Turned away!

 

I have often noticed tall trees bending to be in the sunlight,  when thick foliage of a taller tree obstructs its straight path upwards. 

The above picture is an illustration of this phenomenon in nature!

Both the coconut palms inclined inwards one more than the other, as taller trees were on their side. In a wooded area this is conspicuous and is the pattern. 

It is while caught in a traffic congestion one gets to know a lot about human behaviour! It is one out of ten times, someone will let you have the right of passage!

The coconut palm needs to bend in order for it to bear fruits. 

Being accommodative is not known to large and taller trees. Often it is the smaller and slender trees that would adopt this pattern. 

The weak is made to bend!

I listened to the story of a neighbour who owes money to the bank, which he is repaying on a monthly basis. He has to pay back about on hundred thousand rupees more. He was asked to pay double the amount than he agreed to earlier, which is beyond his reach as of now. The bank sent a notice to hypothecate his property in lieu of the default. As he narrated this recent event, I too felt awful about this form of harassment of a weak person, whose means of his subsistence is his daily income. The rich people who take loans, when they default, they have the means  and the contacts to escape being trapped. 

The weak are often pushed to bend!

This is in contrast to the parable of the Good Samaritan, that Jesus of Nazareth spoke, who in that parable offered to attend on to the wounds of a traveller,  way laid,  injured and robbed. 

This neighbour told me of two people who came forward to help him if matters were to become worse for him!

I remember occasions when becoming a friend of a weak person can be redeeming for him! I recall a colleague offering to support a mother, who needed help to pay back the bank loan since her husband became too ill to work!

Remember the weak, their struggles to strive are too many. Alone they struggle! A helping hand goes along way!   

M.C.Mathew(text and photo)