IGNORANCE: Bliss for you or Agony for others?

We live in a world where we get to see a lot of nasty stuff around us, but just like any other person we keep ignoring them and justify our behavior by saying that this is not going to change so why bother about it. Can ignorance be a solution of any problem? Can we really escape from such things by simply letting them happen? Even if we escape, would we be able to see our faces in the mirror again and say "Dude I love you and I'm proud of you"? All these questions haunt me whenever I go on the road and see something terrible happening and leads me to an even bigger question, "WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE?” The answers always fill me up with some strength but this strength is always followed by a sense of fear of losing everything, the fear of doing something which is out of my boundaries. Aren't we all afraid of doing something big, but I never understood why. If we know that its right thing to do then why can't we make ourselves capable enough to do something amazing something that can make us real human beings.

 

I remember it was a chilly night in Delhi and I was returning to my home and it was around 8 PM. I always loved winter nights specially that fruity smell on the road and that atmosphere of Divinity. I got a call from one of my friend and she told me something I am still not able to forget. She has a habit of talking a lot, so much that sometimes to pass her time she talks to the strangers around her. She told me while she was on a metro station, she had a discussion with one of the lady on the metro stairs. Her saree was having patches to cover up the torn out parts and another women beside her was barely covering herself and her small kid with a saree. My friend gave her something to eat [Yes, good people do exist in this society] and started asking questions about her husband and the truth she came to know was a lot more depressing than a surprise. She was told by that lady that the woman with the kid belonged to her village and was married. She came here with her husband few years back and then he left her. She used to beg to help herself. My friend then asked what about the kid with her. The lady replied with a heavy voice, "We don't know whom they belong to, men come sometimes and they pick us from somewhere. We are so broken now that we no longer have strength to resist". As soon as my friend told me this I had tears in my eyes and I said please stop. Stop! Telling me this, I'll call you back in sometime. I reached home that day and searched for the NGO's that can take up such Women. I mailed 5 to 7 of those NGO's but didn't get any good response. I asked my friend whether she had seen that lady again. She said she couldn't find her again. I still wonder what had happened to her, where is she now?

This is not the only incident I came to know about. One of my senior told me something more the other day. She and her husband were on a red light, when a mini bus stopped beside them. A boy and a small girl were selling something on the street. Like any other seller the boy went to the minivan and one of the person in the minivan gave him some money but didn't buy anything. The boy called out to the girl and started saying Go Inside. She cried and fought "I don't want to go". The whole picture got clear to my senior and her husband and they stepped out of their cab to stop the mishappening. I am glad that at least some people among us got the courage to do what is right.

These are just two of many mishappenings that are daily caused on the streets of many cities, the difference is only that the crimes against the beggars and street sellers are never reported and we are so unaware and ignorant towards these that we hardly care about what we should do. We all are busy in making accusations that it’s the fault of the system, fault of the women or the men that we ignore the fact that a human being is suffering no matter who did what. We are busy in investing and making videos instead of being a human and helping the one in need. We are so obsessed with the term of JUSTICE that we forget that it is we ourselves who, by not doing anything, are indirectly responsible for everything bad that happens around us.

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[nauman]

What amazing concluding lines!!!

Everything that happens, even around us, is a result of things we have/have not done in the past.
or doing/not doing something in the present.

"I am responsible for eveything around me" - key to a society and individual's success.