Life is an Apple

In May 18, 2007, I passed a different route from my usual. On my way home…along the way a busy road nearby, I chanced a beggar, a little girl, and very young selling small round rugs for a living. I have met so many beggars in my lifetime. Some would just get your attention because you seem to be well-off, so to speak. Others have heart-breaking stories to move you with so much sympathy. But this little girl really touched my HEART. I bought a couple of her merchandise. It cost only two pesos but I gave her one hundred pesos and I told her to keep the change. I saw her face sparkled and lighted up with a big grin and a SMILE, the most beautiful and warm smile I have ever seen in my entire life as she repeatedly thanked me for what I gave her. As she went along her way and crossed the streets, I saw her went inside Seven Eleven Store and bought some doughnuts. I watched her bring the doughnuts to her family in a corner nearby the streets. From a distance, my eagerness to see her how she shared the doughnuts to the rest of her siblings made me feel elated with JOY. Likewise, the family was also smiling and I can feel their JOY as they partook the doughnuts. There was no commotion, no shouting, and no grabbing but instead there was a lot of giving. They were so happy with so little.  I walked and crossed the streets to their direction. I introduced myself and talked to them for a few minutes before I headed home. They were so simple and very warm. They even offered me some doughnuts and I took the smallest munchkin to join them. To tell you, even the doughnut that I usually eat from time to time tasted extra good. I said to myself, “Life is an APPLE"…this is the best day of my life….again. These people were real people. They were sincere with the JOY they shared. They had dignity in their poverty. They had HOPE. They had LOVE and most especially they had GOD. This is just one of my stories and I wanted to share it with you. It touched my HEART and I hope it also touched yours. Everyday as we go about our daily task we encounter a lot of experiences, some would give us frustrations, other would make us upset but only few had left "foot prints" in our HEARTS.Learn to appreciate little things around us because we will never know that one will inspire us in some ways or the other. It did to me. Life is an APPLE, indeed!!!