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An old lady was lying dead on a busy street in mumbai.She
was hit by a bus.Her face was completely destroyed by the
bus.People were standing around the lady,waiting for
ambulance to carry the body.Within five minutes the traffic
got jammed.As we know in a city like Mumbai it is very
common.
Now concentrate on the old lady.Her name was sheela.She was
walking on the street when the incident took place.Sheela was
working as a sweeper in a near by colony.She is a widow.She
has a daughter named aarti.Sheela's earnings were not
enough to even pay the rent of the house in which she was
living with her daughter.The house was just a room with water
leaking from almost everywhere.Her condition was very
critical.Sheela and her daughter have not eaten from the last
two days.She was going home with some sweets which she
had recieved from someone in the colony where she was
working.She was very eager to see her daughter eat those
sweets.But well the sweets were lying on the road around
sheela's body.
Five minutes after the incident,a young man aged 23 came
rushing from inside the traffic.His name was alok.He was in in
a real hurry.His face looked fully tensed.He was looking
furious.He took sheela's body in his hands and threw it in a
heap of dust near by.People were thinking what type of
person alok is.He has no respect for the dead lady.Alok at that
point was not concerned with anybody.His face showed no
respect and dignity.We may judge alok's characterstics by this
terrible incident.But it would not be fair if we does not look at
it from alok's eyes.
Now look at alok's day.alok lives with her wife seema.He has a
job in a software company.They got married just one year
before.They were very happy,Until before a month ago seema
slept through the stairs in the building where they lived.She
was taken to the hospital.After some tests the doctors said
that she would not be able to walk again if she was not
operated in time.Alok was very tensed.He was very upset.He
had no idea what he should do.In office,he was not able to
focus on his work.He had to arrange money for the
operation.His boss was very angry.He was not able to do any
work.On the day of sheela's accident alok was fired from his
job.And he was not able to arrange any money.The operation
was in the evening.
Alok came out of his office crying.He went to his house took
the house paper's and put the house on mortgage.He took the
money and was going to the hospital.on his way He got call
from the hospital that her wife was very severe and that he
should come as soon as he can.
And now we come to the location of sheela's body.Alok is
coming from the traffic and he threw sheela's body because
he has to go to the hospital to see her wife.After looking at
alok's part of story,is he justified in doing what he did to
sheela's body??
think about it!
We continue with alok.After alok was out from the traffic
jam,He took a rickshaw to reach the hospital.Alok was crying
on the way.His condition was very bad.as he reached the
hospital,the rickshaw driver asked for money.Alok looked into
the pocket.He has no money.The only money he had was that
required for operation.He opened the suitcase of money to
give it to the rickshaw driver.As he opened the suitcase,a man
came running and took all the money.Alok was shattered.he
slapped the rickshaw driver badly.Alok lost everything.He was
lying on the ground.The rickshaw driver took him inside the
hospital for treatment as he was in deep shock.Inside the
hospital when the rickshaw driver enquired about alok he got
to know about his wife's condition.The driver ran to alok's
wife to see how she was doing.She was severe.The doctors said
she will be operated,but they need money within one hour.
Now stop here.we will now look at the life of rickshaw
driver.His name was raju.His life was the worst of all.He had
only one younger brother shyam and an old mother.Her
mother died this morning.Raju was left alone in this world
with his younger brother shyam.Raju was very decent
person.He was honest.After burying his mother's body he went
to his home.He comforted his brother and went outside with
his rickshaw so that he could get some money to buy food for
his brother.And then he met alok who was rushing to the
hospital.Now do you think he still deserved some slapping
after such a bad day.But that's life.We continue.
As raju knew about alok's wife and that the money was
gone.Alok was lying unconscious in another room.Raju called
his rickshaw owner who was a noble man and told about
alok's story.The rickshaw owner was not convinced.But raju in
his life begged for the first time.And finally he convinced
him.The owner came with the money and the operation was
successful.Raju was relieved.He felt satisfied.He knew what it
feels when we lose someone close to us.
The next day alok was awake.He suddenly woke up and went
running to see his wife.She was sleeping.The doctors told him
about the night.and also the money which was arranged by
raju,The rickshaw driver.alok started looking for raju.
After trying everything he finally got his address.He went to
his house.Raju was not there.His younger brother shyam was
there.Alok talked to shyam.and after hearing about raju's life
from shyam,alok was moved to tears.He was not able to
believe what he just heard.He learned a great lesson of life.
As alok went from raju's house he was changed.He just wanted
to see raju.When he was walking on the street thinking about
what happened in the last one day,He heard a voice.It was
raju.He asked do you want to go somewhere??Alok turned and
saw raju, the rickshaw driver.
Raju just smiled satisfactorily.That smile was full of
hope,love,kindness.That smile was so bright that it can remove
any pain in the world.
Friends,sometimes in life we face so much that we cant control
anything.We just have to do what is good and then
smile,which raju did.
This incident changed alok's life.The next day he went to
sheela's house.Remember sheela?from where it all started.He
met her daughter aarti and decided to look after her.
This is how this story ends.Life is really complicated.we cant
complain,we cant control.What we can do is smile and do
what is good.Because doing good gives satisfaction.Hope u are
smiling right now after reading this story.