Poverty
has many meanings on same path.
I
was in a town surrounded by few hundreds of villages. Early evening I took a trip
to my friend’s work place, as a doctor he is giving his
services to a well developed hospital in the town. His busy work schedule put me in the hospitals waiting lounge for more than
reasonable time. I was not bored, but surprised seeing sympathy between
strangers. Spoke to some, absorbed many. Hospital is next to a highway, and its
main entry to the town. Walked out from the lounge for fresh air, and moved
towards canteen.
A
couple got down from a bus on the highway walking towards hospital, man holding
a kid. I saw my friend in the lounge, immediately
I went and met him, was discussing. But, my eyes are on overall the place. Seen
the couple near reception, the reception supervisor came to my friend and told
about the couple. From distance, I can
see my friend treating the kid. Not took
much time to start our discussion.
Getting
dark, I took leave from my friend, walk backed towards highways. I got to see
the same couple with a kid sitting in the bus stop. Thought to go and
speak to them, no idea what to speak, but still I went near them and spoke.*
Dinner
is ready, not in a mood to eat. Even my bed is resisting in giving a good sleep
to me. All the things in the house look abnormal. Many questions arose in me. Went
for a walk, walked for couple of hours in the middle of the night, reached the
place where I met the couple. The entire conversation with the couple is
reeling in me. My tears wet the road.
Poverty
speaks in many ways, and punishes in various ways.
*The
couple got their kid to hospital in a serious condition. They are from a small
village, couple of hours from the town. I went to bus stop and met them and
asked what the reason for their visit to the hospital. The kid is 5yrs old and
attacked by poisonous fever. And they were too late to bring him for treatment.
The father disclosed the death of the kid, with ignoring attitude towards me, I
was sympathy on them and surprised with their behavior.
I absorbed
the Kid mother, was quite and holding her mouth tightly with a piece of fabric.
And the father was silent without showing any sad expression on his face. Still
I don’t want to give up, trying to make them speak.
Kid’s
father and mother controlling their emotions and tears by holding their son’s
dead body. Father explained; they have just enough money where they can reach to their village by bus. If the bus ticket collector know that we are carrying a dead body, he will
not allow us inside, is the reason we are stocking our emotions and tears. An eye opening experience, I really don’t know
how i should react.
Poverty
rules on your hunger & needs, also realized it rules on your emotions, indeed.
An old
say ‘richer get richer and poorer get poorer’, now ‘richer get richer and
poorer becoming invisible’.
I ask, Are rich pillars on poor fingers?