the pooh bear boy~

the best thing with going back is probably the feeling of familiarity. how i feel that i know the places around my home, visiting late night supper with my mum and all. so one night my mum, auntie and i went for noodle nearby my place after a whole day of shopping (hehe!). this is probably part of the reason why i always gain weight in jakarta! it seems mothers take delight feeding their children continuously. definitely something i don't quite comprehend, but o well maybe it's a mother thing? o_0

anyway while waiting for our food, a little boy approached us. first we were curious what he wanted *immediately feeling my wallet in case he's a pickpocket haha.. hey i was in jakarta after all, to give them credit the pickpocketers in indon are good!* turns out he was selling some traditional cake and asking people from table to table if they are interested to buy some.

i couldn't help feeling a deep sense of pity for this boy. he's no more than 7? maybe 8 years old? looked like one of the neighbourhood boys actually, clean and decent looking but there he was at 10.30pm in the late hour of the evening trying to sell some cakes. he had this pooh bear sling bag to probably act as his purse.

first thing in my mind was doesn't he need to go to school the next morning?

hmmm... it was heartbreaking more than anything else~

i didn't buy anything from that boy, until now i'm also not sure why i didn't buy anything. would i be helping him if i buy a few tidbits from him? or maybe his parents will ask him to sell more even after that? i dunno... it was reflex more than anything else to say "no thank you" the moment he asked i guess..

sometimes we wonder about our childhood and feel that others had it better than we did. some were so very lucky. yes, i'm not denying that fact. some were, some ARE lucky however don't forget those who were (are) less fortunate than us (believe me, there are MANY).

hey, that's life, we can't choose how we're borne i suppose. but we can choose how we live. make the best out of what we're given and we'll be fine...

i really do hope that pooh bear boy can grow up as someone with a bright bright future ahead of him though~ hmmm....