It was a usual Monday evening; I was walking down our lane with my little brother who was 6yrs and me 8yr old then!! I usually used to walk down with him to drop him to his tuition where he wouldn’t go without me, a sense of equality that if I go she too has to go kind of…..that still exists though we have grown and stay apart!!!
We have to cross a hospital and at the end of the lane is our destination the tuition class. The distance is of only 5mins of walk from home but which my brother and me used to take our own good time to cover it looking around , collecting flowers or fruits from the plants and the tress on the other end of the road playing around like all other kids enjoying their freedom on road!!
That day as we were passing the hospital my brother’s eye fell on the 5 rupee note that was fallen at the entrance gate of the hospital. He asked me whether he could pick it up I wasn’t sure what I was I supposed to do or tell so I told him not to touch it and asked him to move. But he still remained there looking at the note and telling me that it seems someone has put it down and asking me to change my decision as it wasn’t as bad as stealing.
Mom always used to tell us stories about good and bad things not to be done and how GOD would punish us in the later years from the crime we commit. So we were well aware of things what would happen to us if we lied or stole and so on…. Now this was the first time in our life we found money laying on the road no one to say we own it and 2 of us not knowing what to do. Just then a man was coming running down the lane I just wanted my brother to move from there so I said “see that man is coming for this money don’t pick it up lets leave” and started running down he dint want me to leave him there so he too came down.
As we entered his tuition class his madam was eagerly waiting for us as we had taken more time than usual. She asked my brother the reason for being late and he narrated the whole story…..Madam was happy seeing our honesty!!
As the years passed we forgot all this and we faced the world we found that there’s no one who believes in such policies I myself had a bad experience when I dropped my wallet in my class room and got back to search it within 2mins or so I dint find it nor none of my classmates returned it to me. At that time I was in a very bad situation away from home in hostel losing my money, debit cards and college id just created mess in my life…that time I thought why had I to be honest??
Some days back when my husband returned from work he had an incident to narrate while he was stepping out of his office he found a 50 rupees note lying at the entrance he picked it up and he asked two there people around whether it belonged to them when it wasn’t anyone’s there he handed it to the security and said “please see that you hand it over to the person who comes looking out for this note and if no one comes keep it to yourself!!”
Listening to this I had a smile on my face and felt what if he doesn’t give it to the owner and keeps it to himself?? But after seeing my hubby’s face the proud feeling he bore ,the piece of mind and happiness he was feeling for the honest deed he had done made me happy………………
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