After finishing my office tasks, I was commuting to my room by regular local train. That day I noticed that the train had additional cars making the train size lengthier than the platform. The last two cars will stop behind end of the platform. I noticed a man struggling to crawl from the last car and was heading towards my car which was ahead of last two cars. It was little dark and I landed inside my car not seeing what that person was doing. The train moved a little further and stopped to put the last two cars to the platform.
I saw the man from the window seat struggling to look for entry to get in the train and he managed to get inside before the train moved from that station. I saw him; he was blind wearing a dirty cloth and selling wrapped toffees.
I felt very bad about him struggling a lot to sell the toffees with his visual disability. I was deeply touched with his struggle to get into my car and arranging his toffee bags and his guide stick. I thought for a while to how to help him to give little comfort to him. He was moving from my last seat to the opposite side and saying "buy toffee for Re. 5".
Still, I was wondering what to do help him by the way he was turning towards the back side where my seat is located. He again approached my side that moment I decided to help him with some money. I offered him 50 bucks to keep with him saying no to toffee. He replied very politely, sir, I don't accept this…..sir I sell toffee….if you're interested you can have toffee or you take back your money.
His polite reply made me to think what I or others would have done if we happened to be in his position with disabilities. Really, he was not begging for money but was selling his product with lot of struggle and hardship to earn a small amount and everybody know very few people will buy while they are commuting a short distance.
He was very honest and attached to his principle not to beg or get moneys from others. If everybody have good principles, we would have a far better standards of life than those who always admire other countries having corrupt minds. Hope, this makes sense to people not to eye on others money while everyone have sufficient resource to survive their living. Really, this poor blind man's soft action worth a moral value for greedy people who grab others money for their living……especially the government servants!