POEMS BY ONE MICAIAH
Pray
For Yourself Too
There is a particular
man I see every time I’m going home from school. I have always wondered how
cool his life would have been if he had decided to do some certain things
earlier in his life. Sometimes, I even wonder how he had actually lived his
life up until the very first time I saw him. I was very sure he had lived it in
a very funny way.
The funniest part
would be that he might not even realize he could have lived a better life
before it became too late for him. Anyways, people need to learn and that’s why
I think we need to live life the way it is; more reason it’s referred to as
life.
I was not much of his
observer the first time I saw him. He was just begging for financial help from
passengers in the bus yet to move, as normal beggars would. He said many
prayers and solicited for money to eat. He was not a special kind of beggar;
not the kind that had family issues or some sorts of other issues related to
that. He was just one of the lazy beggars; I said to myself, never lazy to beg,
but lazy to work or to have worked.
He looked quiet old
too, with hairs fully coloured grey as an indicator. Not so much people
extended a hand of help though, but I was not bothered about that.
Thereafter, I met the
same man doing the same thing not once or twice or even thrice. For real, I
think it is now uncountable for me to see someone do the same thing every
single time I see the person. I can almost predict his whole act and even
recite every single word he is going to say accordingly without making any
mistake. The only reason I had not confronted the man is basically due to the
fact that I’m a strict introvert and because I love learning, even if it is
from the most annoying things in my life.
If there is one thing
I have learnt from beggars like his, it will be that about 95%, if not all,
knows how to pray richly. Their prayers can nearly bring out money from your
pockets unconsciously.
However, of the man
prayers, just one of it seems to open the thinking part of my brain. Every time
I hear it, I get angrier with the man. My anger was not because the man repeats
these words exactly the same way, but because first, he seems the same every
time I see him and I think he is more stupid for every single time he says that
particular prayer again. At least if I am going to be a beggar like his, I should
be creative to an extent.
Let us reason
together. Every day, since I knew this man, he never stopped adding, “you will
buy your own motor and you won’t enter public transport again” to his pile of
fine prayers. And, he kept repeating this every time to everybody he meets.
Now, imagine if that
particular prayer had been answered; because I cannot imagine someone praying
if he does not want the prayer to be answered, instead it should not be said at
all. If answered, it means someone like me, whom he had met about some months
ago, would have stopped going to the bus stop to get a bus home, likewise the
countless number of people he would have met also. Now tell me, who would be
left to give him money if we all have our own motor and not entering public
transport again?
After resolving that
issue in my head, I got so angry I began questioning myself why the man, as old
as he is, is begging at that age. First of all, things, I thought it was
probably due to less-seriousness.
Nevertheless, I am
not sure he has ever said those prayers before to himself. Even if he had no
job, I think repeating those prayers to himself alone would have gone a long
way into reshaping his life. I believe his life will not be as bad as it is now.
And so, I still look forward to a day I can boldly confront him and shout it to
his face that he should, “Pray for
yourself too.”
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