You feel desperate and depressed. You no longer even think about what you are doing, but now regularly beg in the streets. If the occasion presents itself, you steal so that you and your wife may eat. Your wife has started to beg in the streets also.
For a while you have lived in this desperate state and survived. Today, however, as you are stealing some rice at the market, you are observed by the shopkeeper. He shouts, “Thief! Thief!‿ at the top of his lungs, and police who are nearby begin running toward you.
In panic you turn to run – but then wonder if you should just give up.
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