An old woman and a woman

In the evening today, one of my friends and I decided to go eat out. The restaurant was around 2 km from where I live in Bangalore. We were talking about things and walking and it was dark already. There was a road that we had to cross and immediately after that we reached the restaurant and found it closed. There were no lights nearby, very dark. We immediately started for home, not thinking of any other place to eat, had no other plans, when we heard some sound.



I felt like some little boy is cried hard and loud. Like he was hurt badly somehow. But just then we could see some shapes and it was clear that one very old weak woman was sitting down on road just in front of a door next to the restaurant, and one other woman was beating her. She was crying hard and blabbering something, it felt like she was begging for stop beating her, but the other woman continued and she also kept blabbering something that I couldn't understand.

We looked there, didn't want to ignore and just leave, still we left. I feel we could have stopped her and asked what the matter was, but endless contingent possibilities stopped me.

While crossing that road back, my friend said, "Sometimes I feel its all about destiny. Maybe everyone is getting what they have to."

And we continued walking.