Today I'm worried. I'm worried because I have to give my entrances and then results.Then I have to make decisions regarding colleges and fields. Will I get into a good college? what will my friends think of my choice? or would I even make any new friends in the new college? How would the new people be? What would the world be like? I'm curious. I'm scared and I'm worried about tomorrow. Sounds normal right? Like every other teen's story? It does, doesn't it?!
But it isn't. It isn't every other teen's story. Its the story of those teens whom we come across everyday. Privileged, taking everything for granted, "cool", teens. Teens like you and me, reading this on the screens of your smartphones, sitting in a supercooled room, drinking cold and fulfilling beverages and yet finding themselves to be not fortunate enough. Calling themselves unfortunate because they do not have an Iphone 5S.
Unfortunate eh?
Makes you wonder about the mountain of things that a child labour or someone unprivileged would have to complain about. No smartphone, no cool Places, no soothing drinks and above all that a cruel boss that makes other's kids work so that he could give his own kids an iphone 5S. If these privileged teens are so grumpy then just think how grumpy the actually unprivileged would be! But do they complain? Have you ever heard a child labour complain about not having an ac or a smartphone? Have you? Just look at the kid in the picture! What do you think?
The most I think they ask for is "mujhe bhi padhna hai. Mujhe bhi school jana hai "(even I want to study, even I want to go to school)
how can they complain?
How can he who doesn't know what comes after 4 complain about not having an iphone that was released after iphone4? To him all the smartphones are "bade logo k paas hota hai". To him all the chocolate cakes are "a dream rarely savoured ". To him going to school in a used and torn uniform is bliss. To him that last little piece of pencil that we throw away because its too small is a gift. He doesn't have dreams like
Owning a buisness. For him coming out of his poverty and breaking free from his employer would be a great achievement in itself! Eating proper meals two times a day would be heaven! They do not blame their parents like we do. These kids, survival is their priority. Getting out of that poverty is their priority. Can you imagine? can you imagine having to fight for survival at that age? Can you imagine a child that small, being abused? Being robbed of your right and chance to dream and grow and develop? Being robbed of a shot at future that every child deserves?
We have doctors and Facebook accounts for dogs even. Then how did we forget these children?
We didn't forget because we had to but we forgot because we would rather be in our heavenly abodes with our phones and pets rather than be confronted by some ugly truth.
Isn't it?
Children whose minds are so open, so fresh, so curious, so innovative, are not allowed to use them for dreaming and imagining instead they are forced to worry about money, forced to deal with discrimination,
would you be ok if your child wasn't educated? If your child went through all this?
You wouldn't keep your child uneducated in the first place. Never.
we care so much about our own children then why do we not care about the ones toiling for food and a bed to sleep on?
THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT. The truth is nobody wants to take responsibility for them.
But, we have to, because,
We as a society are responsible for this.
We as a society are responsible for the child whose dream was crushed. The child looks up to its own society for inspiration, for guidance.
Now its time to act upon that responsibility, be that inspiration, be the guide.
its time for a change. Its your time to be the change.
So this election vote for the 126 lakh children who are toiling, vote for the 140 lakh children that can't go to school, vote for a change.
note:-
This post is a part of the #Vote4Children Blog-a-thon on Youth Ki Awaaz. Find out more at: http://www. youthkiawaaz.com/vote4children
But it isn't. It isn't every other teen's story. Its the story of those teens whom we come across everyday. Privileged, taking everything for granted, "cool", teens. Teens like you and me, reading this on the screens of your smartphones, sitting in a supercooled room, drinking cold and fulfilling beverages and yet finding themselves to be not fortunate enough. Calling themselves unfortunate because they do not have an Iphone 5S.
Unfortunate eh?
The most I think they ask for is "mujhe bhi padhna hai. Mujhe bhi school jana hai "(even I want to study, even I want to go to school)
how can they complain?
How can he who doesn't know what comes after 4 complain about not having an iphone that was released after iphone4? To him all the smartphones are "bade logo k paas hota hai". To him all the chocolate cakes are "a dream rarely savoured ". To him going to school in a used and torn uniform is bliss. To him that last little piece of pencil that we throw away because its too small is a gift. He doesn't have dreams like
Owning a buisness. For him coming out of his poverty and breaking free from his employer would be a great achievement in itself! Eating proper meals two times a day would be heaven! They do not blame their parents like we do. These kids, survival is their priority. Getting out of that poverty is their priority. Can you imagine? can you imagine having to fight for survival at that age? Can you imagine a child that small, being abused? Being robbed of your right and chance to dream and grow and develop? Being robbed of a shot at future that every child deserves?
We have doctors and Facebook accounts for dogs even. Then how did we forget these children?
We didn't forget because we had to but we forgot because we would rather be in our heavenly abodes with our phones and pets rather than be confronted by some ugly truth.
Isn't it?
Children whose minds are so open, so fresh, so curious, so innovative, are not allowed to use them for dreaming and imagining instead they are forced to worry about money, forced to deal with discrimination,
would you be ok if your child wasn't educated? If your child went through all this?
You wouldn't keep your child uneducated in the first place. Never.
we care so much about our own children then why do we not care about the ones toiling for food and a bed to sleep on?
THEY ARE NO DIFFERENT. The truth is nobody wants to take responsibility for them.
But, we have to, because,
We as a society are responsible for this.
We as a society are responsible for the child whose dream was crushed. The child looks up to its own society for inspiration, for guidance.
Now its time to act upon that responsibility, be that inspiration, be the guide.
its time for a change. Its your time to be the change.
So this election vote for the 126 lakh children who are toiling, vote for the 140 lakh children that can't go to school, vote for a change.
note:-
This post is a part of the #Vote4Children Blog-a-thon on Youth Ki Awaaz. Find out more at: http://www. youthkiawaaz.com/vote4children
Ketakee, I like how you bring out the reality of those children not as fortunate as so many other. But what I really liked about this post is HOW you use questions, at significant points in the piece, to involve your reader, make sure he/she is paying attention, to think with you the 'whys' and 'hows' and 'how comes'. Really well done I wish this post is read by many!
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for reading it and also for your lovely feedback! I'm glad you liked it!:)
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