Another Picture of Bloodshed
*This is an entry for March Blog of the Month Competition*
This is a short story with a big lesson. A 14 years old child was thinking about eating a burger. He had been collecting money, coin by coin, whenever his pocket allowed him to. He counted his riches, he had forty rupees. He was delighted, thinking that finally his wish was to be fulfilled. The very next moment, he saw his mother, anxious about buying milk to make tea for the guests who had come for his sister's rishta. He gave the money to his mother. He was sad but she, obviously, needed it more. That was real bloodshed.
Bloodshed is not only in war. Bloodshed is the tears in red, shed when a girl goes out of her house to earn money because of her father's illness and does not tell him about the verbal harassment she faces while trying to run her house.
The tears shed when a child asks his father to buy him a toy, but his father pacifies him by saying that the toy is out of order and he will buy him a better toy next time just because of his poverty.
It is a moment for the nation to bow its head with shame when a rich person throws fruit in the trash and another person picks it out to eat it. When a qualified man is rejected for a job because of his financial status. When a daughter cannot get married due to lack of "jahaiz".
We should think about that crisis that occurs in the life of people due to drug addiction. When a newborn is thrown into dustbin due to many reasons that you know better than me. So don't waste anything in your life, maybe that thing would be the most precious thing in someone's else life. Make sure you do not become the source of tears in someone's eye.
This is a short story with a big lesson. A 14 years old child was thinking about eating a burger. He had been collecting money, coin by coin, whenever his pocket allowed him to. He counted his riches, he had forty rupees. He was delighted, thinking that finally his wish was to be fulfilled. The very next moment, he saw his mother, anxious about buying milk to make tea for the guests who had come for his sister's rishta. He gave the money to his mother. He was sad but she, obviously, needed it more. That was real bloodshed.
Bloodshed is not only in war. Bloodshed is the tears in red, shed when a girl goes out of her house to earn money because of her father's illness and does not tell him about the verbal harassment she faces while trying to run her house.
The tears shed when a child asks his father to buy him a toy, but his father pacifies him by saying that the toy is out of order and he will buy him a better toy next time just because of his poverty.
It is a moment for the nation to bow its head with shame when a rich person throws fruit in the trash and another person picks it out to eat it. When a qualified man is rejected for a job because of his financial status. When a daughter cannot get married due to lack of "jahaiz".
We should think about that crisis that occurs in the life of people due to drug addiction. When a newborn is thrown into dustbin due to many reasons that you know better than me. So don't waste anything in your life, maybe that thing would be the most precious thing in someone's else life. Make sure you do not become the source of tears in someone's eye.
Sumahir Jabeen (Batch of 2020)
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