Something to think about..

" Chotu, kitne paise hue?" "325 rupees, sir. And it would be kind of you to give me the change as I don't have any" The formally clad, good looking guy looks at chotu for a second when he hears unexpected sophistication coming from him while chotu is busy using his pretty cool looking calculator/wristwatch and not trying to show off even a little. What is a 10ish year old handsome looking boy doing in a grocery shop at 7 pm in a still pretty neat looking school uniform, while kids his age are playing outside enjoying the rains so rare, I wonder. Maybe he's helping out his father who owns the shop. Maybe he works there after school to make some money. Two very different scenarios I can think of as I picture chotu's reality. I have no idea what it is. My mind wanders and by default I end up feeling pity and think, he deserves better. All these underprivilaged deserve better. All the kids deserve better. All the poor deserve better. All the sick deserve better...and it's endless. I deserve better. I deserve so many things I didn't get. Chotu deserves so many things he didn't get.
The truth is, we get what we get. It's got nothing to do with what we deserve or not. Maybe God knew what kinda humans we'd grow up to be and He created us anyway. We didn't deserve it, but He did it anyway. The problem is that, we keep looking at life in retrospect and always end up feeling this way. A lot of people I know, do. Maybe they all don't have self pity or regrets, but at some point or other, they share this feeling.
See the truth is, again, we get what we get. And that is irrespective of what we do or don't do.