Friday, January 23, 2009

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'.

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