BY SELMA PINTO
As a kid, I would go visiting homes
with my parents. Those days most homes could avail household help (age no bar)
easily. Now I’m not talking about help that came and went, but those who lived
in. They were treated so different from their own, especially children. There were
no laws then to stop this ill-treatment. And if you look at it now, it is no
different. Education! What has it taught us? To pass exams and get jobs? If
only education taught us to respect each and every human being like we respect
ourselves, then our country would be a much better place to live in. With all
the castes, creeds, taboos, etc., how can we expect a change in our society?
We have help at home, but they are
treated no different from ourselves. We eat at the same table TOGETHER. We use
the same dishes. We feel one at home.
Love and correction, everything is
done as we do to one another in the family. People actually have the atrocity
to ask ‘You sit together?’ I really would love to strangle such people. Who do
they think they are? The same people, when in dire need of blood in a hospital,
when their life is at stake, don’t mind whose blood is being pumped into their
veins, right into their bodies! Why don’t they find blood that came from their
own kind?
It would be so nice if each home would
start with educating the children of their maids, drivers, etc. I know many who
actually are doing so, but we are a society still so far behind in helping
others. We are ready to throw so much money on a lavish dinner in a starry
restaurant, which in fact would pay a whole year’s education of some poor
child. Think about it people. Stretch out your hands.
Make this world a better place.
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