worth its weight in gold.
Get Inspired and enjoy
Ravindra
My Inspiration for this article is based on a true incident
that happened with me, some time in month of February 2017.
Sometime during this year we had an office lunch party,
but forgot to narrate to my wife and she packed my regular lunch-box. I
realized in the evening, that the lunch box was there with me and more-over I
would be late in returning home since I had to attend our office dinner party.
Also by that time almost all the office staff had left,
so there was no person to whom I could have given away my tiffin box.
I left my office and started walking across the road to
where my car was parked and thinking to myself what to do with the tiffin box –
not wanting to waste the delicious food in anyway – that was home-cooked by my
wife.
Just then I came across 2/3 hutments across the road near
to the place where my car was parked and a lady cooking on a stove outside 1 of
the hutments. I immediately walked across and spoke to the lady and offered her
the tiffin box. She took it gladly and emptied the contents of my tiffin box in
her spare utensils. On seeing the vegetable (it was potato-brinjal mix curry),
she let out a squeal – and said thanks my boy - it’s my son’s favourite
vegetable. The shine in her eyes said a thousand words and made my day.
I also recollected another incident from my school years,
when during rainy season I took 1 student of our school (unknown to me) who was
not carrying any rain-coat / umbrella along-with me in my umbrella…to the
school from the bus-stop. And that boy gave me the greatest of thank-you wishes
that I still re-collect and treasure, much more than any other gifts that I
have received till now.
I thought to myself that in the same way as I had helped and supported the people in their lives in my own small way, another set of people would also have given me the help, support in their own special way. And thereby it must be God’s own way of returning back the good deeds to people, (through me as a medium) of the good deeds that were rendered to me by other people.
That day I thought to myself – there are so many ways of supporting the people while living our daily lives and this need not necessarily be only through financial means.
I mean simple things like - giving away your son’s last
year text-books to the needy children instead of selling them to the newspaper
vendor, teaching simple basic mathematics to your maid’s son who can’t afford
to go to school – which will surely help him in his routine life when he grows up,
reading out newspapers to the people at old-age homes and so on.
Thus if we can through different ways – Make someone’s day brighter and cheerful and in the process improve the lives of at-least some people in this world....and that too without expecting anything in return, then I am sure the satisfaction that we would get out of these deeds would be worth its weight in gold.
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