The sadness that seems to be invisible sometimes gets shown off when we have a bothersome look at its actual sufferers. This sadness has rendered a diversity of people lead into throrns.What we perceive in our day to day life is our self-centeredness, leaving silencers into more pain and discomfort. Some years back during my MBBS college days, I was at a bus -stop in Panjtirthi Kachi-Chawni Jammu waiting for my College Bus.On the road-side I could saw an old-aged woman who was in distress and signs of sadness were imminent on her face.I could saw her in this hanging face for a minutes period. A thought touches my soul that whether she is alright.I finally got close to her and could saw sweat was rushing down her entire face.I asked her Daadi Ji”Why you are so upset,your face is blushing with sweat.Take my hand-kerchief and clear your face.”She didn’t reply.I asked her again the same question.But again she reacted in the same way.Half a minute later,she started waving at me with their hands.I could not understood whether she craves for some help.She was waving her hands first at me and immediately to the opposite side of the road.I could thought whether she wants to cross the road.I also mimic my hand movements in the same manner as the way she was waving.I could got a smile on her face with nodding her head saying ‘Yess’.Finaly i realised that she was deaf and dumb and couldn’t speak.I pulled her up support her with ease and patience in crossing the road to the opposite side. After crossing, she was praising at me by waving her hands towards the sky and put her right hand on my head and was saying something that i couldn’t understand.Then i left and i got embbedded so deep in my thoughts that such sections of the society are also present during our self-centered era.My friend could told me that there are many such examples through out the entire Jammu city, who have been abandoned and disappointed by their families and are rendered in isolation.They leave their homes on early morning and live for whole day in thorny bushes returning back in evenings.They are in this hope that one day their silence will be eared attention by democratic governance and their life will rise again like anybody else’s.
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Performing an act of humanity is a soul key to patience,peace of mind,happiness and success.It is a soul key that will provide you a tool to remain engaged in doing good deeds all the time.When we access to those sections of the society who are living in slums,who don’t have a hand to hold a glass of water,who don’t have a leg to walk,who dont have speech to adress their sufferings,who don’t have a home to live,who don’t have even a rupee note to get themselves adequtely treated,who have been discouraged by their families,who are orphans discouraged,who are handicapped roll on the roadside,foot paths..I think this will prove instrumental in realising that unsocialistic luxiourouness,self-centeredness,greediness for money and so many bumps that have umbrellised the society,are not the way to gain sympathy,peace,prosperity and happiness instead these prejudices could be betterly controlled by “performing acts of humanity”
A REAL STORY & lessons learnt
Om Prakash, 70 years old, nowadays a cobbler by occupation lives in R. S. Pura Jammu. He is actually a native of POK. In 1947 on partition of Baharat into India and Pakistan , when Om Prakash was not yet even born, his family migrated to Jammu. In 1965, when Om Prakash was just 16 years old, he started working as a labourer and moved outside the state of Jammu and Kashmir. He had worked as a labourer in many states of India like Rajasthan, Maharastra, Gujarat, Punjab, Haryana and almost every state of northern India. He for some time worked as a truck – conductor in Maharastra. Since, he found that job not suitable for him as he always used to do work with dignity and “dignity of work”, as he said is the most important thing that keeps you honest and humble in your life, . In 2002, he came back to Jammu and started working as a Cobbler. Since then, from last 15 years, he is working as a Cobbler at a place in Panjtirthi Jammu, just opposite to the Jamia Masjid of Ustaad Mahalla. I most often used to visit this cobbler during my MBBS college days whenever I had to went city for some work. I could get my shoes-polished there and I have always seen him charging a fair amount. One day i extended some extra money to him, he refused to took. On other occasion, I had to paid him an amount that was more than he could charge,I told him to keep this extra money, he refused and told that he would polish shoes next time for that extra amount. I could see elite class persons are visiting him and getting their shoes-polished there. Anyways, the advices he put forth before me are always worth imbibing. The good thing is that we could learn and realize a lot of things whenever we intimate such kind-hearted persons in our society. I owe a lot of respect to this man, who being in this age, is working hard with dignity and devotion to earn their livelihood and feed their family. He is an inspiration that gives us courage to work with passion and energy in this young age. At last, I would quote some lines that give us realisation how important a cobbler is in our society, “Whenever we have to go for a party or function, we could check our shoes many a times whether there is any dust or mal-thing sticked. If we go, with our shoes in this mal – condition, we would fear that if anybody might tease us. That time, a cobbler is an artist that puts his whole soul in our shoes and mesh it with charm and light. Then we would feel confident and fearless enough to go to the party or function”
CONCLUSION
We have been created in this world as the beautiful creation by Creator i.e, humans. So our motive is to serve humanity through any means to gain sympathy and merciful bliss from Almighty Allah .We should always keep in mind three values of compassion.First, that we all are here in this world temporarily only for a short period of time. Second, in this short period of time, we should try to our maximum efforts to serve the humanity according to the graces we have received here. And third, we should respect each other as well as each other’s job, like a shoe polisher has its own significance. He puts his whole soul in our shoes and spark them bright & charm by his tireless work and this way we are feeling confident and fearless to go for parties or college,office or our work places.
(The author a doctor by profession at Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital Jammu and Educator at Unacademy, India’s largest online education platform writes on socio-economic issues. His views are personal)