HUMANS AND HUMANITY
Hey there, back with a brand new post today. Although
I am a day late in posting this, but what I am going to tell is still fresh in
my mind. Today’s post is not about fearing on what people will think, or whether
I think college friends are better than school friends or not, rather today I am
telling you about an incident which just brought out feelings I have had for a long time now.
What happened was, I was travelling on a bus
yesterday, when suddenly I saw a black-clothed man trying to get up on the bus.
He was just a travelling mendicant, more like a beggar, it seemed to me. I
really didn’t know what exactly happened, but the thing that I saw was that the
conductor just kicked the beggar on his chest and threw him out of the bus. The
helpless man was thrown harshly and I saw that he had just 2
ten-rupee notes which scattered on the ground and he was desperately trying to
pick them and get up at the same time. It pained me terribly and I sat thinking about all the heinousness we
have been seeing throughout the world. Though this incident could hardly be
termed as heinous, at the same time it
shows how lacking in compassion we have become. Wasn’t compassion supposed to
be a quality essential to human beings? We, as a species, are becoming baser
than animals. Sometimes, it seems, animals surpass us in this quality. I guess I would not have given this incident much
thought had the poor man retaliated to the injustice done to him. But there he
was, standing on the road, with hundreds of people witnessing this utterly
humiliating situation, and he could do nothing. That was the part where it hurt
me the most. HE COULD DO NOTHING TO HELP
HIMSELF.
I am strong believer of karma. I very truly believe that
what you do to others, comes back at you. But, just for a moment, if I discard
this belief, and look at this situation, I realise:- We call ourselves a
civilization. But are we civilized enough to be termed as such?????
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