Thursday, September 6, 2007

it doesnt come with age or money....

Self respect doesn’t come with age or money…not that I thought it did… the other day I got together with friends…u know how it is with them, even if u meet them after months there is a comfort level that cant be established with JUST ABOUT ANYONE. So anyways a drive to the India gate for chuski (it is supposedly very famous) was all we were looking forward to. Remembering the old days which will NEVER come back and catching up we ordered the chuski…(for those who arnt chuski lovers…at India gate u see lines of cars and this guy shouting at the top of his lungs….CHUSKI CHUSKI…TASTI CHUSKI…COME ….) English with a typical hindi accent…anyways just when we started having the delicious but messy chuski a young boy around 10 year old came to our car to sell sculptures…we weren’t interested and just thanked him but he was just had to show us all the variety. He said ‘ aap budha lew lijiye…ye bahut lucky hota hai, nahi to budha family…nahi to boat le lijiye…ye bhi bahut lucky hai’ he kept taking these sculptures out of his shirt…and all I said was ‘hume nahi chahiye, aap ye bechne ki jagah padte kyu nahi ?’ his reply to this was ‘me din me school jata hu aur raat ko ye bechta hu, aap le lo bahut lucky hai, mere paas bahut variety hai’ if it was otherwise I woun’t have given it a thought but his hard work and sincerity made him ask him to join us for a chuski, all he said was ‘me aise kisi se koi cheez nahi leta, me aapko aaapke liye kam price laga dunga lekin aise kuch nahi lunga’ …its been a week this incident happened but I still havnt forgotten THOSE words…and I NEVER WILL…