Sunday, February 22, 2015

Project 2020

I started my project 2020 yesterday. I'll revisit this post every-year in February to note my observations from the year bygone on this project.

Act of love

I feel that act of love is ubiquitous among many acts of our near and dear ones, friends and family and the loved ones. I always feel that all these acts of love are guided by the God himself. Here are my two stories of act of love in which I strongly believe that God had something to do:

The sunny day

It was a sunny summary day when the sun was at his fiercest mood. I was down with infections in nose and ears and high fever, and had just come out consulting a doctor. I was standing beside the road with my head down and eyes closed, too tired to be able to try to catch an auto to go home. Suddenly, one auto came and halted in front of me, and was waiting for me. Instinctively, I approached the auto driver, who was a middle aged man with unshaved beard, to ask if he would come to Uttarahalli. Without any word the man put the meter down and started the auto. He was ready to go wherever I wanted as if someone sent him to take me home!

The old man

It was any regular day. I got ready to go to office and when I was crossing the park near my house I could see an old man in white kurta and dhoti sitting under a tree, apparently begging! He didn’t look like those professional beggars and his clothes didn’t show the signs of living on the street. He looked tired, exhausted and hungry. I felt a pang in my heart and wished I could help him. But I was getting late for the office. But one idea hit me and I realized I could help him. I called home and asked my mother to send some food in a paper plate to the man sitting under the tree. Later I came to know the rest of the story. When my brother took some roti and sabzi and a bottle of water to the man, he kept asking my brother “Is this for me, really?” He was completely ignorant about how the God had just showed his love through someone he would never know. I have never seen that man again.



---Wrote this up for the office newsletter to be published under "Act of Love"---