THE KID

THE SKY ABOVE IS LIKE IMMENSE WITH GREAT ANGER. The wind is strong and the rain is heavy. There was no typhoon that day or even a storm but the sky seemed to have poured off everything it has. On that cold night, there was a boy left alone in the boulevard of darkness. The fog that has been brought upon by the gushing of rain and wind made it harder for the boy to see what the wicked sky had turned the pitiful land into. He is soaking wet. He is shivering yet he can’t do anything with his situation. No one is there to sympathize with his condition. He is just sitting in the corner of the street while hugging his knees close to him. To make his condition even worse, the last time that he had eaten was like days ago. He just lived each day by begging alms on by-passers.

The boy stood up. He walks across the streets because he can’t no longer tolerate the cold night. He knocked from one door to another asking for a cup of warm water but everyone seemed to just shut their doors on him. But he didn’t lose hope. He still continues to knock hoping that some kind-hearted person would provide him what he needs for the moment.

Then a lady opens her door for him. The lady can see the innocence of the boy through his eyes. She can feel that the boy had suffered much. She lets the boy in, offers him clothes and asked him to stay close to the chimney so that he can feel warm. She asked the boy for something to eat but the boy insisted, he said that all he ever wanted was just a cup of warm water. The lady went inside the kitchen and gets something to drink. She didn’t give the boy warm water but with cup of warm milk instead. The kid is teary eyed while he was drinking the milk.
The boy said “How am I going to pay you, kind lady?.”

”You don’t have to pay me; it is righteous to help someone without asking anything in return.” The lady replied

Then after the rain had subsided, the boy went on his life in the street and gratified the lady.

AFTER SO MANY YEARS, the boy had turned into a professional doctor. He studied in the orphanage where he stayed. He is now a well renowned physician in the field of medicine. Then one day a lady was admitted in his ward with this peculiar disease and so before he started assessing the lady his heart pounds. That was the same lady who helped her several years ago. She was the one who opened the door for him and gave him a cup of milk. From that day on he gave his full attention to the lady. He spent his days and nights finding ways to cure the lady. And so with the guidance of Omnipotent One, he was successful. He was able to revive the lady from that rare disease.

The doctor asked the accounting department for the lady’s bill to be brought on his office. When the doctor received the bill, he gets a pen and wrote something on a piece of paper and asked a nurse to give it to the old lady. The lady is so nervous when he received the envelope for so she knows that even if she spend her own life working, he cant afford to pay for such. Reluctantly, she opened the envelope only to find out that there is only a piece of paper saying “PAID IN A CUP OF MILK!”