The Coronavirus pandemic has forced the human species to be at their worst out of necessity. Lack of jobs, no food in the stomach and families waiting eagerly for one to bring home something to eat, can make people do things they had never imagined they would have to, not even in their wildest dreams.

However, every once in awhile, someone does something so inspirational or generous that the belief that there is still good in the world, gets restored. The painful incident of Maharashtra's Yavatmal district is an example of the same.

A man broke into a roadside eatery in Maharashtra's Yavatmal district to steal food as the coronavirus-induced lockdown had left him famished https://t.co/tz8U3LyUZ7

According to PTI, a man broke into an eating joint by the road in order to steal food on Wednesday night. The CCTV camera caught the person bursting through the door, entering the kitchen, eating zhunka bhakri and sev bhaji out of the utensils.

An official also confirms that the man even stole Rs 200 from the cash counter before leaving the Mor ''zhunka bhakar'' joint at Gandhi Chowk in Yavatmal.

The man did what he had to do in order to fill his stomach with at least something, but what the owner of the eatery did next was simply amazing.

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Rajesh Mor, the person who ran the stall, decided to not file a case of breaking and entering or even of theft against the man caught on camera because of two reasons. One, Rajesh could understand how hungry he would have been to do something like this and two, the amount he stole wasnât very big.

Nobody, not even the richest of the people are being spared of the terror that the COVID-19 disease has become, so where will those men go who have been struggling to make ends meet even before the lockdown began?

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As the number of positive cases and the death toll due to the infection continue to rise, other provisions, such as lack of jobs and poverty have also become as deadly as the virus itself. 

Under such circumstances, empathy, therefore, becomes one of the most important characteristics that we can have towards people around us. 

Take a moment of your day to see what is bothering the less fortunate nearby and think to yourself, if there is anything, even the smallest of things you can do to make their lives easier and then, do it.

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