An experience towards Ending Humanity...

Today while going to my work place I was troubled on traffic. Traffic is a force of habit but today's peculiar incident on usual traffic made the day unusual. During red signal, when everyone including me was waiting for green signal to move on, suddenly an old person came into my sight who was coping up in the midstream of traffic.   At once,  it appeared like a beggar, but soon I apprehended that he was an old man who was trying to sell out pens to the mob. He was shabbily dressed,  weak and exhausted but his eyes were glowing with a hope that somebody would purchase his pens. All of a sudden an idea splitted my mind and I found myself enveloped with insecurity. I thought the old man as a fraud, terrorists etc. Forthwhile,  I came out with perplexity and started exploring for my wallet to purchase his pens. I found some money but the old man was disappeared in the crowds of  big vehicles and miserable people. I could not turned back in search of the old man, even it was not feasible to move back on the congested road. The red light turned green, People were moving but I was freezed. The Situation hoaxed me. I was surprised and full of regret that being an educationist I did not understand the value of pen and the hidden message of hard work and humanity My journey was raising question on my humanity and the inferiority of the so called superior  people sitting inside the air conditioned vehicle. 

I recalled a poem written by Dr, Haribansh Rai Bachchan-

भूल गया है क्यों इंसान?
सबकी है मिटटी की काया,
सब पर नभ की निर्मल छाया,
यहाँ नहीं कोई आया है ले विशेष वरदान.
भूल गया है क्यों इंसान?