Wednesday, August 28, 2013

"The man with the coin"

So while I was on my holidays in Greece, I came around many poor people on the streets of Athens. They were walking on the most tourist occupied streets, sitting in the metro stations or sleeping on the benches in parks. Some were young, some were very old. Some were disabled while others just struggled with the economic life in Athens. Every time I passed a person that was asking for money, I was honestly heart broken while others were just used to it.
One day I was walking to the Sindagma Square with my parents and passed this poor man sleeping on the sidewalk. You could see he was wrecked. After a long day of walking around the city in such a high temperature he must have been exhausted. Practically everyone ignored the poor man until one person finally came closer and placed a coin on the man's hand. The person left soon afterwards while the man was still sleeping. He must have been very suprised when he finally woke up.





Picture taken/edited by me.

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