BEGGING - A FAMILY BUSINESS

I wanna tell you one incident happened with me just few days back, when I was with my Grand Ma, we were going to some of our relatives, at one of the sweet shop she stopped me and asked to buy some sweets, so I stopped there. After stopping, I saw some beggars roaming around looking for someone to help them. Few days before this incident, I have read one of the blog of my friend on beggars and that made some impact on me to help beggars, so I took out couple of 1 rupee coins and gave them and went inside the shop to purchase sweets.

After purchasing sweets, when I came out, saw 3 to 4 beggars, you can say whole family was begging from my Grand Ma for some money, I told them that I have given you, so just go, but instead of listening they keep on begging to my Grand Ma. I was getting irritated by this. My Grand Ma thought that they’ll go, when she will give some money to them. So she took out her purse and gave 5 rupee to one of them. One of them took it and got aside, but others still were pleading, I got really angry and insulted them, also told Grand Ma to leave before some more come. At that point, one of them probably head of the family said, “If you don’t have that much of money, then why are you traveling through vehicle, you should at least give Rs. 10, you shameless creature.” That was enough for me to get really very angry, so I stopped and was going to grab & him, but Grand Ma stopped me, and told to let it go, so I just took her and went to relatives’ house. Since I never disobeyed her that’s why just went to relatives’ house or else I would have bashed him really badly.

At that moment I couldn’t imagine that the most interesting part of the incident is yet to come…….

It got really late, when we were returning to our place… what I saw was really shocking, while passing through the same place where I bought sweets, those beggars whom we met earlier in the day, were well dressed and also in a Car, the head of the family saw me and gave a teasing smile to me…… I just couldn’t believe my eyes…!

So, the moral of a story is that, there may be some genuine beggars, but it is becoming a well organized and profit making family business for most.

Guys, I won’t tell you, not to give money to any beggars, but you should judge by yourself, that they deserve that penny or not…

Rest is up to you, because it’s your money whether you want or you don want to give to any beggar.