Sunday, September 25, 2005

A rainy day....

It's a rainy day, wet and cold like any other rainy day. A huddled up form under a tinned roof shifts closer to the wall to avoid getting drenched. Hey! get up you lazybones! There is a heap of dishes in the backyard to be washed and you are day dreaming here! Reluctantly, the child gets up, he didnt want to wash dirty dishes when it was raining so hard and no roof to protect him in the backyard. He worked at the local tea kiosk, which was crowded on all days just like he had to work on all days.
He was an orphaned kid, and had to earn for his livelihood. He was content with the food his master was giving him. He didnt get money for the hardwork he did instead the kiosk owner was 'kind' enough to give him food twice a day and a small corner inside his shop to sleep. He had no-where to go and no one to talk to. So he accepted it has his fate.
Everything was fine till today morning. But today in him was seeded a hatred for society, a hatred for the life he was living, and a hatred for his mother who abandoned him near a garbage pile. The reason was what he saw in front of him that day. He rarely used to come to the front of the shop during working hours as he had lots of dishes to wash everyday. But today he wanted to shelter himself from the rain and was standing just outside the shop where customers used to sit under huge umbrellas and sip coffee. There in a distance he could see a family of three, a mother, a father and a son of his age. The parents were dotting on him fondly, the kid was in his school uniform and they were trying to make him eat his favourite candy as a bribe so that he would go to school. As most spoiled kids behave, he was also trying to throw a tantrum.
The orphaned kid looked a himself - in rags, no parents and definitely no school...
" Hey! get up you lazybones........"
There are many such kids who yearn for a decent living & if not kindness, atleast the right to live their life. So what can we do? Please help those kids....in some way or the other!

2 comments:

Radhika Bargavi said...

Really moving, but 100% true.. I'm sure we all *should* do our part. At least one per person, and this world would become a heaven.. We really *should*, and we will..

யாத்ரீகன் said...

very true sugee..

i had just posted my thoughts on this..

http://yaathirigan.blogspot.com/2005/11/blog-post.html

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செந்தில்/Senthil