12 or 1200 ? Make the Right Choice and Inventing Something Special Deep Inside You!

Let me share a pathetic, rude and unfortunately real incident that occurred right in front of me in 1995 or 96. I don't remember the exact date. But from then to now I cant be able to forget the scene. Whenever, wherever I found any chance to share that among my friends, relatives. colleagues etc. I shared instantly. This is the first time I'm posting it officially in a blog.

It was happened in my country, Bangladesh, at a public place where I used to go regularly then. In a shiny afternoon while I was there to buy something, a small crowd pulled my attention.

A man around 40-50 years old was half-lying beside the road with a poorly weak physical condition. He was trying to tell the peoples surrounding or passing by him that he was starving hungry from the last 24-26 hours. He was a poor and helpless man, had no money to buy some food to eat. Maximum people present there (including me) were familiar with his poor position. It was unknown that either he had a place to live or any relative in his contact.

Now the main point, that knocked my partial matured conscience (and still knocking) was - at that time the minimum cost of some food for his initial survival was just 12.00 (currency was not a vital point here). I don't know why no one (including me) took that step? My position was that I wanted to buy something very necessary for me costs 20.00 and that all I have that time. Though I can afford 12.00 for him and for my necessity I could arrange that amount again within less than an hour, but I didn't do that.

After 6-7 hours while I was returning through that same way surprisingly/coincidentally a bit bigger crowd draw my attention where the man was struggling. I found him dead there. I felt regret?

I heard discussing people present there that they had to do something with the corpse of that poor human being. As none of his relative ever found or known by anyone, it was decided to arrange a funeral for him which will cost around 1200.00 Two or three person among the crowd were instantly ready for bearing the amount! Within the next 15 minutes the money was arranged and they started the funeral process and has finished successfully!

The summary of those incidents which will be kept in my deeper mind (non erasable) till my death is - in our present so called developed twentieth century's social status define that we cannot spend an amount of 12.00 for a living human being that he/she needed deadly and whether we have 6-7 hours in hand for doing that. But we are ready to spend even 1200.00 within 15 minutes after his/her death.

So my question is, which should be our choice - 12 or 1200 ?