AN INSPIRING STORY

 

He hid for years what he worked so he wouldn't embarrass his daughters

A famous Bangladeshi photographer named GMB Akash told an emotional story about a man he met on one of his travels.

According to reports, his name is Idris, a man who despite his extreme poverty never gave up on the dreams of seeing his daughters with a university degree. Idris worked hard as a sewer cleaner to accomplish his job, though he did it in secret to avoid his family feeling embarrassed.

Idris told his story in a textual way:

I never told my daughters what my job was. I never wanted them to feel ashamed of me. When the youngest would ask me what I did, I used to hesitate to tell her that I was a worker.

Before I got home, I took a shower in public toilets, that way I didn't leave track of the work I was doing. I wanted my daughters to go to school, to be educated. I wanted them to stand in front of people with dignity, that no one would make them bow their heads like they did me. People always put me down.

I invested every penny earned into my daughters education. I never bought a new shirt, I used that money to buy them books. Respect was all I wanted to earn for myself. He was a cleaner.

The day before one of my daughters college admission date, I couldn't afford her tuition. I couldn't work that day. I sat beside the trash and tried to hide my tears. Didn't have the energy to work. All my classmates looked at me, but none of them came close to talk to me. I had failed, heartbroken and no idea how I'd tell my daughter she couldn't afford her college tuition.

I was born poor. Nothing good can happen to a poor person, I believed. After work, all the workers came up to me, sat aside and asked me if I considered them brothers.

Before I could answer, they placed their winnings for the day in my hand. When I tried to reject them, they all faced me and said, 'we will starve today if necessary, but your daughter has to go to college.' Didn't know what to reply I didn't take a bath that day. Made it home like a cleaner.

My daughter is about to graduate college. Three of them don't let me work anymore. My daughter got a part time job and the other three give advice. Regularly, my college daughter drives me to my workplace. Feed My Homies .

They laugh and ask him why he does it. She replied, 'You did not eat that day and so I could become what I am now; pray for me so that I can feed you every day.'

Now I don't feel like a poor man anymore. Who with daughters like this might be!.

Even the most masculine man is heartbroken by this touching story. Have you ever thought about all the things your parents have done for you that maybe you didn't realize?

Credits to the author

Fashion - "The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so."

Pearls and Lace

People hide their incompetence behind their authority.’

Jean was out walking with his grandfather in Paris.

At one point, they saw a shoemaker being insulted by a customer who claimed that there was something wrong with his shoes.

The shoemaker calmly listened to his complaints, apologised and promised to make good the mistake.

Jean and his grandfather stopped to have a coffee.

At the next table, the waiter asked a man if he would mind moving his chair slightly so that he could get by.

The man erupted in a torrent of abuse and refused to move.

‘Never forget what you have seen,’ said Jean’s grandfather.

‘The shoemaker accepted the customer’s complaint, while this man next to us did not want to move.

‘People who perform some useful task are not bothered if they hear some critics to their work, but people who do no useful work at all always think themselves very important and hide their incompetence behind their authority.’

 

Fashion Patterns

 

Grace

 

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