Broken wings

“They began work at 5:30 and quit at 7 at night. Children six years old going home to lie on a straw pallet until time to resume work the next morning! I have seen the hair torn out of their heads by the machinery, their scalps torn off, and yet not a single tear was shed, while the poodle dogs were loved and caressed and carried to the seashore.”

Mother Jones

In the present morden society where everyone run towards their dreams and goals there are people who wish to have ‘Going to school‘ as their unattainable dream!

When we make plans with our friends to dine in a fancy restaurants and complain about how less our pocket Money are! There are children who less then 10 years old yearning money by working more than their Age!

Get admitted in one of the top Schools/University and complaining ‘there is lot to study I want to party & chill’. There are people who dropped out of there schools/University and dreaming your normal life!

In their very own room laying on the fluffiest bed having a great wifi with latest gadgets and your own private space. Where some people are dead frozen while sleeping on streets!

While our Pantries are filled with things need for atleast a month. There are some people dieing of starvation!

I am not saying all the west things to make you all feel bad. I just want you all to feel thankful for the life which we are living is the biggest dream for millions of people out there.

It was a beautiful evening of my senior secondary year. I was returning home from school with my friends on our school bus. It’s the busiest hour in the city so the small travel from school to home took 40 mins. Me and my friends usually used to take a short naps during the travel. But that day was our last day of our exams so we decided let’s have fun!

Our bus stopped on the busiest junction. I turned my head to enjoy the weather outside. My eyes fall on a young girl around 5 years old with red pakoda skirt carring flowers and small accessories from one vehicle. She is trying to sell them before the signal turn from red to green. It’s not the first time I have seen such scene but what made me realise there is something wrong is beside the girl on the platform I saw a beautiful little girl around the girls age. She is carring a school bag on her back and holding her hands with her elder brother.

My bus started moving but I can’t forget the scene I just saw. Somehow I felt guilty in my heart eventhough I am totally unrelated to her situation.

I tried to distract myself by talking to my friends but my eyes keep looking through the window. The next scene hit me even hard there are two children doing their homework on their platform home which is less than 5 feet. There is no lamp in their house they are using the street lamps!

I been traveling this path since I started my high school but I never noticed this! This is what my first taught but I am wrong. When I refreshed my memory I have seen thi place on my first day to school too! And during that time as soon as I saw this slum area I turned my head to look in the opposite area. When this memory comes back I am really ashamed of myself.

I asked my friends to look outside the window of our bus they all looked out they give me a glare like what’s wrong everything seems normal. I started to point out the people who I saw. When they all saw the same thing I saw with my exaggerated explanation. I noticed a rare seen emotion on my friends faces that’s empathy!

In our next school activity we informed it to our class coordinator can we do anything regarding this. Our school suggested that we can do a charity fair!

I know it’s a small pin in a huge ocean but we did some to make their lives better. Even it’s a little thing after seeing the smiles on the children faces we all felt like we had done a big thing. I don’t know how to say but trust me that feeling felt so great.

When we born in this world we can’t decide whom our parents are or how our lifestyle will be. So begin born poor/disabled is not their fault.

But why should this society wants to broke their dreams and shatter their hopes?

People will answer simply that they are not responsible for this people. But I want to ask what makes us different from other living this is Humanity if this humanity is gone are we still humans?

“If we can’t begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.”

Alexis Herman