This summer is extremely unkind. My face could feel the extreme heat within a fraction of a second I lowered the glass of my A/C car to ask for an address from a passerby. I was literally cursing the heat, when I saw numerous women in their fifties and sixties sitting on the sides of the road selling cucumbers, tender coconuts, watermelons etc. I couldnt help but feel appalled at their plight sitting under hot sun, covering their head with a fold of their old cotton sarees and gesturing with their hands to each passing vehicles to buy their goods. It was afternoon 2.30 and one cannot miss seeing anxiety in their face to sell their entire goods within the evening. For them it is an everyday struggle to meet the ends of their livelihood.
All of us who are in a better position in the society can make a difference in their lives with a simple change in our attitude. We can and we need to support the people mentioned above who have opted not to beg but dared to live with dignity by trying to stand in their own legs. I am not asking to buy each and everything which is sold in the road side, but atleast we can buy cucumbers, tender coconuts, watermelons etc which are actually good for our health. It will cost only a fraction of the cost we spend for our movie tickets and pop-corns,but it could make all the difference in their life. By this we also contribute to the eradication of poverty in our country. They are after-all our mothers, sisters, brothers and fathers. Think, act & Change.
Thisisthe compassion which is lacking in our society. For some strange reasons most of us display self centeredness whenwe are in public. We don'tfollow queue, overtake others in traffic , show no concern for elderly, women, challenged people. Certainly a conscious mass movement is the need of the hour to make our society a better place to live. By the way, for the past two months iam buying a watermelon a day from a street hawker.
ReplyDeleteThisisthe compassion which is lacking in our society. For some strange reasons most of us display self centeredness whenwe are in public. We don'tfollow queue, overtake others in traffic , show no concern for elderly, women, challenged people. Certainly a conscious mass movement is the need of the hour to make our society a better place to live. By the way, for the past two months iam buying a watermelon a day from a street hawker.
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