More Lessons from Baba

More lessons from Baba. (please refer to earlier post on Lessons from Baba)

These are two things I noticed when I spoke to that lonely old man.. He seems to long for physical contact and for the ability to feel needed...

Physical contact - deeper into the conversation he kept asking to shake or hold the hands of my friend and I... Previously, I would declare this as an act of being overly friendly.. but there was something in me that really related to him.. He was just so lonely... I mean.. its ok to be a lonely 21 year old... at least you life is still at the stage where it give things to you (from indiana jones)... You have so much love to look forward to me the future.. so many kisses and hugs.. But what about this 60 plus plus year old man? He's got nothing to look forward to.. So he gets all the physical affection he needs from strangers... I hate to say that I pity him.. maybe I do.. but the truth is.. In this man.. I saw the needs and the areas of neglect of so many other people out there... whether we admit it or not.. most of us are just like him...


Ability to feel needed - almost immediately into the conversation... he started to try to read the palms of my friend and I... and he tried even to give us four numbers to make us rich.. This man is wise.. He is.. Life has taught him that people only want to take from you.... SO to make a friend.. you must first be of some service... and all he could provide was some basic palm reading.. So.. that's what he tried to do... but he didn't know was that.. what I was interested in... was basically to feed on his experience... I wanted to know myself better from conversing with him.. and I so truly wanted to do a kind act by offering a burger to a hungry man.. If he ate that burger in front of me.. it would be enough satisfaction for me... no palm reading or lucky four numbers required....

I must say.. that I DO FEEL GUILTY.. for reading Baba like a book... and potentially misintepreting his actions... I mean, I am sure he has the right to privacy and I am definitely not the best mind reader... its just I have learnt so much from him.. and I see so much of me in him... It's almost scary...