SLAVES OF SOCIETY AND CIRCUMSTANCE

So, I found this piece I wrote back in 2018, and I believe it is super relevant to all of us today. Here it goes...

Imagine a seven-year-old boy, either your son, brother or a friend, cleaning utensils for a living. Imagine a fully grown woman depending on her child to pay for her food and clothing because she was never educated with the know-how to do it herself. Imagine an infant, infected with a curable disease made incurable, forced to live its remaining days starving and thirsty because its parents don't make enough money to feed to cure it. 

 

Over a million families in India don't have to imagine this- they survived this abhorrent nightmare, and now are passing on this miserable reality to their children. These families are stuck in a formidable cycle of being uneducated and then being forced to make their kids work for living from a young age, thus preventing them from getting an education.

 

We, as the privileged sections of society (which you are if you are reading this) who have been blessed to be born away from this daunting cycle, have a moral responsibility most of us neglect to help the underprivileged out of this ominous cycle and give them a chance to claim the throne of good fortune we were born on.