Thursday, November 16, 2006
Die die must help
Good morning,
Helping is a chance, it is not always a capability.
Latief was a poor young Iranian who worked in a building construction site. One day his co-worker Jaafar fell and broke his leg. The next day his young son Rahmat came to work to help the family to survive. Rahmat lacked the physique and messed up the heavy work although Latief was helpful to him. Latief also got into a fight with another worker, partly as a consequence of Rahmat's fault, and as a result, Latief was assigned to work elsewhere while Rahmat took upLatief's easier duties. Rahmat performed well and was praised by all the workers while Latief resented all this and he became very unfriendly to Rahmat.
One day Latief accidentally discovered that Rahmat was a young girl. This changed his feeling for Rahmat completely. He became very helpful and protective over Rahmat. He also spruced up his appearance.
The authorities were vigilant about the employment of Afghan workers. Rahmat was an Afghan and she was working illegally. One day she had a narrow escape and did not return to work. Latief was restless and he went searching for her. He found her among a group of women lugging large stones from the stream, stumbling and falling under the heavy load. He was very sad, yet he could not go near and help her, because of their Iranian culture. So he watched despondently from afar.
Later, Latief pleaded to the point of tears with his boss, Memar, to hand over all his earnings, claiming that it was desperately needed for his very ill sister; he wanted to give it to Jafaar who was still unable to work. He arranged with Jafaar's good friend, Solton, to pass the money as he was embarrassed to hand it over himself. The next day when he went to check withSolton; he was met by Jafaar instead. Jafaar informed him that Solton had returned to Afghanistan. Jafaar also told him that he was unable to take the money Solton had borrowed for him because Solton had more urgent and desperate need of it than himself. He also told Latief that Solton had vowed to repay the lender. Thus, Latief's life saving went astray.
Latief continued to be very upset to see Rahmat suffering and unable to help. Then he bought a pair of crutches, meant for Jafaar, but when he arrived he overheard more plight of Jafaar which included his sister's. Quietly he left the crutches by the door.
When Jafaar came by the work site the next day Latief was happy to see him mobile with the crutches. Jafaar had come to borrow money fromMemar the boss who was his good friend, but he was proud and left without anything because Memar had only what he had in his pockets for him.
With all his earnings and savings gone, and still unable to help, Latief sold his last possession, his passport. With the money he faced Jafaar, saying that the money came fromMemar. He also stated that Memar had more due to him because of his injury. Under the circumstances Jafaar accepted the money, vowing to pay it back totally.
With the money Jafaar quickly arranged and left for home in Afghanistan. As the truck rolled off, Latief could only stand still, with all his feelings bottled up within himself. He had no money left and his girl friend had left. But he was proud of himself, he had done all he could do, to his last capability.
Have a nice day
Ronald
Helping is a chance, it is not always a capability.
Latief was a poor young Iranian who worked in a building construction site. One day his co-worker Jaafar fell and broke his leg. The next day his young son Rahmat came to work to help the family to survive. Rahmat lacked the physique and messed up the heavy work although Latief was helpful to him. Latief also got into a fight with another worker, partly as a consequence of Rahmat's fault, and as a result, Latief was assigned to work elsewhere while Rahmat took upLatief's easier duties. Rahmat performed well and was praised by all the workers while Latief resented all this and he became very unfriendly to Rahmat.
One day Latief accidentally discovered that Rahmat was a young girl. This changed his feeling for Rahmat completely. He became very helpful and protective over Rahmat. He also spruced up his appearance.
The authorities were vigilant about the employment of Afghan workers. Rahmat was an Afghan and she was working illegally. One day she had a narrow escape and did not return to work. Latief was restless and he went searching for her. He found her among a group of women lugging large stones from the stream, stumbling and falling under the heavy load. He was very sad, yet he could not go near and help her, because of their Iranian culture. So he watched despondently from afar.
Later, Latief pleaded to the point of tears with his boss, Memar, to hand over all his earnings, claiming that it was desperately needed for his very ill sister; he wanted to give it to Jafaar who was still unable to work. He arranged with Jafaar's good friend, Solton, to pass the money as he was embarrassed to hand it over himself. The next day when he went to check withSolton; he was met by Jafaar instead. Jafaar informed him that Solton had returned to Afghanistan. Jafaar also told him that he was unable to take the money Solton had borrowed for him because Solton had more urgent and desperate need of it than himself. He also told Latief that Solton had vowed to repay the lender. Thus, Latief's life saving went astray.
Latief continued to be very upset to see Rahmat suffering and unable to help. Then he bought a pair of crutches, meant for Jafaar, but when he arrived he overheard more plight of Jafaar which included his sister's. Quietly he left the crutches by the door.
When Jafaar came by the work site the next day Latief was happy to see him mobile with the crutches. Jafaar had come to borrow money fromMemar the boss who was his good friend, but he was proud and left without anything because Memar had only what he had in his pockets for him.
With all his earnings and savings gone, and still unable to help, Latief sold his last possession, his passport. With the money he faced Jafaar, saying that the money came fromMemar. He also stated that Memar had more due to him because of his injury. Under the circumstances Jafaar accepted the money, vowing to pay it back totally.
With the money Jafaar quickly arranged and left for home in Afghanistan. As the truck rolled off, Latief could only stand still, with all his feelings bottled up within himself. He had no money left and his girl friend had left. But he was proud of himself, he had done all he could do, to his last capability.
Have a nice day
Ronald
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