What is rarely found

(This post is in line with the previous post, but these two incident needed independent mentioning, so i put them into separate posts.)

"I haven't seen a man of integrity" probably this is a dialogue of movie ' the fountainhead'. It's true that we rarely meet with such persons and I'm glad to know a few. And yesterday i met with one more. That was not a man but a child, about 7 or 8 years old. We finished our drinks and leaving the restaurant. That boy came to us asking us to buy balloons. We were three final year students of engineering college, who by chance didn't play with balloons any more. But seeing that boy, we felt a kind of sympathy and gave him a note of 10 bucks and told him to go. But he didn't. He kept on insisting that we keep the balloons. Even as we said that we don't need balloons, he gave us balloons and went away, leaving us amazed. We caught him and after some effort, we successfully gave him balloons back. 

That kid didn't know the meaning of these heavy words like integrity as we do. It is something taught to him at home or at school ( if he ever had any chance of attending one) to not to take anything just for free, without giving anything back, without proper price. I know that kid has a good atmosphere at home however poor he might be. 

I hope to meet more people like this in my life, and grow up to be one.  

Money, how big it is.

In India, almost everyone is after money. Doctor, engineer, advocate, daily-wage-labour, auto-drivers, everyone. Even a engineer earning 50000 would hesitate before giving away 10 bucks. And that seems natural as it's a lot of hardwork to make money, and also money means power in this country. But somehow we keep finding exceptions everywhere and here also it's same.

Yesterday I was at Ranchi for some shopping with two of my friends -Rahul and Pankaj. Rahul had to get is laptop repaired so he left us. On his way, he hired a riksha for 12bucks. When he reached destination, he found out that neither him nor the riksha-wala had Rs2 change. Than riksha-wala said "bhaiya, leave that. it's fine.", (of couse he said all in Hindi not in English) and he left. Now Here is a person who workes hard for 12 bucks and leaves a big fraction of his earning (16.7% to be precise)  as if it doesn't matter. Now it's good to see that people can understand other's problems. And I hope that those two rupees saved would be given to someone else in the need. That's what in Hollywood they have called 'Pay it Forward'.