Paulo Coelho, wishes Calcutta Times (Local face of The Times of India), Merry Christmas! with a story where two angels visits bankruptcy hit Brazil. The story proceeds in the way that the pair of angels unable to find shelter for night, spends their night in two distinct homes.
The first night at a persons basement, who have everything he need and did not allow them to spend the night in his Manson. The Brazil at Christmas time is too hot and they had to spend the night in the hot and humid basement.
The following night at a persons home, who have nothing almost, a very poor couple, offered them with food and best of comfort they can.
The significant thing noticed by the junior angel the senior angel mend a crack at the Manson but helped in no way the poor family. Rather, the poor family's only source of food and earning the cow was found dead the following morning.
On asking about the injustice by the junior angel, the senior angel replied he actually mended a crack which will lead the person to gold and traded the death of the poor man's child to the cow with angel of death.
Thank you Mr. Paulo Coelho, a good reply but you forgot the total scenario. Let me proceed the tale further to show the foolishness of the senior angel or in part of you (no disrespect, only for the particular story).
Two months after the Christmas Brazil was struck by an heavy earth quake. The two persons house mentioned above were mashed to dust. But, the selfish man discovers the glitter due to the quake aftereffect. And enjoys the Gold. The poor man, as their food and earning source was gone, and they were surviving on the little they could arrange, got his whole family malnourished. The child whose life was then traded by the senior angel could not survive the shock on his malnourished body and succumbed the calamity.
It was humanity to save a child's life but not if you can not provide him to live on.
It is good to hide gold from selfish but better is only if stolen, else he will find it some day.
I regret if i had offended you (Mr. Paulo Coelho) or Calcutta Times, but we are not GOD and Angels living on this planet. We are the common man. And a story which is not covering the common man's aspects then it is just following your fame.
You have to realize how common man is interpreting the story. You have to be in their shoe, else it will be like the Indian story of "Raja Harishchandra" after hearing which people never dares to tell a truth. What more the "Satyavadi Harishchandra" had now became a satire itself.
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