Live and Let Live .!!

Couple of months back I had been to shimoga with my colleague to attend and present a paper in ICICT conference at PESITM shimoga. It was an awesome experience visiting the tiger reserve nearby PESITM and we had loads of fun. 

On May 6^th we boarded the Belgaum bus from Shimoga CBS and after few mins we got stuck in traffic. I was peeping outside the window to see people rushing in every possible direction to move on and we were stuck exactly at the signal. As we were waiting for the signal to go GREEN my eyes caught attention of a poor young girl may be jus about 10 yr old. She had a tiry look wearing torn clothes ultra-thin – malnourished, with a plate to beg <I felt reeli bad seeing her>. She seemed very hungry as she slowly opened a bread piece to eat. She took a bit and was about to take her next bite, a stray dog was in front of her wagging its tail. She was so sensible that quickly she put that bread piece on the road for the dog to eat. Dog sniffed the piece of bread and walked away. <It was so stale that even dog refused to eat> .The  very next moment ,the girl came, took that bread piece and ate it without hesitation. <This shows how much hungry she was. !sad! >. My heart cried and before I could see more of her through the window, the signal turned GREEN and our bus drove away. Till I reached Belgaum, I was thinking about that poor little gal.

Next day one of my friends treated our group as he had got a lucrative job. Everyone of us enjoyed the treat, had loads of fun, but the sad part was few of my friends wasted so much of food. It made me think about that poor girl I saw in shimoga – “Wish I could help her “; but it was too late. I started regretting that I could have stopped the bus and walked up to her which I did not do :(

All I could do was “think-regret-think-regret” . Without any hesitation the poor gal shared her bread with the dog, though she seemed very hungry. Then I realized instead of wasting food like this one can satiate their hunger according to their needs and save the rest of food to someone else; someone who cannot afford a simple meal, not even once a day.

I still look back at that traffic-signal incident fondly as I don’t know that little girl personally, but she taught me a lesson of life. We should SHARE and help the people in need. Lets Make world a better place to live :)