THE CURSE OF FATE: POVERTY

 IT WAS BRIGHT MORNING AND I WOKE UP AS FRESH AS A FRUIT FROM AN ORCHARD AS I HAD A WONDERFUL SLEEP THAT NIGHT BEING BLESSED BY THE ETERNITY OF GOD AS I ENCHANTED TO HIM TO GET ME A GOOD SLEEP AS IT WAS TOO COSTLY. IT WAS AROUND 10. AM UNTIL MY HOUSEKEEPER ARRIVES. 1 HOUR PASSED BUT SHE HAD NO TRACES. SHE DIDN'T COME THAT DAY AND I HAD A BUSY SHEDULE HELPING MY MOMMY WITH THE HOUSE WORKS. SUN SET, MOON ROSE, MOON SET, SUN ROSE BUT SHE EVEN HAD NO CALLS FOR ANYTHING. I AND MY MUM SAT LIKE THIRSTY HELPLESS BANJARAS IN A DESERT. SUDDENLY THE THIRD DAY SHE CAME UP AS SHE WAS WAKING UP AFTER A YEAR OF COMA AND REQUESTED FOR A HELP OF 50,000 AND WE WERE LIKE 440 VOLTS OF CURRENT RAN PER SECOND IN OUR NERVES BUT WHEN SHE DID TELL THE REASON WE WENT COLD AND OUR EYES FELT NUM ON HEARING SO. SHE HAD THREE LITTLE CHILDREN WHO WERE EXCELLING IN STUDIES AND EAGERLY WANTED TO GO TO SCHOOL BUT SHE COULD NOT AFFORD THE FEES AND WANTED A LOAN OF 50,000 FOR THEIR BRIGHT FUTURE.

SHE WAS A TALL LADY WITH GREAT STAMINA AND ALSO HAD A MANNER WHICH WAS UNLIKE THEIR COMMON BEHAVIOUR. SHE WAS ALSO FROM A GOOD FAMILY BUT SINCE SHE LOST ALL HER FAMILY MEMBERS AND HER MOTHER HD PASSED AWAY SAVING HER IN A FLOOD, SHE HAD SHIFT TO OUR TOWN AND HAD TO WORK IN HOMES TO EARN HER DAILY INCOME AND KEEP HER CHILDREN EDUCATED.

AFTER SHE ASKED FOR HELP, WE TOLD HER TO COME THAT EVENING AT OUR HOUSE WITH HER CHILDREN AND SHE AGREED WITH A HOPE OF GETTING GOOD HELP FROM OUR FAMILY. THAT AFTERNOON MY FATHER CAME FROM WORK AND WE ILLUSTRATED THE PROBLEM IN FRONT OF HIM. HE WAS SHOCKED AS WE WERE WHEN HE FIRST HEARD IT. WE, WITH A DEEPLY GRAVE EXPRESSION AT OUR FACE SAT ON OUR COUCH AND AFTER A LONG CONVERSATION DECIDED TO HELP HER WITH MONEY UNTIL HER CHLDREN CAME TO THE FOURTH CLASS AND COULD GET FREE EDUCATION ON THE BASIS OF EXCELLING STUDIES.

THAT EVENING SHE ARRIVED WITH HER CHILDREN AT OUR HOME WITH A CRYING EXPRESSION OF CONCERN. HER CHILDREN WERE VERY SMALL IN UKG BUT KNEW EVERYTHING THAT A CLASS ONE BOY KNEW. THEY HAD SHORT HAIR AND THEY WERE THIN, ASKING THEIR MOTHER TO GIVE THEM FOOD SINCE THEY WERE HUNGRY FROM THE WHOLE MORNING. I FELT PITY FOR THE YOUNG UNLUCKY CHILDREN BALANCED AT DEBT BY THE FATE. THEY WERE YOUNG PUPILS WHO WERE STANDING AT THE EDGE OF A HIGH CLIFF WITH THEIR SAFETY ROPES IN OUR HANDS AND WE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN MURDERERS. I CALLED THEM TO GET THEM SOME FOOD TO EAT AND AS THEY OPENED THEIR MOUTH TO AGREE I WAS TAKEN UP BY THIER VOICE WHICH WAS SWEETER THAN HONEY OR JAGGERY. OHH!!! I CURSED FATE AND DESTINY TO HAVE BALANCED THEIR WRONG DOINGS IN THIS BIRTH WHEN THEY WERE CAPABLE OF ROWING THEIR BOATS THROUGH ALL THE OBSTACLES, THEY FACED IN THEIR WAY TO THE UNEVITABLE RECORD-BREAKING TRIUMPH OVER LIFE.

" IF YOU FALL BEHIND, RUN FASTER. NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER SURRENDER, AND RISE UP AGAINST ALL THE ODDS." I GAVE HOPE TO THOSE CHILDREN AND PROMISED TO HELP THEM EVERY WAY I CAN. SMILE ROSE ON THEIR FACES AND THEY THANKED ME.

SEEING THEIR FACES GLOWING AND TWINKILING WITH SMILE I ACHIEVED THE GREATEST HAPPINESS THAT DAY GIVING ME THE HOPE AND GOAL OF MY LIFE. THEY HAPPILY DEPARTED TO HOME AFTER GETTING A SUM OF 50,000 RUPEES. IT WAS LIKE A LIFE-RESCUING HELICOPTER WHICH ARRIVED TO PICK THEM UP FROM A MONSTROUS FLOOD READY TO DEVOUR THEIR LIFE. I DECIDED TO BRING HOPE AND HAPPINESS TO ALL THESE FACES LOST IN THE ETERNITY OF DARKNESS AND GLOW THEM WITH SMILES AS A LIT DIYA SQUANDERS THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT ON DIWALI.

EVERY YEAR THOUSAND AND LAKHS OF PEOPLE DIE OF POVERTY AND MILLIONS CANNOT AFFORD GOOD EDUCATION IN SPITE OF HAVING THE POTENTIAL OF CREATIVITY AT THEIR PEAK. WE GIVE FOOD TO A DOG ON STRRET AND EVEN CARRY IT FOR ANIMALS IN ZOO WHO ARE STOMACH-FULL EACH DAY. CAN'T WE REACH OUT OUR HANDS TO THESE KINDS OF CHILDREN STRUGGLING BECAUSE OF POVERTY AND NOT GETTING GOOD EDUCATION TO BRING UP A GOOD CHANGE IN OUR WORLD. LET US SQUEEZE OUE HEARTS TO ATTAIN THE SLIGHTEST DROPS OF HOPE AND HELPFUL NATURE FOR THESE HELPLESS CHILDREN AND QUENCH THEIR THIRST OF ACHIEVING GOOD EDUCATION.