She stood at the side of the road outside the Andheri railway station. I, with my cousin, had just got down from the auto to catch a local to Bombay Central.
She wore a short-sleeved top and a pant, the colours of each being hard to guess. They might have been white originally, maybe light pink or maybe even blue. All they looked to me now in the limited visibility the street lights provided was dirty brown, at some places dark and at some places light, in patches all over the cloth. Her hair looked brown too, but the yellow light above gave it a somewhat orangish touch. Her face was beautiful - innocence written all over. From her two eyes came out two thick drops of water, both heading down but vanishing before they reached her mouth. On the face still were the dried remains of many such drops her eyes had shed during the day. And of course, she had nothing beneath her feet.
She was thin and small. Not more than 7-8 years old – I’d have thought.
She held her hand out shyly. She was asking me for money.
7 comments:
And did you part with alms?
No, I didn't ..
who does anyway?
should we ?
conflictin feelings dont let u do they... who the miney goes to... will she eat out of it? is all this fake?
You should have asked her out... oh... don't think of it in the pedophile sense!
Just that you should have taken her to barrista or ccd or something and given her a chocolate brownie with chocolate sauce. If you think she had innocence written all over her!
Talked to her for five minutes. She would have remembered you for the rest of your life!
The best way to deal with kids that beg you for money is that you never give them money... instead you should give them a chocolate is you can... because that can't be taken away. People can take away money... but chocolate... children usually eat up before anything else can get their hands on them..!
treating sucha person to a chocolate????? i guess it wud be more worthwhile to offer a decent meal... something that fills her tstomach, doesn't allow her to lie awake most of the night with her tummy grumbling because it hasnt had anything foe a long time....
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