Story Of A Beggar Who Saved Money For 2 Years To Buy A Dress For His Daughter Proves That Fathers Are Kings!

Power Of Imperfection April 9, 2017April 11, 2017 Daughter, Determination, Father, Love

I came across a meaningful story about money and life and it touched me so much that I want to share this article with you. This story is about a beggar who saved money for 2 years to buy a dress for his daughter. How great a parent's love for his/her child, don't you think?

Do you have the problem of opening up your cupboard every morning and thinking, “Hmm, what should I wear today? I've got nothing to wear!” And at the next available weekend, we hop on down to the malls to go shopping for new clothes. This might seem an easy thing for us, but have we stopped to think how this simple act might be difficult for some people? I'd like you to know that there are many others in this world who do not have the same means as us, but yet make things happen out of sheer willpower.

This story is about MD. Kawsar Hossain, who begs for a living and managing to save up every single rupee for two years to buy his daughter a new dress.

Hossain had met with an accident one day, and unfortunately as a result, he had to amputate his right hand. As Hossain had no other means to support his family, he started to beg on the streets. One day, he walked into a store to buy a dress with loose change, the shopkeeper shouted at him. His daughter cried, but he did not give up.

After two years, he bought his daughter a yellow dress that she had always dreamed of.

I am sure you'd be touched as well after reading his story below:

“Yesterday, I was able to buy a new dress for my daughter after two years. While I handed sixty pieces of five taka note to the seller, he yelled at me for asking if I am a beggar. My daughter held my hand and cried to leave the shop by saying that she did not want to buy any dress.

I swept off her tears with one hand. Yes, I am a beggar. Ten years ago I had never thought in my nightmares that I have to live by begging from people. The night coach fell from the bridge and unbelievably I was alive. I was alive by becoming a disable. My youngest son often asked me where had I left my other hand. And my daughter Sumaiya feed me every day by saying she knows how difficult it is to do all work with one hand.

After two years my daughter is wearing a new dress, that’s why today I brought her with me to play for some time. Maybe I will not be able to earn anything today, but I wanted to roam around with my little girl. I secretly borrowed this mobile phone from my neighbour without informing my wife. My daughter has no picture and I want to make this day memorable for her. When one day I will have a phone I will take a lot of pictures of my children. I want to keep good memories. It’s very difficult to send my children to school, but I am educating them all. Sometimes they cannot attend the exam because giving exam fees is not always possible by me. On those days they feel very sad then I tell them, sometimes we can miss exams because the biggest exam is life which we are giving every day.

Now I will go for begging. I will place my daughter in a signal where she will wait for me. I will look at her from distant while begging. I feel shame while she looks at me when I lend my one hand to others. But she never leaves me alone. Because there are big cars, she thinks accident can happen again, these cars could run on me and I would die. Whenever I managed to get some money I return to home by holding my daughter’s hand. We do bazaar on our way and my daughter always carry that bag. During rain we love to get wet and talk about our dreams. In someday I do not get any money, on those days we return to home silently. On those days I feel like to die but at night when my children fall in sleep by holding me I feel being alive is not a bad thing. Only bad is when my daughter waits for me in the signal by keeping her head down. When I cannot look at her eye while begging. But today is different. Because today my daughter is very happy. Today this father is not a beggar. Today this father is a king and here is his princess.”

Touching ain't it? Do share this story with your friends and family if you believe that it would touch their lives as well.

Photo Credits: GMB Akash

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