Beggars, we all are!

I’ve been living in this place for almost three years. The place for those of you who know it’s called Porta Susa. It is one of the main train station in Turin (Italy).  5 minutes in feet going the only Mac Donald of this area you’ll see m triangular old building. And this old place, in this building without elevator, at the last floor you will find my young man room. This place of mine has a lot of advantages, one of them is to be closed to a market area, this market it is called “Porta Palazzo! You will find any kind of thing in that market from clothes to fishes; everything lives in harmony in that chaos. Since you know where we are  let’s talk about the main object.

Along the way to that market, there is that old woman. Seating alongside the road. Someday, you will find her with picture of Jesus, other days with the picture of Mary and some other day it will be just her with her close that will make even a fish swept.  She has all the perfect positions, all the tones of voice to touch you right in your human hood. She will be asking you anything, if is not money she wants part of your purchase; “ just give me one orange”; “ Please one banana” and so on. I saw that for almost three years but today I saw, and I saw myself. I saw her and I saw of my closed friends. I saw and I understood the different level of life. The old lady seating alongside the road begs, she does what everyone of us does. The truth is that, we are all beggars. The only difference is that we select the place, the person to ask the favor in private place or cleaner places.

·        People pray every day, begging for a better life.

·        Some go to work begging their owner to give them what necessary to survive.

·         Some of us begs for jobs every day;

·        Some of us beg for love (those ones make life of others unbearable), for compassion, for food;

As you can see life itself it is made of begging, we beg from God, from our government, from our family members, from our lovers. And so, we all want something, seems that the need to have is always constant in our life. We even beg for more days in life.

So you are beggar, I’m a beggar too,  and we do it without knowing it, therefore anytime you see a beggar alongside the road don’t look down on him and even if you might feel like it, just take a look at what you have been doing so far.

Simon Juste