Friday, March 5, 2010

I can’t ERADICATE poverty. I can only help REDUCE it.

Statistics can help analyze the reasons for being at BPL (Below Poverty Line). But can it really quantify the extent of misery caused by such a state. Its irretrievable. What I wish to do is look beyond the obsolete notion of being ridden by fate. We all speak of achievements, successful endeavors, trade establishments, which truly are for self-satisfaction if not anything else. However what really needs to be brood over is your contribution. Maybe not to the world by and large, but to a single individual. A stranger who has nothing to do with your whims or fancies. We educate ourselves because we ought to earn. We learn, train, develop skills just to be better, more significant and precious in our chosen careers. We laugh, cry, fume because we are humans or maybe not. But in the whole viciousness we disregard the empathy towards people who are challenged .By time, by fate, by circumstances. We owe them. And to single it out. You owe one. It’s not about transforming their lives from black to white, rather improving it to lesser shades of darkness. There is always something we are good at .As simple as making them smile by small acts of randomness. Happiness is not achieved by following golden rules, its but a state of mind. Your mind, which needs you to give it a reason to be extraordinarily usual.

Like somebody somewhere once said: Serving others isn't always easy. It's about being brave; you can't be afraid to be the lone nut in the crowd.

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