As I watched two cripples from the bus window

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TRUE STORY: 
I looked out of the bus window and saw a cripple bum sitting on the pavement. Initially I averted my eyes to ward off bad luck; but, then, I turned back and watched him - like a field observation - and would continue doing so in order to glimpse how these two or three minutes of his life played out. The man either had a missing leg or a badly broken one - it was hard to tell - and he was panhandling. He made crazy, irritating laughing noises each time someone walked by (not a good way to solicit charity). His dirty crutch lay across his dirty lap. In between passers-by he laughed at himself. Then another one-legged cripple came by. This one had a wheelchair. The man in the wheelchair suddenly stopped a couple of paces short of the object of my curiosity and bent down to the ground. He had spotted a coin. He kissed it to Heaven, put it in his pocket, and kept on rolling.

what you want may be within your reach;
but if you don't get up off your ass and look for it, someone else will get it.