Today after work, I went to help my friends in their initiative “Feed Your Neighbours,” the main motto of this group is to “Eradicate Bangalore’s hunger”; well I must say they were successful in feeding 100000+ people in just 9 days. I would say it is a boon for me to be a small part of their initiative. I made new friends and met friendly people, and like always I also learned that life isn’t easy for all. It gives a lot of pain to me when I hear about experiences from the once who went to distribute food. There are people out there Suffering from hunger, there are few who haven’t had meals for two days and are so happy when we hand over a packet of rice to them. In one instance when Mata – The one who took the initiative for this great deed, went to provide a meal for the old person, he returned a small token of thanks by buying her juice, there is no greater pleasure than experiencing such acts of Kindness. No wonder the saying goes ” The one who has less gives more.” Another incident I would like to share here is that, one of my friend who was distributing food found a person who was empty stomach for the past two days, when they tried to hand over more than 2 packets to him, he refused and told them to go to Railway Station so that others also can fill their stomach. The pleasure of helping the needy is more precious than the wealth you make – my personal experience. Please Support their initiative, for more info check out “Feed Your Neighbour – An aim to eradicate Bangalore’s hunger.”
There are few other places I visit, for instance; a govt school or any schools in villages and teach a bit of trick to solve a math problem or to spread more information about how they can achieve great things. Helping a child or helping someone who has reached out to you for help, it gives a satisfaction in life which no job can give. Yes, we have the internet, we have internet.org but then how the people who have no power connect to these will? How will people connect to the web when they are not capable of buying a computer?
It is not just about eradicating Hunger or poverty or educating, it is about sharing and caring I always observe people around us, and it makes me wonder how busy we are in our routine life. Sometimes it has come to my notice that when we come across any transgenders we look down at them pull up the windows and some are entirely against them and forget that they too have feelings and they too are just like us. I made few friends whom I met while they were begging in Signals, I would like to address them as “She” as they like it that way. It was a pain to know the process they undergo as transforming gender illegal and their carving to be a female if you notice they are cute too, but then again we just shut them out. I am not telling you to pay them money every time they stop you but don’t hurt them by making them feel not accepted; it is not their fault for what they are nor is it the fault of nature. Maybe I can’t solve their problems, I am at least not causing them more pain.
Sometimes old people carry heavy bags and struggle to cross the road, we might be in a rush to reach our destination but that 2 mins of help are not going to end the world for us. We are the examples for our next generation, I believe they learn to see around them; today I see that two people are ready to get married, but neither of them is willing to take care of their in-laws. They sacrificed their whole lives securing their children lives while their children left them on their own. If this is what our kids are seeing while they grow then please expecting them to take care of us while we are old will be wrong. These were just a few instances, we see so many incidents and experience even more vulnerable situations of life.
We never know what someone is going through, we never know who is on the verge of killing themselves or who is going through what, a smile to a stranger might sometimes make him feel secure again, at times help someone get out of loneliness and also can be a motivation to some one. The smile doesn’t cost anything this, sharing it doesn’t cause a decease either, while it only spreads love and cures the pain. Try to make someone smile, try to smile at a stranger; you will see the difference. Be the change you want to see, eradicate hatred, love and be loved.
C. A. Stubborn Pen 