Krishnam Raju | I have something to say…

Last year, the whole Christmas season has been a blessing for me. I have been showered with appreciations in my Church by my Pastor for all the service towards  Church. And on 31st night I was presented a special gift for my service towards Church.

For sometime, I felt like I don’t need appreciation because its my duty towards my God and towards my Church. I am doing what ever I could and I am just using my skills. I am not doing something extraordinary. But still my Pastor and Church members think that I am doing something very important for the Church. And I had to accept their appreciations.

Appreciation – is a wonderful thing that can happen to an individual. What I believe is, if every individual is appreciated for his/her good work then I am sure there will no one in this world who will be disappointed. Appreciations need not to be only of great achievements but should be for any thing good.

As human, first we need to appreciate each other. We should first appreciate our own family members and then our friends and then comes the society. Appreciations should not be limited to only those whom we know. Appreciations should be for unknown as well. Appreciation should be related to just good work and nothing else.

When ever some good work has been done then those who did it must be appreciated.

Appreciation makes a difference in everyone’s life. It encourages us and helps us to do good, give our best and to be happy for what we are doing.

Let’s start Appreciating everyone for their good work. No matter how big or small is that good work.

Appreciations makes everyone happy. Let’s make everyone feel happy for their good work!

Agree?

9:30 PM, Saturday, 10 May 2007
 
Today I woke up early in the morning as I had to do some of my house hold work like washing clothes, cleaning dust off the computer, arranging my books in the shelves and so on. Usually, I sleep till noon or 3 PM on Saturdays & Sundays. But today there was something exciting other than my regular work and that is; I had to be with my team at the Prasadz IMAX by 1 PM. We booked tickets for TASHAN for 1:30 PM show. I was the first to reach IMAX and was waiting for the rest to assemble. My Manager stepped in and the rest of the team members joined one by one.
 
My manager Kalpesh collected tickets from the ticket counter and we settled in our seats with in no time. The movie started and by God, it’s a super dooper flop. Songs are horrible and even the climax fight was a disaster. The climax fight was a mix of Matrix, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Rambo & WWF. The director redefined all the laws of Gravity in Physics, its better if I don’t talk much about it. But there is something positive about the movie. I must admit that Anil Kapoor (bhaiyya ji) did a wonderful job. Through out the movie he speaks in a very funny Hindi English Mix Language/Accent. For example: “You jaaying and maarings , nahi tho mein myself maardalings. I speakings, I slappings becos this is my areas,. No gustakimaffings”. And our Akshya Kumar was at his best in comedy and emotional scenes. You will love Akshay for his acting. Believe me the rest of the movie is dam horrible.
 
After the movie, my Manager left home and the rest of us (The team) guys decided to visit my home. I said “guys” because two of our team ladies did not come for the movie. How lucky they are. We started off from IMAX on our super bikes and reached home in half an hour’s time. All my team mates were surprised when they saw my flat. They liked and loved it very much. Everyone went around the house and had a look at my flat. Then we ordered some food from Hyderabad House and had a wonderful lunch together. One of my team mates prepared absolutely delicious tea, it was awesome. Then my team mates left to their homes. I had to drop one of my team mates at the IMAX as he left his bike at the IMAX parking.
 
Then I started back home. I almost reached home but just after taking a right run I found an old lady lying on the concrete road. She was old and was very weak. It was hot and I could see the mosquitoes feeding for blood on her mercilessly. I tried to talk to her but she was not able to speak. The first thought that came in to my mind was to get her some food and water. I quickly brought a food packet and a bottle of drinking water. I gave it to her and asked her to eat it. Then I quickly went to my flat and switched on the computer. I started searching for “Old Age Homes” and the “Charities”. I managed to find few addresses and phone numbers. I started calling them one after the other. I was little afraid to call the charities as it was almost 11 PM in the night. But I had to call them as the old woman was suffering like hell.
 
After talking to few charities I realized the fact that many of the charities are commercial. They don’t accept people who are abandoned and diseased. These charities have no funds and are fully occupied. They can join no more people. Every charity has some or the other reason for not helping this old and sick woman. I was very frustrated as I was not able to do anything for the old lady. Then I tried for the last time and I called up a number. But I reached a charity for children. I talked to a person called Srivyal. He was a cool guy and told me that his charity is for the poor children. But he helped with a number. He asked me to call a well known Telugu newspaper Reporter, Mr. Srinivas. Srivyal told me that Mr. Srinivas could help me as he wrote few articles about the abandoned & old people in the past.
 
When I called up the Reporter Mr. Srinivas he talked to me with patience and he listened to me very carefully. Srinivas told me that he wrote an article few days back about a woman who was abandoned. I told Srinivas about my experiences with the charities whom I called up. Srinivas told me that it happens and most of the charities are not in a position to help anymore. Then I asked Srinivas if there is any charity that will take some money and take care of this sick woman. Srinivas told me that it’s too late in the night and no one would come now. Srinivas gave me Naredmet police station number and asked me to inform them about the old lady. Then I called up Naredmet police station and the constable told me that they won’t take up such issues but at the same time he helped with a number. I called up the number and the guy asked me to call 108. Then I called up 108 and to my surprise they were ready to help the woman. The guy who talked to me added me in to a conference call where I could talk to the 108 ambulance driver. I gave my address and my mobile number. The ambulance driver told me that he will be at my address in 10 minutes. By the time I went down and started my bike I could see the ambulance. I was surprised and thanked God. I drive to the ambulance and asked them to follow me. When I reached the spot where I saw the woman I was surprised & confused as I could not find the woman. I asked the ambulance to stay for a while and I started searching near by places. I searched for about 15 minutes but I could not find the woman. I asked one of the families who were still awake about the lady and they told me that they too saw the woman a while ago and how she is not there. I was disappointed and returned back to ambulance. The 108 guys asked me to call them back if I could manage to find the woman and they left to their base point. I thanked them for their help and I took their mobile number. I ones again started searching for the lady but I could not find her. I went home with disappointment and hoped that someone might have sheltered her. Then I called up the Reporter Srinivas and explained him all that happened. Srinivas asked me not to worry as I did my part. He told me that she will be definitely safe some where.
 
But I could not convince myself and I started praying for the woman. And I didn’t notice when I fell asleep. Even today my eyes go around my place with a belief that I will find her one day.
 
Today I still regret that I couldn’t do much for the woman. There are many old people who are abandoned by everyone in the society. I know, we cannot do much for them but at least we can pray to God to help them. We are humans and almost all of us live for ourselves. We are so busy with our work and family that we never find time for some one else. Even I fall in to the same category. But let me tell you there are very few people who make it.
 
I am very happy that I met this person, Srivyal. Srivyal is a Hyderabadi and he did his Maters in Economics in University of Ohio. He always wanted to do something for the poor children who could not afford to study. He came back to Hyderabad and he started a foundation called Spoorthi Foundation, through which he helps the poor children to pursue their education. Now he supports around 43 students in their studies. He has set up a house for the all the kids where they can stay, have food, study and enjoy. Srivyal with the help of his few good friends and few good people is able to run the foundation. I request you to please visit the website http://www.sphoorti.org/where you can know more about what he does. I have decided that I will help him in whatever way I can. Srivyal is a wonderful person and I will try my best to do at least 10% of what he is doing.
 
I am planning to visit his place to know more about what he is doing. Will post a write up when I visit Sphoorti.