Coin for a smile

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Valentine

There was an old beggar down the street, wearing his rugged and patched clothes sneezing as if he has sinus infection. He looked worn out and filthy. A well-dressed woman passed by him but never seemed to look down on where he sat down. She gracefully swung her hands while walking on heading to her fashion boutique situated nearby. The smell of her expensive perfume never seemed to let her notice the foul smell of the beggar she passed by.

A young man passed by the beggar carrying on his right hand the latest cellphone he just bought. The beggar called out for him for a penny, but he was busy talking to his client over the phone setting up a meeting.

A car stopped beside the street where the beggar is sitting, honking it’s horn for it can’t park on its parking lot because a child passing blocked its way in. A middle-aged man went down from the car with his suitcase at hand. He had his bodyguards following him. The beggar was about to follow him asking for help when a bodyguard stood by him to stop him.

A painter carrying a box filled with paints, brushes and some stuff used to paint walked along where the beggar was. He walked the fastest to get his project done the fastest. He accidentally dropped a brush and got it back on the box without paying attention to the beggar.

A teacher passed by the street with plenty of things on her mind preparing for the class lessons she will be doing today. Familiarizing the lessons while walking ahead to the school. She had in mind the students she will be assigning for the reporting of a certain topic. Besides the fact that her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She never noticed the beggar.

A seven year old child held hands with his mother noticed the beggar from afar. He had kept a coin from his pocket from yesterday. He should be saving a coin everyday to buy his mother a card on her birthday. He looked at the old man’s clothes and have seen how dirty and worn out it is. He saw the wrinkles and the sadness on his face. As he went nearer he pitied the beggar and gave the coin he saved to him. The beggar smiled as he dropped a coin on his container.

The fashion model wore high heels that she never have seen the beggar sat down, the young man should be listening attentively to the one he is talking to ever the phone that he never heard the beggar, the middle-aged man was blocked by his bodyguard that he never heard the beggar called, a painter could have painted the misery of life the beggar is having and the teacher could have taught the students on helping the beggars. The child must have been too little to notice the beggar from afar.

Many of us in different situations in life somehow passed through a beggar down the street, should we be too busy with our daily routines that we never gave a brief stop and give a coin for a smile? The child gave his coin but that’s all he got.

Shoulder to lean

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Valentine

Every child deserves a shoulder to lean on.

In a third world country like Philippines many children are raised with poor parents. The irony of thing is the poorer the higher the number of children being raised. There is no actual family planning. Some have been told of such family planning methods through seminars held at their respective health centers but some never heard of such planning. They were uneducated and illiterate.

There was a poor couple who were facing an unplanned pregnancy. It was just few months after giving birth to a son. They ate at least thrice a day but suffered the agonizing heat of the sun. Both of them are laborers. They would wait on a dump truck that would dump garbage on their place. They would then pick up will bare hands some tin cans, used bottles and scrap metals out of the garbage and sold it at the nearby junk shop.

A middle class couple had lost their should be first born son of a miscarriage. They have waited a year for his wife to get pregnant after the wedding, thought the pregnancy was all the way to born a healthy baby. But then, just at it’s sixth month of pregnancy that they found out there was no more heartbeat of the fetus that was heard. Dismayed of what happened their relationship went cold and sad.

A rich couple who had been married for five years never had a child. His wife is barren, there is no hope for her to get pregnant. They went looking for the right child to adopt. They want to see the relatives of the child, their physical appearance if they looked good and if they have good background. They saw some of their relatives but haven’t met the parents. They planned to go abroad after the papers of the child be fully processed for adoption.

So, it was a three hour travel to get into the place of the prospective child to be adopted. It was the day that the child should be born. When they arrived at the place, they saw the mother’s physical appearance. The exact opposite of their relatives good looking features. But they can’t back out all was planned as it was. They have waited for few hours but her mother was still in labor. It was getting late and they still have to travel long way heading home. They just then left the place. After it, the ones who brought the couple to the place never heard of the couple’s interest of adopting the child again. That child is the daughter of the poor couple.

The poor couple who had planned to let the child be adopted had lost hope. Then, they decided of having the child to be adopted by her cousin, the middle class couple. She went to see her cousin to have her child adopted, though hesitant at first she accepted the child as her foster daughter. It was the right decision for after that first miscarriage she never got pregnant again.

When adopting, should you be choosy to know who to adopt judging that child through the physical appearance of the parents? Should you not know first to accept them wholeheartedly? With the middle class couple is a sweet girl who loves them.She needs her mother for a shoulder to lean on. She deserves their love and nurturing care.

They know better

Posted on February 25, 2012 by Valentine

Seeking the right decisions in life.

They have said that the old ones know best. They have been through life’s struggles and won some battles. At their age they will give you an advice and say, “trust me, I’ve been there.”

Getting married at a young age would be perceived by them as a failure in the future. There was a couple who got married at the age of nineteen with the consent of their parents. The girl wasn’t pregnant at all, she just have to escape from her step mother who had been cruel to her.

In their house, she couldn’t call it a home, her mother died at a young age from breast cancer. His father shouldn’t get married after her mother was lost, that was what she ever wanted. But her father eventually got married after a year. She couldn’t accept the situation.

She didn’t opened her heart to love and she wasn’t loved back by her step mother.She became a wicked step mother on her sight because she had hatred on her heart. On the other hand, her step mother also revenged on her by mistreating her and her younger brother. She then begun hating her father for making the wrong decision of marrying her.

Life wasn’t easy for her but she have someone to love her, her boyfriend. Her boyfriend have seen the situation and asked her to get married. So that was it, they got married at such young age.

Her husband was just a student by that time. When his son was born he strive to finish his studies and he did it. He became an engineer with a family as his inspiration. Their two children were raised well and became professionals as well.

Now, they say that getting married late would be such a success. All are set, a fully furnished house, a car in the garage and a stable job to sustain the family.

A man at his young age would jump from a relationship to the other, just played around the bush and not really getting serious to relationships. He would wake up each day getting lazy with life. As if nothing is going to happen tomorrow, never thought of marriage, never his priority. At his mid thirty he realized he was not getting any younger so he then went to start a new life of living responsibly. He opened a new business and had it progressed well.

At his late thirty he found the one for him and got married. He had a son and is happily married. He then said to his father, “If only I got married at an early age I should have worked earlier for my son’s future and could have played around with my son at a longer period of time, now I easily get tired of running with him.”

It is right seeking the advice of the elders because they know more in life for they traveled farther in life. They know better but no one knows best. We make decisions but we never know what is best for us. For there is no guidelines on how to live life but just live life on a daily basis and make the best of it. Life is a battle and we should fight for life’s struggles and win the battle.