On my way on the walk I met a group of peo­ple all were laugh­ing out loudly. I stood their and tried to make out the rea­son for thier laugh­ter but I couldn’t. I was very curi­ous to find out what was the reason.

I walked up to them onto the green grass. Ah The morn­ing dew had made it so pleasent. I walked up to an elderly gen­tle­man and asked him what was the rea­son and why they had been laugh­ing for so long.

He replied this is a Laugh­ing group and they gather every morn­ing to meet and laugh their heart out so that they for­get all their wor­ries and have a won­der­ful day ahead. I had a smile on my face as I lis­tened to him.

I decided to try it out and we all laughed whole hart­edly. As we were laugh­ing my eyes fell on a small urchin girl who was sit­ting under the tree and cry­ing. Amongst so much of laugh­ter how can One cry. See­ing these peo­ple laugh all would have started to laugh.

I stopped and moved out of the group and went up to the lit­tle gal. I placed my hand on her head and asked. Sweet­gal why are u cry­ing? what is the mat­ter? Don’t you like the laugh?

She was still cry­ing. I sat beside her and took her in my lap and asked now tell me what is the mat­ter. She looked at me rub­bing her eyes with her mud­ded hand and said “I haven’t had food for the last two days and I am feel­ign very hun­gry. My father is not home yet and My mom is also not to be seen for the last one day”.

I was taken aback and did not know what to say to the gal. I looked around to see what i could do and then my eyes sparkled. I told her to come with me. She held on tight to my one lit­tle fin­ger as we walked across to the juice stall. I got her a glass of juice which she drank very quickly.

I asked if she wanted more and she sad no nod­dding her head. then I took her to the bak­ery next door and got her a piece of Bun. She did not eat it. I was surpirsed. I asked her whats the mat­ter and she said she wanted one more. I got her one more . Still she was sad. I asked and she said she wanted more. This time I got her two more.

She was very happy. Oh Her smile what a smile it was. it just made my day. It was more then what the laugh­ter club could give me.

I asked her why she wanted so many buns she sais very innocently…“you won’t come every­day then who will give me bun tomor­row… I feel very hun­gry so i will eat one today and one tomor­row and one day after”…

I had tears in my eyes hear­ing her inno­cent answer but her smile wiped my tears. .. She ran away eat­ing away at the bun.

I stood there for a while and then looked up in the sky. It was time for me to walk. I started on my path again.

God bless her.