Life on Streets
The world we ignore! Yes, there is a world, so
deeply sucked into the Insanity is building in it and craziness is making a
deep impact in its residents. It is not somewhere we can’t look upon! This
lunatic world is right around us, or may be sometimes we too are habitants of
this world! We too have our own lives on streets, but these people have
something more to their lives. May be it positive or negative, we still have a
choice to bring out the best in them!
As night folds her black wings over
the world, the privileged retire to a peaceful and cozy slumber, while the
night ghosts plunder those on the streets. They take over the streets as
silently as a bat and spread their roots deep into the darkness of the streets.
These people are often considered to be trespassers, criminals, thieves and
anti-social elements. But in reality they are victims of brutality, slavery,
helplessness and fate. They are victims not criminals. These children leading a
life on streets suffer exploitation at an early age which makes them tough and
resistant but they lose their innocence and indulge in violent activities. They
remind me of the flowers, for they give fragrance right from their birth.
Difference is that they have the fragrance of struggle instead of pleasant one.
These uneducated, illiterate and barely informed children sprout like wild
weeds of the society. Most of us are unaware of the dark lives of these
homeless people and what made them to choose such miserable lives .Try to ask yourselves these
questions :Do we ever raise our voice against the exploitation of small
children? Do we ever think of the plight of the people we so often considers as
nuisance for us? Do we ever try to know what distress compelled them to resort
such lives? The answer is an inevitable “NO”. This is because our
comfortable life, which is the gift of our parents to us, has lured us away
from what is “being human”. After all this do we have the right to call
ourselves civilized and educated???
Mother Teresa once said “Let us
not wait for leaders, but do person to person”. Being the youth of the
country it is our responsibility to solve this problem. They too, when educated
and properly guided will contribute to the growth of our own India. It is our
duty to stretch our helping hands and transform these weeds into healthy
plants. And this can be done by acknowledging and adopting the idea of “Each one teach one” because once they are
educated they themselves will be able to choose a suitable profession and pull
themselves out of utter penury. Let us not wait for governments to pass laws
and big NGOs to come to their help instead we should take the first step .Take
out some time from our so called very busy schedules .It is good to watch
“Satyamev Jayate” but not taking any message from it and practicing it in our
daily lives is nothing but waste of those 90 minutes. If each one of us does a
little, a lot goes done. Don’t wait for an independence day or Gandhi jayanti
to make a resolution to reach out and help and uplift the down trodden. Do it
today! Because it is independence the moment you break free the orthodox rules
to uplift the society. Let’s discharge our duty towards mankind and reduce the
sufferings of each people, be their hope and bring a little ray of hope in
their lives so that this dusk of misery and pain may usher in a morning full of
sunshine, happiness and hopes in the lives of those in despair.
Heal the
worl d to make
it a better place ,
For you
and me
And for
the entire human
race.
Prachi Purswani,
Electrical,
2nd year.
Electrical,
2nd year.
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