What goes around comes around

There is an old saying... 'What goes around comes around. Today I am sending you this story, and I'm asking you to pass it on. Let this chain of compassion be unbroken. 

One day a man saw an old lady, stranded on the side of the road, but even in the dim light of day, he could see she needed help. So he stopped in front of her Maruti.

Even with the smile on his face, she looked worried. No one had stopped to help for the last hour or so.  Was he going to hurt her? He didn't look safe; he looked poor and hungry.

He said, 'I'm here to help you, ma'am. Why don't you wait in the car where it's warm? By the way, my name is Billu Barber.'         

Well, all she had was a flat tire, but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Billu crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, bruising his hands. 

Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt.

As he was tightening up the lug nuts, she rolled down the window and began to talk to him. She told him that she was from Jorbagh and was only just passing through. She couldn't thank him enough for coming to her aid.

Billu just smiled as he closed her trunk. The lady asked how much she owed him. Any amount would have been all right with her. She already imagined all the awful things that could have happened had he not stopped. 

Billu never thought twice before politely refusing her offer. This was not a job to him. This was just helping someone in need, and he knew there were plenty, who had given him a hand in the past. 

He told her that if she really wanted to pay him back, the next time she saw someone who needed help, she could give that person the assistance they needed, and Billu added, 'And 

think of me.'

He waited until she started her car and drove off. It had been a cold and depressing day, but he felt good as he headed for home, disappearing into the twilight.

The old lady reached home & her house maid Shanti opened the door for her. She bought a clean towel to wipe her wet hair. She had a sweet smile, one that even being busy for the whole day with household chores couldn't erase. 

The lady already knew that her housemaid Shanti was in advanced pregnancy, but for the first time old lady was appreciating that Shanti had never let the strain and aches change her attitude towards work. 

The old lady felt bad how someone who is in such advanced pregnancy has to work so hard & so late. She was shocked at zeal of her house maid Shanti to make her comfortable. Then she remembered Billu .

After the lady finished her meal, she paid her 10 noted of Rs1000 and said please from tommorrow onwards take rest & rejoin after you give birth to you baby. 

Shanti was shocked & didn't know what to say. She needed the money badly. Shanti quickly said you can deduct this money from my salary when I rejoin.

There were tears in her eyes when Shanti heard what the lady said : 'You don't owe me anything. Somebody today helped me out, the way I'm helping you. If you really want to pay me back, here is what you do: Do not let this chain of love end with you.'

The house maid Shanti cleared the kitchen & completed her work & went back home. That night when she got home  and climbed into bed, she was thinking about the money and what the lady had said. How could the lady have known how much she and her husband needed it? With the baby due next month, it was going to be hard...

She knew how worried her husband was, and as he lay sleeping next to her, she gave him a soft kiss and whispered soft and low, 'Everything's going to be all right... I love you, Billu.'  

Forwarded By CA Dinesh Gupta