In that busy street of the town there was a beggar that Marta had always ignored. She had a heart as hard as a rock, perhaps the abandonment of her father, when she was still very young, had made her feel great resentment and bitterness.
One day the beggar asked Marta for alms and she told him not to come near, that her poverty was not her problem. That phrase of the young woman had broken the heart of that beggar whose face reflected her condition with great sadness and guilt.
She continued on her way to her work and did not feel any respect, compassion, or remorse for that beggar who only asked her for a little help, trying to touch some kindness in her heart.
At the end of the afternoon he began his return home, he had had setbacks at work so he left later than usual. It was getting dark and he decided to find a shorter way home through a familiar but lonely alley. There, in the middle of that road, she found two subjects who try to abuse her.
She screamed and fought with all her might, however, she weakened and her screams only echoed in the solitude, entering a panic never experienced. Just when her forces were already defeated by the two subjects, she feels that one of them separates from her with great pain in her head, she had received a blunt blow that forced her to flee with her partner. she.
She, in the midst of tears and the panic that she was going through, had been shocked to realize that the person she had come to her aid was that beggar that she had always ignored and that that same day she had mistreated.
The beggar man had heard Marta's screams on the other side of the street where he was usually. Marta hugged him and thanked him for having come to her aid, asking for his forgiveness. She was crying inconsolably because she was overcome with grief for having mistreated him that day.
In gratitude, she asked him to accompany him to his house, gave him food and gave him clothes that his father had left. The beggar thanked her with tears in her eyes, feeling that Marta had opened her heart full of great kindness.
From that day on, Marta reflected and decided to help the beggar man to get off the streets by finding him a job in the company where he worked.
Since then, Marta and the beggar man found a path of friendship, respect and goodness, both learned through their actions that goodness transforms, heals the soul and changes perspectives and hopes in life forever.
