The world is unfair and what you can do about it

We live in scary times, no I am not referring to the ongoing pandemic here, this is about us ‘humans’, the most advanced living beings in nature and how day by day we are making the world around us even more difficult.

The recent migrant crisis which we witnessed in India, is an example of the same. There were people dying on streets of hunger, children elderly alike being transported in trucks, vans with no social distancing, whatsoever. I even saw a video of people coming out of a cement tanker, can you imagine the scene of being locked up in such a vehicle in the hope of reaching your home!

We of course sympathized when we watched them on our television screens. But did it actually take a pandemic to make us realize of their existence. Has the divide not always existed. The poor have always faced the brunt, it is just that this time we could not ignore it, because it was so evident. Well, definitely the people in power need to be blamed for the absolute chaos caused, I take an apolitical stance when I say this. Every citizen deserves to feel secure and safe, not only the rich.

Sushant Singh’s suicide raised eyebrows across the nation. We all felt that he did not deserve to go the way he chose. But here again it actually took a suicide for us to appreciate the man’s work, his intelligence. Why as a society did we fail such an immensely talented, hardworking, self-made man?

When a leading actress states that it is her ‘karma’ that she is born in her family and she is proud of it. I simply do not understand how it could be someone’s karma to be born a Kapoor or a Khan. It is purely a privilege which they enjoy and it is high time they accept it, just as the rich have the privilege of money.

We certainly need to change, otherwise these instances will keep on repeating. Understand your privileges, take advantage of them if you have to, but not at the cost of fellow human beings.

Be a Sonu Sood in your own way! I do believe that the world can be a much better place, if we all do our bit. The next time you walk into a movie theater or a voting booth, remember the power and responsibility has always been yours, use it wisely. No point of blaming the existing systems if we ourselves choose them.

I will leave you at this…this is me signing off…until next time…

~Alifia