Posts

Showing posts from April, 2010

Count your blessings

My mother would always say "count your blessings" when i would crib or complain about how life was being unfair to me, though the matter at hand was trivial. i did not pay attention then, to those 3 magic words until yesterday. While ferrying my daughter to her nani's place last morning, i saw on the roadside, labour women living in shanties made of tarpaulin, some bamboo and xyz(typical urban rejects or waste) with no comforts, no gadgets, no electricity, no source of potable water nearby, no HOUSE, typical condition of crores of our country people living below poverty line. These women were carrying their kids in one hand, some were cooking, some trying to fetch some water, some attending kids, some staring in infinity, probably at some ray of hope, some oppurtunity that could come their way and help them make a living maybe help them get their next meal. I was being driven in an air conditioned, chauffeured car! how could i complain, i had so much to thank god for