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Monday, September 29, 2014
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The important things in lifeBy BALAMOHAN YUGENDERAN
What is precious to you? Your flat screen TV? Your nice car? To one little boy, it was a pebble.
A FEW years ago, while holidaying with my family in India, I had the opportunity to spend some time at one of the most luxurious and elegant hotels in the city of Agra, where the world famous Taj Mahal is located.
I also had the opportunity to do a lot of shopping; in fact, I went on something of a shopping spree. I just couldn抰 seem to stop spending money on things that I didn抰 really need.
Still contemplating what else I could buy, I stopped for lunch at a roadside restaurant. I ordered my food, and then started playing a game on my cell phone.
I was deeply involved in the game when, suddenly, I heard shouts and looked up. The shop owner was chasing someone around the tables. To my shock, I realised it was a little boy.
He looked like he was about four years old, and he had huge, shiny desperate eyes peering out of his face. He was barely clothed, and he was so skinny I could actually see his bones under his skin. He was crying and scrabbling around under the tables, searching for food while trying to avoid the shop owner.
When he approached my table, he saw me watching him and stared back at me with hope, wondering if I would give him something, and indeed, I did. I picked him up, seated him on my lap, and gave him my food.
He seemed ecstatic, as if he was being treated like a prince. He ate the chapati (flat bread) slowly with his hand, turning around to look at me warily from time to time to see if I was going to change my mind and chase him away too.
After I patted him a little bit, he seemed to feel reassured and quickly finished eating. He slid off my lap, and hugged me wordlessly. Then, he reached into his pocket and pulled out a shiny white pebble. Solemnly, he placed it in my hand as if it were a precious stone, and then turned around and ran away as fast as his legs could carry him.
At that moment, I realised something that has made me a better man today: what is a tiny thing to one person can mean the world to someone else. That pebble was obviously the little boy抯 most precious possession.
I have learned to appreciate every single thing and every person who is important to me the way that we are really meant to. To this day, I keep the white pebble under my pillow to constantly remind me about the important things in life.
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