Life has moved up quite fast and seldom we give time
to ourselves, forget about others. In the era, where our whole life in
entangled in chasing something or the other, all the time I think we are losing
the grip. And there was this fine Saturday evening; as usual I went out for a
walk just after it got dark. On my way back I had to buy some stuffs but I was
low on cash so I went to an ATM. In the meanwhile when I was busy withdrawing
cash from my account in the parallel universe something was happening.
A physical handicapped guy fell down from his bike
(those ones which are especially designed for those people) while trying to hop
on.
As I came out of the ATM at a distance I saw a crowd
gathering up. I made my way through the crowd to get a glimpse of what was
happening there and what I saw left me dumbstruck. An old man was trying to
lift that handicapped guy while everyone was staring at them blankly. No one
offered their help and I couldn’t resist I ran towards the old man and tried to
help. But our attempts kept on failing because the guy had a huge physique. My eyes
looked everywhere in search of help but what I got back was naked eyes staring
blankly at us. That gave me shiver down my spine, I looked at the old man he
looked tired. I gathered up the courage from every parts of my body, held the
guy by his arms and in one stroke I helped him to get back on his bike.
Once he settled down on his bike, he held my hand and
started crying and he cried his heart out. He cried not because he was
handicapped, not because god made him that way but he cried because he lost
faith in people and humanity. When he was lying down in the middle of the road
no one had the courtesy to offer him their help apart from the old man and me
and the fact that people made him realize today that he is just a burden on
this earth pierced his heart and shattered his will to fight for life. He cursed
himself and said, “I don’t want to live here anymore!”
I patted on his back to make him feel better. As the
scene was over the crowd started moving. I wanted to scream, I wanted to yell
at them but I looked into their eyes and smirked at them making them realize that
though you can walk you are normal but you are good for nothing. And it embarrassed
them so much that no one was able to look up directly into my eyes. This is our
world where we don’t respect humanity and we aspire to reach the heights.
As I walked back to my house I felt really bad, if
this is the beauty of our world which people talk about then I don’t want this,
if this is the way people has become then I would love to stay isolate in the
vicinity of my own solitude. This is what this world has become – way too
materialistic. And with time, we are losing humanity from ourselves.
