Begging – A new Profession… and it’s growing prospects…

[This article has been written in a sarcastic tone.]

My last train journey forced me to write this article. I was in the train when a child of about 4-5 year came and starts begging for money.

You must also have experience this type of situation. It’s not unusual to see the beggars in train journey.  Mostly they are children.

 

Hungry face, negligible clothes on their body, the situation automatically demands help. Actually it is the poor condition that strikes your mind and heart.

We start feeling their pains. It is the pain in their eyes which actually forced your heart to help them by giving money. 

This happens especially when that beggar is a child. These all creates an environment in which automatically your hand goes into your wallet and money comes out.

So effected by the created environment you give them some money (They usually accept money only not the food  ... strange enough  ... seeing the rise in food inflation)

Anyways u gave them money and the show end... They move ahead to repeat the same show in front of some other passenger...

And as soon as the magician (beggar) went, its effect also ended. All that hungry face, help seeking eyes went out from your mind and you stop thinking about the show. Anyways why you should think? You have seen a performance and you paid for that also.

Isn’t it was an easy way to earn money. You have to impress the audience by your presentation and happily they will give you money.

I think we can include begging in the list of professional job. The job advertisement for the post of begging can be something like this.

Job – Begging

Required skills –

• Magical tricks (We need people who can hypnotized others),
• Acting skills (your acting should be natural),
• Presentation skills (you should be good enough to present your pain, hunger in front of others)

Job type – Part time /Full time.

Salary – Depends on your performance.

Place of Posting – Near by railway station.

Note: Children Preferred.

I feel proud on myself when I read this last point. Children preferred. This is the reason why this profession is growing. It is giving opportunity to the children. No other company, no other profession had ever thought about children, as they prefer young adults only.

We should also thanks to the people who are encouraging the children or their parents to choose this profession. Seriously, I don’t think the children are matured enough to understand the benefits of this profession.

Someone is guiding them, to choose the right career path. But our government never encourages such great people. They are doing such a great job by removing this unemployment problem. Actually these are the people who understand the root cause of the problem. Hats off to such people, they are really working hard to grow this profession.

I feel proud to be called as Indian. I mean people of which other country thinks so much for their children.

But there is a small problem, which I think government can solve easily. Our law doesn’t allow child labour. Although we hardly follow this law, but I think now there is need to change this law officially.  We should allow the children’s to work, at least as a beggar.

At last I can say that begging comes as a new opportunity for the children, to grow, to learn and to earn. And it’s our moral duty to support this. So it’s my appeal from all of you to help me by sharing this article so that we can force the government to allow the children's to work as a beggar.