He stands there

People are getting ready for the midnight mass on the eve of Christmas and he stands there on the streets of Leuven - a historical town destroyed twice by German troops during both World Wars. I happened to visit this place yesterday and saw him too. He is not alone, a bicycle and a musical instrument is there, which he plays. This instrument looks like a saxophone but sounds like a flute. He plays it wonderfully, eyes closed and no care whether people drop some coins. This was perhaps the best site I saw there. Much appealing to me than the art exhibition of Russian avant-garde movement, which I visited in Brussels only a few hours before this memorable site of Leuven.

I just wonder why this extra-ordinary person's financial condition is not even ordinary? I am happy that he still stands there - like his town which still stands even after being destroyed twice by Germans.