Deranged?

Like every other Sunday morning, it would be breakfast with my parents. We would drive around town looking for eating places, and then sit there for about an hour or so before finishing our meal & head on home.

Just like every other Sunday morning, today was nothing much special about breakfast.

As we were eating the food, talking & chatting, amidst the enjoyment, the corner of my eye caught a glimpse of a pitiful sight.

There was a man. He was dressed in a worn-out yellow collar shirt, slightly torn at the right shoulder. His shorts was black, not the original color i suspect but from the dirt that stained it. His sleepers were mixed, a side different than the other.

He was holding a few coins in his hands, asking the yau-cha-guai seller the price of each of the delicacies that he is selling. Although this man is a customer, the hawker did not treat the man as one. He was rather generous in his harsh & rudeness.

The man wasn't choosing which one was nicer. He was choosing which one he can afford.

I felt really bad at that time. I looked around, little kids having their moms to beg them to finish their food, adults with unfinished food left on the table. Everyone was enjoying the food, and no one seemed to notice this man.

I really felt bad. I was surmounted by the feeling of sympathy but at the same time, fear.

The first thought that went through my mind when i saw him was, what had he done, or didn't do, that caused him such life of misery?

Who knows he might be one of the CEOs in a famous multi million earning MNC, or used to be, but went bankrupt because of one silly mistake in investment?

Or maybe, he's just someone who didn't bother to study when he was young, play truant everyday, got involved with underground gangs, and when he finally got older, got left out of the wild life, he now can't even afford a proper meal?

How do you know which decision you make will lead you to a better life in the future?

It really is quite disturbing for me. I didn't know what to think!

One wrong step you take today might caused you everything you can't afford to lose tomorrow. So how do you know what you do today is the right thing to do?

Deranged~!!





ChiM