Look Beyond What's Seen

 

I saw an old man sitting alone at the bus stop, he's wearing a blue stripped shirt, black trouser kept up by the leather brown belt, he was wearing a pair of worn out leather sandals. His arms crossed, head up straight, eyes wandered probably hoping to get a glance of an upcoming bus, which nowhere to be seen.

It looks normal.

Until i found the worry plastered on his face. He was worried of something, but he hid it well, closed barrier between him and stranger so no one would ask him a thing. I never know what he was worrying about for the bus i was waiting came first.

I heard a kid asking countless questions to his father at the train station. It was annoying. He was asking literally everything. He was asking why was train created, how does a train work, is the man driving the train a driver or a pilot or is it a captain, why there are so many people in the station, why are people created. I heard his father answered every question with patience.

He is a father, and that was his kid after all.
But then i heard the kid asked, "Are we going on a vacation too?"
I peek at the kid and his father. The father was sitting straight, arms laid on both side of his thighs, eyes closed. He said, "not now".
 

Something was hidden in his answer.
 

"Will you buy me one toy?"
The kid was asking for a toy instead of toys.Is it because he understand that his father could only buy him one instead of dozens?
The father answered, "I will".

Then the kid continued his questions.

Sometimes we judged things too fast, judging from our point of view, comparing to what we expect as the 'better'. We used to see things just the way it looks like to us. Like we see a wall as a plain wall but behind the story of the wall was fathers working to bring home meals for his family, a man trying to save money so he can make a living, a boy hoping to get enough for buying things he desired or to simply make his loved ones happy.

Open your eyes, see around you, what do you see? 

No, not the things around you, not the things happening now, but what's behind it.
Open your heart, try to understand why something is the way it is. 

Learning from the old man, he probably needs help but he wasn't an open person. He maybe needs someone to talk to but too scared to start a conversation with a stranger. Not everyone in this world could easily ask around when they are lost. 

If you see one, ask them if they need any help, help them or find someone that could help them. Learning from the kid and the father, it was annoying to face a kid that asked too much, but aren't we all were just a kid with a bunch of questions...