17/07/2019
This Post is not Autism Related!
I was sitting inside a Burger outlet, was enjoying My meal, when all of a sudden I established an eye contact with a 5 year Old boy outside the burger outlet, he gave me a beautiful Smile...
At that very Moment I went outside and asked him,
Would you like to Eat Burger with me?
He instantly Said Yes! And came inside with me..
Later I asked who are you accompanying with?
He said I am with this Girl, he pointed outside...
I saw her and With a sign I asked her to come inside.. She kept staying outside and didn't come inside...
Then I went outside to bring her in..
and asked her if she can eat with me..
The smile on her face was so Beautiful that for a moment it filled my heart with contentment and Bliss!
Then she said, This burger Outlet Don't let us inside even if we have money!
I said no one will say you anything, come along!
She happily entered with me..
I called the waiter and said to take order from them..
The waiter response was Madam! If such children will come inside then customers complaint!
Here comes the Responsibility of staying polite and still creating a difference and change in the mindsets of people..
I asked the waiter to be on a side and converse with me so the children shouldn't listen to what he was saying...
I said I am paying for them, then what's the problem.. He said madam, customer complaint, they do not belong here..
I was surprisingly shocked since When we have set standards of allowing in a restaurent only a specific Class to come and sit...specific class whose clothes should not be torn and Smile shouldn't b broken!
Where it's written that Poor Children ( begging or Not begging) cannot b inside as it weighs down credibility of a restaurent..
I said him, if someone complains, direct them to me..I will talk to them..
At that present moment, I wasn't angry, I realized people are unaware and There is a need to create Awareness among them...
I was Focused on making this present moment, a Happy moment for them ❤️
I was stunned and impressed the way this small 5 year old was eating with proper table manners and know about use of cutlery.. When I asked from where did You learn this... He told me he has been watching people eating inside restaurent and learnt through them..
This Girl Along with her, when I asked her what she Loves? She couldn't understand what I asked, she said, for her Having 3 times Food is Love for her and her sisters eat too..
They don't Choose Begging, this is what they have been Taught.. Children are Children, they become what we make them.. What we set example for them..
Reason of Today's post is to create Awareness about..
*Don't Give Money to small children begging on signals, outside restaurent anywhere, when you give money to a child, you reinforce the begging behavior and you are taking active responsibility of Strengthening this culture of making small children beggars...
* You , me or anyone, if born in such conditions of poverty or what so ever, where their parents are begging as well , I could be sitting at his place, with eyes clearly having no kind memories of Childhood ,
and it's a mafia using these small Children ( he told me they collect money in the end of the day) few of us are not even their own children.. They just give money to our parents to survive and have food for one day..
Then I asked him what do u love?
He replied I love if I can have a Bag, some colors, I make paintings with Mud on the Road..
During this Time, I said him to come next week at the same place and we will have a Burger again...
Then when they went, all the people who are into This begging were there and he pointed towards his father, he was angry at him, I hugged and told me to see me next week same time.. He was happy and excited..
After a week, I went there again , made a bag for him, added some colors.. I waited for an hour.. No one Came..
So this made me realise the importance of Present Moment..
Once the Time is Passed, you Cannot bring it BACK!
This made me Happy, that I Chose Kindness, I chose Love, I chose acceptance...
I didn't Choose the Label the society has tagged him with...
We have to collectively, individually Be Kind and take active responsibility of Things and people around us..
We cannot just pass by, just because it is not happening to us.. It is not happening to our children...
Be kind and Choose Love ❤️
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Much Love ❤️
Via : Lubna Khawar
