Spark of hope…

I was roaming around yesterday…I thought of having some food…I was about to enter a hotel but something caught my attention…I saw a kid standing in front of the hotel begging for some food with his mom (I think that’s his mom…of at least for the time being…)

The entire appearance of that kid looks very dirty…according to some of my friends this is just a marketing strategy…I wonder why people think like that… is that because they want to use big terms even in day to day life?…I think now a days we got an analytical eyes than human eyes…I hate this…

I was watching him…when someone comes out of that hotel…his eyes go so bight and he will ask them for some food/money…as soon as they deny him then all the brightness will go…if somebody give something the he will smile…I felt his eyes is like a lamp which on and off with a switch…

Hardly I have noticed someone eyes with this much intensity of hope… (Forget about the day to day acting we does in the office…)

I felt that as a real spark of hope…

The first step..

I was speaking with one of my friend (at a tea shop) and he was shouting about the current Indian scenario. He said.. “look at our land. Poverty is still there. Lots of people don’t get proper education… (Mean time one kid came to us with two teas…)Child labor is everywhere..”

After half n hour of speech ( i was pretty bored with that..)We left the shop. That kid was looking us for some tips. But we didn’t paid a single penny..(that’s how we, we speak a lot .. but never act ..)Good… Isn’t it?

After this, while riding home i was thinking about him. He got a very good job (i don’t know, but people say that IT jobs are the best. I love to call them IT slaves…)with almost 70-80K per month. since he is one of my best friend i know about him. I never noticed him paying something towards charity or something of that sort. He still complains about this housing loans and cry for more salary..

i am left with some questions here..

By speaking publicly about helping others will stop the problem?

i can see people with 4-5k running a family in bangalor..so why we cry more ,when we get more ?

The problem is no one wants to come out of their comfort zones (this includes me as well..) But the same time wants to show that they care this world. I think the guilty feeling inside their minds makes them to speak about all these..

As some one wrote ones:

Death is a hope, the only hope

for the wretched and the poor

People that strive and strive in awe

But never get to tie their knot

Death reaches out and console

the poverty that surrounded them about

It’s the only thing that makes

a destined wretched life worth it

It’s the only thing on the other side of

the poverty line that blurres the line and cured it…..