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You are the Change

Today, when my car was waiting at the traffic signal, a boy came up to me. He was in his teens and was holding a piece of cloth. He went and, without saying any word, he started cleaning the front mirror screen of the car with it. After he had cleaned it, I gave him a 5-rupee coin. He took it and went away to another car. During the whole episode, a beggar came to the car next to me and he asked the driver for money. The driver gave him a 5-rupee coin too. These two beings were equal in the amount of effort they were both putting in to earn a livelihood. But the main difference was attitude. One preferred to live life with self-esteem and pride, whereas the other traded his life for it. However, the one who has traded might go home with a little more money than the former one, but that doesn’t mean this person is successful. Success is a relative term. It depends on  what you had earlier and through what you have to go through in order to achieve what you have now. Success is not a des