Benevolence
It has been years; I have learned to make the streets my home. I am just a young boy trying to survive this forsaken life. I have always believed that no one wants me because I hear people say that mothers' love is the greatest in the world and to expect from others is a tease for me, A love based upon expectation.
Who I am is not the story for today. But I want to share a one-day experience that changed my life. One afternoon, I was just walking and thinking when I turn to a neighborhood I didn’t know; There was a mentally unstable guy just minding his own business as people were passing him be scared. He then sat on the ground and took out a paper to read and he started to cry. I got to him and there was just something in my stomach that was unsettling. I asked him what was wrong and he told me the story of one woman who helped him unimaginably and told him that there are others like her and he wrote that down to remind himself that the humanity in us is not over yet. where nowadays, helping people is becoming more like image creation than truly caring.
I felt bad for him for two reasons. One because of the misery I see in his eyes. Two is when the girl said that there are others like her, she meant people like him and me, the stray ones in the street who is seen as if we have lost it all.
You see compassion comes from deep emotion and is expressed through our actions. The core source is an emotion that we all have, the rich, the poor, old, or young. Compassion is not only limited to sharing one of the bread in our hands. The one shirt I have in my body could go to the wretched and deprived one. So, I gave it to him to show him that there are people like us. Who will redefine compassion, that caring is sharing the one thing you have, sharing a piece of you to be full together.
Giving your one thing to the one who had none is what it means to be there for someone, to be human. Because to be is to do. I know that I won’t get poorer by sharing. What I give away will come back to me. A true act of caring will create an endless ripple.
