Reading my title people might think I'm mad..
think what ever you want to but before making regardless comments take the initiative of reading my blog. Today 29Th November 2008 i was on my way to work , i usually catch my train from mahalaxmi and as i was enjoying the sweet aroma of the wet mud i entered the station. I happen to forget my mp3 at home so i was busy observing things around me on the station, i saw a number of things like the clock, the indicator, the Que for tickets, people walking around, some alighting from the train and some boarding in the train. So i also wanted to catch my train and reach my office on time.. I was walking down the stairs i heard some one weeping loudly, the voice was so painful that it immediately caught my attention what i saw was..................
AN OLD LADY WITH RAGS OF HER BODY THE RAGS WERE SO THIN THAT EVERYTHING WAS EASILY VISIBLE, SHE WAS BALD, THIN, DARK AND VERY DIRTY. SHE WAS UNABLE TO WALK SO SHE WAS PLEADING EVERYONE PASSING BY TO HELP HER CLIMB THE STAIRS BUT EVERYONE SAW HER AND IGNORED HER SOME EVEN LAUGHED AT HER, THE OLD LADY WAS A BEGGAR SO NO ONE WAS READY TO HELP HER. WHEN I SAW HER EVEN I IGNORED HER BUT MY CONSCIENCE WAS PRICKING ME, SO I DECIDED TO HELP HER, I WANTED TO LIFT HER AND TAKE HER UPSTAIRS BUT I WAS UNABLE TO DO THAT.. SO I WENT UP AND REQUESTED TWO MEN TO HELP THE OLD WOMEN. THEY READILY AGREED AND CAME ALONG WITH ME BUT THE MOMENT THEY CAME TO KNOW THAT THEY HAD TO HELP THIS OLD LADY WHO WAS DIRTY AND FILTHY THEY JUST REFUSED AND WALKED AWAY I WAS STUNNED..........
Is this the way a mumbaikar should be treated??? why should she or he always suffer just because of being poor and down trodden. If instead of this old lady a young girl or women with decent clothes was asking for help people would have helped her despite of anyone going and requesting to them. But in the end i was unable to help that old lady and i had to board in the train which was standing in front of me. But i was shocked to see such spiritless and snobbish mumbaikars. And yes the old lady was a Marathi and the man i requested to help was also a Marathi but i was not Raj Thackeray that's why the man didn't helped the women!! but i still wait for people to change their mindset and approach towards life and humanity!!!
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3 comments:
good observation.. atleast some1 takes time out to rite stuff like dis... anyway.. we r a mixed society yar and u kno it.. agree we need to improve at many levels.. it will take time.
yeah i know but its high time!!!!
Agreed we should always help the needy, but what can WE alone do ?
Heck i ve been punched by hooligans in my face because i tried to save an old man for being beaten up and the public just stared stared stared !
Sometimes its worth it, sometimes its not, but the thought alone that u wanted to help itself talks a lot about u!
Help if u can, and dont feel bad if u cant !
Cheers !
PS: the post was brilliant, long time someone wrote on these lines..keep it going :)
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