Pensive

I met a fakeer at the bakery shop round the corner of my house today. He was just as all of them are, imposingly begging money out of your pocket...saying things like the almighty may award you lots of money and progress, to the little shopkeeper boy. The poor boy gave him a couple of rupees. Then this baba turned to me and said a weird thing.... He said that if I honestly try to achieve something, destiny will always back me up.
I don't know what all beggars do to touch your chords and make you put your hand in your pocket, but this was something I heard for the first time. It was about trying honestly to get something.....not the usual crap about having good many children and socially acceptable husbands! And that's exact what made me look up to his face.....How can an old fakeer on the road have such a cool and piercing pair of eyes that instead of seeking pity, back your well-hidden innocence up?
I never before bothered to look carefully at the fakeers and babas plenty in Indian public spaces. Well! Who does? But this old man seemed to help me rather than begging for it!
He could be a professional mind reader and might know how to take money out of people of my age. But he won at that point of time....as I emptied all the change that the bakery-boy gave me in his sharp long fingered palm.
Then I could not look at him again. I thought he must be laughing at me.....
Now that I can think rationally I tried to recall how much money I could possibly have put on his hand. By the look on the face of that bakery-boy, it must have been quiet an amount....
ummm.....I could be that foolish at times? Was that exactly foolish of me? Or the thing he said really deserved the response I gave?
I think what he said was exactly what I needed. So the money I might have wasted was the fees for that! Its okay I guess....

whenever I try to think SERIUOSLY about life, it gets even more funnier!