I am at a truly inspired level since the past few days.
It’s got nothing to do with a promotion or acruing more money or anything remotely like that.
I just got an email from one friend about this gentleman from Madurai… Mr. Narayanan Krishnan… I read it at length (In spite of the chaos happening in my office at the moment) and that email made me look at life, my life and what I want to do with it.
I don’t know how many times I would have told this to myself that I will some day dedicate some of my time to the helpless and the poor… well mostly it was in my mind and rest of the times it was on paper… I mean by blogging and stuff. Imagine I actually started talking about it even without taking any step towards it and how good is that?
I hear that this guy was about to embark on a high level in his career and then bingo! Something happened within him… He held himself back and did what he was meant to do. Serve the needy and the poorest of them all.
Mr. Krishnan prepares food for these underprivileged and feeds almost 400 stomachs a day. Isn’t that amazing? I mean imagine you take up a cause and work towards it everyday… What a satisfaction it would give you.
You are hungry and just want to eat anything. Suddenly you mom or wife comes over and serves you the dish she has prepared with all her love and care.
You know exactly how they feel when you have eaten well! Now just imagine what it would feel to this gentleman taking this as a job everyday for no monetary benefit or whatever!
Now this is the kind of service that has inspired the Human inside me. I read it over and over yesterday and I am still not able to come to my terms.
We are so busy with our work and life. No time to stand. No time to even stare. And obviously no time for any of these.
All we do at the end of the year is put some money in a temple hoping our sinful souls will be cleansed. Well it does many times but is that all we should do at the end of the day?
I now come to resent the fact that all these things are just passe. A quick way to wiggle out of a situation.
I think I would rather worry about the hand that stretches out to me at the signal asking for a meager penny or a cry at the end of the street where an urchin lay barely naked awaiting her next morsel of food.
As for the temples, I’d leave them to the rich paupers… Coz’ God has enough money!
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