Its funny how we can find inspiration or motivation in the commonest of things (you know what’s funnier? how I always keep running into these things that I need to post about while the planned posts wait till eternity 
). Anyway, you won’t believe what happened today, read on.
Some of us friends were having lunch in one of the friends’ office and after that, we came out to hire autos back to our respective offices. I was bargaining and this autowallah agreed to my price but asked me to wait till he calls the other autowallah who will take me there. So, now appeared the other autowallah. He was physically challenged and actually walked on 4 limbs. YES. I couldn’t believe that he is the guy who will drive me there. I was actually a little scared about whether he would be able to do that. Better sense prevailed and I realized that he must be doing it for quite some time. I wouldn’t have been able to say that I am scared to go with him anyway and more importantly, I did not want to say that at all. So, yes, while the bigger lesson is, of course, that he is an auto driver for earning a living while having such a challenging problem at hand but there’s another very unbelievable lesson.
When we reached the destination, I did not have the required change. As soon as I took out the money, he himself said, without even letting me try to ask for change around, that this would be fine. He can take 10 rupees less. I insisted that he waits a minute and asked somebody on the road for change which I did not get and he very calmly told me to let it go. I do realize that he probably let it go because he himself cannot walk around asking for change but what is equally important is the fact that he was pretty calm about it. Having a problem is one thing but accepting and dealing with it peacefully is completely another. And to call a man walking on four limbs as ‘having a problem’ is an understatement. Bravery and endurance. 🙂
I wish him all the luck in life!
Life of Srish 
Awesome 🙂
Its hard to find genuine autowallahs, let alone great ones like him.
Respect for the man (y)
True that, Bavneet 🙂
More power to him! I hope he has the best lined up for him.
Yeah, I too hope the same. 🙂
Hats off to the autowallah !! To find people like that even now…. Hope you run into the same auto guy and next time u can give him the ten rupees too shrishty 🙂
Yeah, that’s a wonderful line of thought Shruti. 🙂 Thanks for visiting dear, hope to see you more here 😀
Sure srishty !!!
Wonderful that your shared this experience. Unlikely to come across such able minded people even if they’re differently abled.
You are so right, it is difficult to find such people, people just know how to crib these days and are hardly thankful for anything.
wow! a nice autowallah. That doesn’t happen very often.
I know right! and to see that coming from a differently-abled person!True inspiration he is to all of us.
Sometimes you get inspiration from something so unexpected na….I wish there are more people who are differently abled not disabled 🙂
I wish people are more thankful towards what they have. 🙂
Rarely do we come across such autowallahs.
On my trip to Hyderabad some months back, I met one ‘over-qualified’ autowallah. He had an amazing story. Do check it if you are interested: http://antarik.blogspot.in/2014/02/the-autowallah-with-most-inspirational.html
checking it out now :D. thanks for visiting 🙂