
Yesterday afternoon I visited the local Crosswords book shop and spent time browsing through some amazing books.
I was so enjoying my Sunday me time that I hardly realized how the day had turned to late evening as I stepped out.
Walking down an aisle of steps my eyes fell on a very poignant sight. There was this little boy with a little basket, sitting by a busy street selling the very colorful & delicious Java/blackplum called Jamun in India.
He looked no older than 6 or 7 years. But there he was confidently telling me a price. I went near him, to pick up some myself, but realized his entire basket was really ripe and ready. I watched how he had a little steel glass by which he measured and gave me the quantity I asked for.
I watched his tiny hands at work and I thought to myself this little boy should be holding a book to read or write and here was this child ,selling fruits.
I struck a little conversation asking him if he goes to school, he said the last few years there has been no school, although he likes to study but now he is helping him family this way and this is fun too! There was something in the way he said it, that my heart warmed up to him.
Yes he is right, the school of life has a lesson for each of us at every turn.
If we choose to see it so.
Although fate has ordained his life to be so in this now, I blessed him silently from my heart for a better life in time.
I salute the little boy’s budding entrepreneurial spirit.
💙🙏💙
Savvy
June 8, 2022 at 3:02 am
SMiLes Dear Savvy After 19 Years
of School, 3 Degrees at Close to
The Top of my Class, and 33 Years
of Work 25 Spent For Active Pay
For the Federal Government
Rising to Higher Standard
Pay Finally For 100 Percent
Retirement Pay Now At 62 Years
Golden Handcuffs Finally Free Now
As i Look Back Verily School Taught me
Enough to Read And Write and Balance
A Check-Book And Save Money too Other
Than That School And Work Mostly took
my Living Soul Away
True Love
is the First
Lesson and
The Lesson Truly
Alive to me The Rest
Was Originally Meant to
Make Life Better For All of Us
And Not So Complex and Stressful For Most
That Young Boy May Truly Become Meek Enough
To Remain Naked Enough Whole And Complete
Inhaling
Peace
Exhaling
Love While
It may Be
the Furrowed
Brow of the Man
in a Suit With Brief
Case Truly Living in HeLL ON EartH
True i Used to Be that Man Until i Found
my 5 Year-Old Child Before All the School
And Work Again No Longer Tied Down to Spoon Fed
Cultural
Clothing
Extra Tight Fitting
And Suffocating For Real
Yet Of Course if You Love
What You Do You No Longer Work
As Nature Shows Life is a Play for Breathing Free..:)
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