Saturday, October 4, 2008










It was on December 17th 2007, Mr. Philip Samuel was approaching the Jubilee Garden ahead of the London Eye. His wrist watch showed exactly 7.30 P.M. He climbed the bridge across the Thames river and sat in his usual place on the right side to have a sight of the London eye. He loves watching people in the Jubilee Garden and the live music played there in the garden. He was feeling hungry and worried about the sympathy of the English people for the financially challenged people is coming down drastically. He didn’t even get a single penny after a long day standing nearby the Waterloo station. He felt very bad for being a beggar in the rich country and about the unfortunate birth of his life at the age of twenty.








Worried about tomorrow and he slept off in the bridge. It started drizzling and the weather was so freezing. Suddenly he felt something and heard a trivial sound in the bridge nearby him. He saw a tall lady standing nearby him looking at the riverside. He woke up and saw his wrist watch it showed 10.45 P.M. The lady was wearing a woolen jacket of purple color. She seemed to be in her late twenties. Philip Samuel tried to grab some attention and he got it. She came near and looked at him. She could find out the hungry from his tired eyes. She asked him empathetically did u have your dinner ?



He didn’t reply, but he was still looking at her kindly. She offered him a pound and asked him to keep it. He was silent still. She understood that he is very hungry and asked him to come with her if he needs some food. He started walking with her, after a walk for about twenty minutes they reached her home. She asked him to stand outside and went inside her home. It started raining heavily and the poor beggar was standing in the rain. She asked him to come inside and offered him a towel. He sat on the dinning table as per her instruction. After the dinner the beggar looked at her gratefully with silent words.


It was raining heavily so she asked to sleep him on the sofa cum bed in the living room. The beggar laid on the bed and she went inside the room. Tears dropped out of the beggar’s eyes. He was looking the living room’s ceiling and the photos mounted on the wall. He saw a old lady’s photo and few others mounted on the wall and he was wondering why none of them were there in the house. By that time she came to living room and stood next to him. He noticed that she is on her white transparent night dress. She told him that the heater is not working in her room and they have to share the same bed in the living room. His mind was wavering here and there and hundreds of thoughts are flowing in his brain cells. She asked him to move so that she can lay by his side. Philip moved onto his side and felt a sudden jolt. He lately realized that he is falling down from the bridge and he knows well that this is the last dream in his life