Everyone should have a chance to change

Vincent didn't like anyone or anything. He didn't have any issues like kindness and humanity. He didn't love people or the kinds of stuff they do. One day, he was walking home and a little boy drew his attention. He was selling flowers and asked Vincent if he would like to buy some flowers. He was happily offering as he knew no one could ignore those beautiful flowers.

But Vincent didn't have a beautiful heart to love flowers. He told the boy to leave him alone and added that he didn't need that pathetic bunch of weeds. The boy became a bit sad but didn't make any further sound. But then Vincent got very angry and take the flowers and threw them into the water. Then he walked away making the boy cry.

It was not that he didn't like anything. He only loved one thing, that was money. He ran a business and didn't leave any opportunity to make money. He was impressed with money and considered it to be the most beautiful thing. He was content because he had a lot of money. He only thought about his profit which was growing.

However, few would like to live a life like his. He had no family and no friends. He only had a brother. But Vincent was very cold to him. He thought that there is nothing called to love and his brother also only cared about his money. So, whenever his brother called him, he got angry and insulted him with rough words. But his brother didn't think so. He asked Vincent how he could say like that as they were brothers. He got even angrier and told him to stop talking nonsense. He added that he didn't trust anyone except himself.

And he wasn't friendly with his neighbors. One morning he was building a fence in his house. His neighbors came to see what was happening. But he laughed at them and asked them what they were staring at. He told them that he was building that fence to prevent them from watching him. He added that he would also get a guard dog, so forbade them to think of trespassing. In fact, no one really wanted to be friends with Vincent because his character was insufferable.

One day an old shabby man came to him and requested him to give him some change. He got irritated and asked why he was supposed to help him. Vincent told him that he was a lazy old man and he had spent his entire life idling. And in his view, that was the reason for his begging. The old man was hurt and told him not to make assumptions about things he knew nothing about. But he got angry and said that he could see right through him. He told him to take his stuff and forbade him to go near his store again. And this was his territory and chased him away.

Vincent hated beggars because they remained him of his childhood. He was not from a rich family. In fact, they lived in a slum. In his school, he used to wear shabby and torn clothes. But other children wore very expensive clothes. But the thing was not that. His classmates always taunted him. They said that Vincent was a hobo, he was a loser as he was a janitor's child. Then everyone laughed at that bad joke and it made Vincent change. Since childhood, he knew that only money would make him happy. He also promised that he would make his classmates regret their words.

Years went by, and now he had everything he wanted. But he didn't have kindness. The old man again came to him and he took his bag and threw it away. He ordered the old man to get out of his store.

However, God had other plans. One day, he was listening to the news. And they announced that a hurricane was about to make landfall. But Vincent did hardly care about it. He asked what he was supposed to do. He also asked if they had thought he would close his store because of that stupid hurricane. And he was determined that he was not doing so.

But when the hurricane made landfall, it was very devastating. Vincent saw everything from his tore and understood the gravity of what he underestimated. He then thought to wait it out in the storage room.

When the hurricane was over, he went outside and was very shocked!...

To be continued...