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It's in 1995 or 1996. I can't
remember the exact date. But from then to now I can't be able to forget the situation
I have faced then. Whenever, wherever I found any chance to share that among my
friends, relatives. colleagues or anyone else I shared instantly. This is the
first time I'm posting it officially in a Blog Post.
It could be anywhere, in my case
it was happened in my country, Bangladesh, at a public place where I used to go
regularly at that time. In a shiny afternoon while I was there to buy
something, a small crowd pulled my attention.
A man around 40-50 years old was
half-lying beside the road with a poorly weak physical condition. His
speechless pale face was expressing a lot. Though he was trying to tell the
people surrounding or passing by him that he was starving from the last 24-26
hours. He was a poor and helpless man, had no money to buy some food to eat.
Maximum people present there (including me) were familiar with his poor
position. It was unknown that either he had a place to live or either any
relative in his contact?
Now the main point, that knocked
my partially matured conscience (and still knocking) was - at that time the
minimum cost of some food for his initial survival was just 12.00 (currency was
not a vital point here). I don't know why no one (including me!) took any step
to help him?
My position was that I wanted to
buy something very necessary for me costs 20.00 and that all I have that time.
Though I can afford 12.00 for him and for my necessity purpose I could arrange
that amount again within less than an hour, but I didn't do that!
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After 6-7 hours while I was
returning through that same way surprisingly/coincidentally a bit bigger crowd
draw my attention where the man was struggling. I found him dead there. And I
felt regret?
I heard discussing people present
there that they had to do something with the corpse of that poor human being.
As none of his relative ever found or known by anyone, it was decided to
arrange a funeral for him which will cost around 1200.00 Two or three person
among the crowd were instantly being ready to bear the amount! Within the next
15 minutes the money was arranged and they started the funeral process and it
was finished successfully!
The summary of that incident (from my opinion),
which will be kept in my deeper mind (non erasable) till my death is - in our
present so called developed twentieth century's social status define that we
cannot spend an amount of 12.00 for a living human being which he/she needed
deadly and whether we have 6-7 hours in hand for doing that. But we are ready
to spend even 1200.00 within just 15 minutes after his/her death!
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