A small little reality check! :)

It was in between when I had got tired of sitting in my ac room and browsing the internet that I got out of my room and happened to peep out of the window, where apparently there are vegetable vendors. I looked at a child, ya child because he looked like he was still in his teenage counting some money sitting on a mat where he had laid his vegetables. He sits there every day I have noticed from some 10am in the morning till I guess a ten in the night to earn whatever little he does throughout the day in the blazing UP sun to just earn a living when other children of his age may be cribbing about not having the latest phone, or may not having too many likes for some random post on facebook.. I mean because that’s what probably a rich persons teenager problems are now a days. And why blame them look at me how different was I myself I thought, thinking all day when will my result come, thinking weather I ll get the job I want, and what to watch on the TV !! I felt like a waste when I actually thought I hardly appreciate what I have around, I hardly utilize what I have been given. And this young boy even in any part of the day I hardly ever saw him upset, he’s always smiling, teasing other vendors, commenting on passer bys or in short happy in what he has around.

I guess we who have these basic life privileges of a good food, good education and good money should understand our responsibilities better that we carry for the under privileged, we should utilize our privileges well instead of cribbing, and wasting them if so we can do so much, for both staying happier ourselves and ya for doing something for those who may never get as many privileges as us!

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