19 August, 2014

Agay (old man) who hands us chocolate every morning

Barely a mile from my office, around the basement of Changkha Lhakhang(temple) lays apartment where I stay. The place is fairly quiet unlike near Flyover Bridge where I used to stay before which was full of commotion; vehicular honks could impose dreams to awake at the pitch night when many are enjoying a sound sleep. As young as four in the morning people walk off from their cozy bed to make as many circumambulations of the temple doing rosary concurrently. Old and young, from all walks of lives visit the temple for a lot of religious reasons; to pray for a newborn’s well-being, receive blessings for long journey and important undertakings, and many reasons within. The places nearby is a good combination of all. But rental is also quite high. It takes half of my salary. For me I have no choice as my Office is caged by the basement of Sangaygang (roughly translates to Buddha hill). The diameter of my travel would pinch me in monetary terms to look for reasonable apartment in places like Olakha, Hejo, Taba and Babesa. So, I have to put up here, which is walking distance to Office.

Quarter to nine in the morning, as I ferry to my office with my office mate, a few meters away on the way, a man at his eighties trudges every day from his home to do rosary at the temple. His upper part of body bends to form distorted 90 degree angle and walks with a stick. Walking down to the temple and doing rosary is his daily work. This is what many old people do. As they count down their days, they engage more into religion and confine their lives around the thread of prayer beads.

Every morning I and my friend meet him on the way, he pockets his right hand holding his walking stick with left, and he offers us a chocolate each. “Thanks Agay” we say.  Then he walks. He does it every day. On the first encounter, we just thought he might have seen us like school going children, because usually the old people use to gift kids with chocolate to make them happy. He might have seen us like school going children as we have a bag each on our back and a lunch bag each on our hand.
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We’re blessed to be greeted with sweet chocolates every day from the man of his age. Man who would outrun longevity of today’s generations. He might have many to take of the world with his lifespan near the heel of century. We have never asked any questions to him for he might have lot to do at the temple and he would take longer to reach there at his tortoise pace.
We are fortunate to savor chocolate from Agay; we believe that if we get something to eat from old people, we would be blessed with longevity. We feel immensely blessed on that ground thinking that we would have extended our lives to his age. Everyone likes to live longer if it is possible.

On the sad note, we still don’t know who he is. All about him remain questions in our mind. We love calling him Agay. Our talk with him starts and ends with ‘thanks Agay’ upon handing us chocolate each.

He is definitely a kind man. He flashes a smile every day when he sees us. This brightens our day at office. This prelude of our day with this wonderful Agay handing us chocolate is really worth engraving in our hearts. We shall remain indebted for his chocolate and kind heart that he carries.

May this dainty sweet Agay live longer with his kindness to spark a light in many lives of school going children who meets along the way and receives chocolate.

We know very little of him but know much of his kindness at heart. Thanks Agay.


22 comments:

  1. Sangay Sir as we know kindness is so powerful that a blind can see it and deaf can hear it. And there is no one in this world who does not appreciate kindness. Therefore let me also join you in saluting the Agay, indeed he is the creator of happiness.

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  2. Its for sure that great agay might born into a beautiful human next life tooo...nice post sirgeeee.

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  3. You aptly described it right of kindness Norbu sir. Sancha sir, our prayers would definitely be answered for man of his kindness.

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  4. He sounds like an amazingly kind soul indeed. Must be a blessing to cross paths with him every day.

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  5. You are right Optimistic Existentialist. That may be implied. Thanks for your visit.

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  6. He is truly a special being.
    Wonderful to know of you so thanks for sharing
    Smiles ...

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  7. He is special in lot of ways. Thank you Margie for dropping by. Keep visiting

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  8. What a beautiful start into every day! We can learn so much from our elderly - one of those things is compassion. Maybe you get a chance one day to find out more about him.
    Thank you so much for your kind comment on my blog. I'm happy to get to know you here in blogland.

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  9. Definitely that way is a good prelude of my day. I'm happy too to know further as we go on blogging in the wonderful Blogland. Thanks.

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  10. He sounds like a very kind person!

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  11. I like how he gives you chocolate and engraves kindness in your heart. Beautiful post, thanks for sharing the lovely beginning to your day.

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  12. What a lovely post! He sounds like a very kind soul, what a blessing!

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  13. Sherry, Calmcoach and Linda, thanks for your comments and dropping by. Keep visiting.

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  14. that is such a nice way to start your day, I wonder if you could learn more about him

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  15. You should bring him a gift. It would probably make him SO happy! I used to walk on this trail every day after work and there was an old man who would hang out, feeding the squirrels. I actually envied him that he didn't have the stresses of work that the rest of us have!

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  16. Kathyinozarks, sure I would one day learn about him. Stephanie Faris, I am thinking over it. Thanks for the visit.

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  17. Kathyinozarks, sure I would one day learn about him. Stephanie Faris, I am thinking over it. Thanks for the visit.

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  18. Reading your descriptions about him, he seems to be an old man who will give more than just sweets if we stay together with him. Nice. BTW bro. it would be great job from you if you can take picture of him and share as post thumbnail here.

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  19. Thanks bro. On a personal ground, i couldn't take a picture of him to have his picture as post thumbnail. But sure, next time I would update it.

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  20. He does this kindness for you (and probably for others) without expecting anything in return, but it would be wonderful if you and your friend brought HIM a little something to express your appreciation and acknowledgement of him. He may be lonely, and in need of a friend.

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  21. Susan, thanks for your suggestion. That I am thinking to do one day.

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