Invisible people- Homeless on the streets.

My article will be short, but important to those sensitive to the human condition. It is about our basic humanity and responsibility to respect our fellow humans. It is about the problem of the street people we see every day in any big city. How do we look at these nameless people? What do we do when they importune us for money? How much respect or conversation or eye contact do we have with them? What do we think about them?  
Every person has a story about how/why they came to be where they are. No one wants to be homeless, no one deserves to be in that situation. At the very least, as human beings, homeless individuals are deserving of our respect. It could be any one of us that finds themselves in their shoes one day.
When we see people who are homeless, we often make assumptions. Maybe we assume they’re addicts or mentally ill or belonging to begging mafia. And some of them are.But homeless people rarely get an opportunity to tell their life stories or explain how they ended up in the situations they’re in.
As a human being, we have a responsibility to treat every such person we encounter with dignity and respect. I feel what they truly desire, is respect. Yes, like all of us, they need food, warmth, safety and companionship, even love and compassion if it comes their way, but it is the respect of their fellow human that is most important and the easiest and minimum what we can give without hesitation.
I would like to share one  experience I have had once outside a doctor's clinic where I saw this guy siting on the stairs, rusty look, torn clothes, obviously seemed like a begger or a homeless,he was not asking for anything but only steering at the steps deep buried in his thoughts. He looked at me without any expression,without any demand but there was something that I felt right away and that thing was sadness, loneliness, lack of smile, lifeless life. I can go on and on but I like to give it one word it was DARK. So I decided to go and get some food for him and so I did, as I offered him food you know what he did? To anyone's surprise he said Beta 'son' you must be hungry yourself as I've been watching you standing here for quite long so you should eat first. Friends I have no words for such kindness. All I could do was to say no please you have it. They are not aliens or some dirty creatures,  they are all humans and they deserve love and respect. 
I have a dream of building a home for the homeless, I like to call it building hope for the homeless where these people will have a reason to smile. I hope that day comes soon.  
Ending my thoughts with a humble request to please treat each and everyone of them as fellow humans, give them some respect. There is nothing better than bringing smiles. As we all know the saying - Laughter is the best medicine. 

It's a girl... :-(

A serious issue which I want to share with my readers.
Female foeticide or infanticide, what is it? Another shameful curse to our society. Let me first explain what female foeticide means it is the selective abortion/elimination of the girl child in the womb itself, after the detection of the child’s gender through medical means and infanticide a childs murder after birth.
According to the statistics, nearly 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in the country over the past two decades. Of the 12 million girls born in India, one million do not see their first birthdays.
Girls are quickly disappearing. Anti-women traditions  have been carefully preserved over the ages. There are many communities, which regard sons as only offspring, and not daughters. Till 1980, infant girls used to be killed after they were born. Despite being banned, the incidence of feticide is on the rise.  Every year 5,00,000 baby girls are killed in India even before they step into this world. The practice is more prevalent among the weaker sections as their belief is that the education and marriage of a daughter is a financial burden on them.  Some believe that among rich and  educated class female infanticide and female feticide does not happen.But, i beg to differ, the study shows in India the ratio of girls to boys is the most skewed in South Delhi, a place where the rich and the educated live. It is here that the maximum number of girls go missing. Down from 904 to 845 in just 10 years. The Patels of Gujarat are a wonder,taditionally rich peasants, there is no trace of girls in their villages. It’s femicide, the systematic killing of women.  A holocaust going on against girls across the country.
Sometimes I think ‘educated’ people  can plan the murder of their fetuses with much more skill than uneducated people.

In India, we worship Goddess “Lakshmi” for wealth and Goddess “Saraswati” for knowledge but we kill our daughters. Are we not afraid of doing such a shameful crime? Killing a child before the birth is equivalent to a murder.
My dear fellow citizens, if the above situation provokes you, haunts you, then you should not just sit back,join hands together with organisations like "SAVE THE GIRL CHILD" and many more working  day and night to erase such crimes from the face of earth. It is not the sole responsibility of the government it is also a social challenge which we, as responsible citizens need to take up to put an end to this deviation.

Dreams......

As a child, we all have dreams, aspirations, unimaginable feats we’re unrealistically trying to achieve. Why is it that when we’re young, we’re so imaginative and willing to believe? Is it because we are still so innocent? What happens between childhood and adulthood that makes us all forget who we really are?  Maybe it’s this ideology that we’ve all taken up as a coping mechanism. Don’t expect much and you won’t be disappointed. Maybe it’s the realities of life that makes us push aside what we really want just to get by. That’s the process that I find most unfortunate of all  in life. There’s this ever encompassing idea that dreams can be too big for one individual to handle. We’d rather give up and settle than run a extra mile. We’re distracted by things we think we need and when we are unable to grasp it, our world goes awry.
Everything is wrong, but nothing is really wrong.
The difference between childhood and adulthood is the ability to put your dreams into actions. The child inside you believes..while the adult inside you acts. I believe that carrying big dreams in our hearts and then bringing them to life is an essential part of living fully.
I have seen many beautiful dreams fail simply because the dreamer didn’t have the self-confidence to see them through. They worry that maybe it was too big of a dream. They start to feel that maybe they aren’t actually good enough to want something so amazing.  Knowing that you are worthy of your dream is an essential part of bringing it to life. Growing up with positivity and affirmations helps create a solid foundation of self-esteem.
Most essential thing is one should be okay with failing.  If you never try to reach your dreams because you’re afraid that you’ll fail, then you’ll never know for sure if you could have made them come true.
 It’s just one life that we have now..it’s everything in between that makes it a great ending.

Uncertainty. ...a test

Sometimes when life throws us a curve ball, We try to think of it as a test; as some obstacle thrown in our way just to see how we will react. And when we encounter those moments we try to hear these words: This is a test. This is only a test.

It's a test of time. It's a test of faith. It's a test of life and of love and of taking each day for what it is. It's a test for all of us, to believe that everything will turn out ok; to believe that everything will turn out exactly as it should.

Because it's a test, there is also a secret. There is a key that unlocks the answers. The answer is simple: it's merely to try. To try your best. To try to understand. To try to have faith and have patience and have hope.

To solve the puzzle you just have to put yourself out there. You have to be yourself, you have to go with your gut. You have to be you to find the right way. You have to believe to keep on track.

And of course, there will be moments of doubt, there will be tears and sorrows. And although there may be heartache, there will also be solace. There will be riddles and there will be answers. We will think we are repeating old patterns but we will find new truths. We will be confronted with old demons and we will think differently about solutions. And just because something looks the same, just because a situation seems to rear its same ugly head, doesn't mean it is the same, doesn't mean the end is a forgone conclusion.

The answer is to try and to try again and again. Because in trying new things we may find new happiness. In the belief of things meant to be, we may find new light. In continuing to hope we may be the most surprised.Uncertainty can be uncomfortable, really nothing in life is certain, and in the meantime  we should surround ourselves with those we love, and relish in the joy of today while hoping for the best tomorrow.
After all, this is the life.