She asked him, 'How much are you selling the apples for?'
The old seller replied, '$1 for an apple, Madam.'
She said to him, 'I will take 7 apples for $5 or I will leave.'
The old seller replied, 'Come take them at the price you want. Maybe this is a good beginning because I have not been able to sell even a single apple today.
She took the apples and walked away feeling she has won. She got into her fancy car and went to a posh restaurant with her friend.
There, she and her friend, ordered whatever they liked. They ate a little and left a lot of what they ordered. Then she went to pay the bill. The bill costed her $160. She gave $200 and asked the owner of the restaurant to keep the change.
This incident might have seemed quite normal to the owner, but very painful to the poor fruit seller.
The point is,
Why do we always show we have the power when we buy from the needy ones?
And why do we get generous to those who do not even need our generosity?
I once read somewhere:
"My father used to buy simple goods from poor people at high prices, even though he did not need them. Sometimes he even used to pay extra for them. I got concerned by this act and asked him why he does so?"
Then my father replied, "It is a charity wrapped with dignity, my child."
_from https://www.instagram.com/undocumentarian/
Ideas, Comments, Exaggerations, Delusions, Rants, Inspirations, and Secrets. I like to show the heavenly in the ordinary. But sometimes, to echo George Orwell, "I write because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing." Sometimes.
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