Once a man was walking down the street on his phone, busy with work. A small boy came up to him and asked if he could polish his shoes. The man was busy talking so he said No. After some time again the boy came and asked him to polish his shoes. The man got angry but he saw that the boy was looking weak and sick. So he allowed him to polish his shoes, telling him to polish them so that they start shining.
The boy started polishing slowly and the man became angry. The man added, “I have seen many cobblers who take money but don’t do the work properly. The boy couldn’t polish the shoes fast because he was sick and weak. The man thought he had wasted his money. He was about to scold the boy when a second boy arrived. That boy started polishing the shoes and after finishing, the shoes were very shiny. The man was happy with the second boy for his work so he took out his money but was confused about whom to pay. The man gave the money to the second boy who had done a good job.
But the boy took the money and gave it to the weak boy. The man called the second boy over and asked him why he gave the money to him. The boy told the man, “He fell from a running train and got hurt but he was the only one who was earning money for his family. His mother was old and couldn’t work We advised him to rest his body but he has a passion for work and rejected begging.
We have a group of cobblers and our boss is a good man. When the boy had the accident, the boss told all of us to help the boy polishing shoes. So, from that day on, all the cobblers helped him earn his living. As soon as the man knew about this he walked over to the boy and gave him some extra money.
Moral: A good person does not have a brain full of knowledge but a heart full of love, an ear ready to listen, and a hand willing to help.