Angel...?

I've never seen him. I've never noticed him. I didn't even know if he even existed. Nor did he know me.... And yet ...he has touched my life...














How many of us will risk our lives for another person?? Some might be courageous enough to die for their countrymen, others might be loyal enough to die for their loved ones....but will any of us risk everything we have...from hopes, to dreams, to even our life ; all for a stranger..???
Well, it was an afternoon like any other and i was happy after chatting with my friends and orkutting. While returning from the cafe i stamped over something...something that felt like a half filled cycle tyre. When i looked down however....it was a huge snake!!!!!!!!!!!!! I screamed and jumped...and then felt a sting. That moment, i knew that i shouldn't panic..

A few more minutes passed and while everybody was pathetically talking about stupid solutions like calling the principal and all, from nowhere, a man dropped down, untied the dupatta around my foot and started sucking out the venom (if any)...I couldn't see his face. All i saw was that he wore a worn out, torn denim cap and he'd thrown off a spade like thing while he dropped down (from heaven..??) . After a few tense moments of sucking and spitting the blood he looked up and said i was alright. Nevertheless, i was taken to a hospital (where the docs's main aim was to bankrupt me...but i was smart you see ;D ).

I was discharged the next morning and when i was back i started searching for the face i couldn't see...for that familiar cap, only so that i could thank him (and perhaps to make sure if he was real and human!!) Well, on my way back, my friends told me they'd seen him cutting grass in our campus...(Oh, so he wasn't heavenly!) Well, i saw him. I saw him sitting with the cap in his hands. I went up to him and thanked him. I had no idea how i was to express my gratefulness. I had often seen my dad give money on such occasions and even seen the happiness in the other person's eyes. I felt odd but if that would help him, i ought to try. So i went forward with some money. (If he had some normal human traits, this test would surely reveal it!) The moment he spotted the note in my hand, he leapt away... with a strange combination of a smile and a colloquial "ae chi thoo..." !! (Oooops!!)....alrite no prizes for guessing--- i was embarassed aaand...touched...

Could someone be so selfless??...so full of values, even without the so called education??...so full of goodness even though he was only a 21st century human?? so full of dignity even in the face of poverty..?? so full of morals even when one can't afford them..??

Test result: He IS heavenly..!! Another angel sent by my krishna.....our God..The universal superpower...


Even today, i see him.. sometimes in the grasses, sometimes cleaning our classrooms, some times on his cycle and each time i pass him, i try to meet his eyes, to smile, so that he would know that i still remember him, that i'm still grateful to him, and that perhaps......perhaps now, i even owe this life to him..perhaps... But he never sees me. He never notices. A perfect Samaritan, A perfect, ideal human being--- never asking for anything in return for his deeds, not even gratitude...not even recognition... So, i couldn't do anything for him. Perhaps i would never get a chance to either. Perhaps i would...but, do i have the courage to face it??...i do not know...i only pray i would...

SO, THIS BLOG IS A TRIBUTE TO HIM...A SALUTE TO HIM...MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH ALL THATS GOOD FOR YOU...MAY EVERY HUMAN LEARN A LESSON FROM YOU...MAY THIS WORLD HAVE MORE PEOPLE LIKE YOU....THIS IS ALL I CAN DO FOR NOW...

THANK YOU.....

AND THANK GOD...FOR REASSURING ME TIME AND AGAIN...






YET...YET... i can't help but wish for more people like him. If only i had the courage to be like him....If only this world had more of people like him---who still believe in kinship, brotherhood, and selflessness rather than who believe in being negative and who don't mind killing one another in the name of making a living and in the name of the One divine power that manifests in all...



********* i wish ************ i pray**********