" Fareed, I thought that I was in trouble; the whole world is in trouble! When I climbed the hill and looked around, I saw this fire in each and every home."
Hazrat Bābā Farīduddīn Mas'ūd Ganjshakar (Sufi saint)
In Dubai there are no hills, but plenty of tall buildings. Today I came across a South Asian migrant worker who was in the local grocery store and thinking twice about spending the meagrely sum of 50 pence (3 AED). In the end he walked out empty handed, I bought the item in question and gave it to him. I then discovered that he was the sole bread earner and was supporting his family in Bangladesh. He had just learnt that his father was critically ill. Suddenly my crap day did not seem so crap.
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