THE TOP TOWN BOY…

Please read this... it’s a true story, it happened in Lae-top town.

PROLOGUE

Some one very close to me once said… We are all leaders in work and family, make decisions based on what makes you happy, but always remember the consequence to people with you.

If a decision affects the ones around you in a negative way then you need to clearly adjust yourself and think about what needs to be done.

People that are directly involve in your life, especially your children need to be considered… parents and family including friends comes last.

 Desires and interests including personal gain and pressure from friends and family to make radical decisions will leave people directly around you to suffer.

BASED ON A TRUE STORY…

I was walking home, one evening after work, it was raining, while I covered in an umbrella and waited for my boss to buy flex from a tucker shop.

A small boy, not more than 10 years old walked up to me, he was very gentle but also understanding, he looked hesitant, but he was brave.

" Can you please give me one kina? I am hungry and I want to buy a biscuit, please just one kina only, nothing else," he said.

The boy wasn't looking for sympathy. He had already understood and accepted his plight. Because when I asked him about his mother...

 "She has gone to the village". He said this with a straight face... he wasn't lying to me.

Then I asked him where his father was...

"His married to a new woman and I can't live with him anymore, so I am out here."

My heart tore right up the center. Not because he wanted me to feel sorry for him... but in his eyes, he had already accepted that this is his life now.

I knew from that second that this boy, not more then ten years old had lived three times his life time.

He had gone through a life changing experience and it wasn't his fault but he accepted it.

I gave him my coke and my boss gave him ten kina... I didn't have cash in my wallet at that time. Other times I did but at that time I didn't.

After I walked away... his face was still glued in my mind and sometimes my face is where his face should be...

The next day I had 100 bucks for him in my wallet, I went out looking for him but he wasn't there.

I didn't take his picture.