Earth's Children Are Still Humans


THAT EPISODE THAT SPEAKS OF                 THE HOMELESS CHILD.

The pain that comes with childlessness is same with that which come with the denial of the joy of childhood, the shelter of parenthood and the comfort of neighborhood. These are supposed streams of family. When the hood that ensures family is stripped, the feeling of joy is annihilated, the assurance of shelter is shattered and the provision for comfort erased.
If you really want to know who a homeless child is, then be ready to go round the circles of deprivation. That homeless child is without a guardian that is why he is homeless. If he had a parent he wouldn't have needed a guardian. Then it means he is an orphan, yet with no chance of meeting his right to dwell in the orphanage, the supposed home for his class.  It is not his unwillingness that has denied him the weirdness of an orphanage, but the attitude of indifference that has permeated deeply into the fabrics of the human society.
He is exposed to the calmness and haughtiness of the natural and chemical environment. He sleeps with eyes wide open, dreams of the dark aged men of the underworld and wakes to see himself lying in the mess made by splitters and rusts from the gutters. He is raped by the activities of the night walkers; and if he is besiged with luck, he would meet his parts intact.
He wakes to continue the activities of the day, kneeling and begging. In the cold of the breeze, the litters of the rain and in the scourge of the sun. The woman pass by without a notice of him, the man takes notice of him but turns cautious to avoid being picked pocket; while the boy looks at him with a rare sense of pity and the girl with disgust. In the crowd he enjoys the most space because everyone would run from his touch.
I would see him and think of him as lazy. I might forgive his age and blame his parents or the government, but I would never blame myself. You too might act likewise. Or maybe you would say now, "oh I would have acted differently".
But at this point it is not about how one would have acted or had acted. It is more about how you will act now. Every living being has a role to play in that child's life. Bring up your little child to the consciousness of the other who is homeless. Let him point to him while you are coming back from your shopping. Let him say "oh mama, look at this cute boy, he is dirty I think he needs help". When he turns youthful he wouldn't bully the homeless child, rather would help him cross the road, help him tie his sandals and let him a little coin to buy some bread. This training would bring him compassion in his adulthood. He would see the homeless child and shelter him instead of blaming the government. He would turn him into his child and not just into one of the children around. And when he grows old, he would have the blessing of old age, the care of humans and the guidance of heaven.
When you have done this, then you would have proven that humanity is family. And the humanness in humans expresses the fact that family crosses lines, breaks boundaries and exceeds limits.

THEOPET.


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