Begging as a Profession:

Yesterday I was reading an article; the article was all about making begging as a profession.
The article was published in one of India’s reputed newspaper and cited the example of a beggar who was richer than most of professional employed people.
After reading this article I was thinking whether begging can really be taken as a profession.
And within a few seconds I got my answer. “NO”.Begging can never be taken as a profession. Reason, it will be a sheer waste of one’s talent as well as life to choose this profession. Even if the beggar in the article owned some flats in posh area of Mumbai still he and his family were staying in a “Juggi” (slum area), they had rented their house and were getting money from there, no doubt they had always 5 figure amount deposited in bank account but all this wealth was of no use for this person as well as his family, because he and his family cannot wear good and costly dresses, forget costly dresses , even though they can afford for dresses they can not even wear clean dresses. Their children cannot go to good schools even if this person can pay the tuition fees.Although the people who beg, earn a lot but they can never use that money for any thing good, because once they start using the money for their own betterment people will stop giving them penny and if they decide to start a business out of that they are no more beggars.After so much of analysis I concluded that a profession is something which ensures the growth of individual’s wealth, knowledge and social status. Any profession which fails to fulfill any one of the above criterions that is not a profession but an illusion. That is the reason there are no professional institute to train individuals for theft, crime, begging etc.So money may be an essential condition to decide a profession but it is not a sufficient condition.