Its Thursday morning and since I had a class at 8:30, woke up early. Decided to do use my time and started on with my usual dose of orkut, mails and newspapers. On Orkut, I noticed quite a lot of forwarded messages which claimed to be collecting money for people suffering from some ailment. Though for a split second, I think of hitting the forward button, I end up dumping such messages in the trash. Then I move on to ndtv.com and there I notice this photograph and I am reminded of a similar child about whom I read in one of such forwarded messages. We live in a strange world- where you'll have people who spend billions of dollars on their birthday bashes or marriage parties sharing the same anatomy with people who cannot even afford two square meals a day. Hearing of such cases, especially where a child is combatting some fatal disease and it is refused treatment on financial grounds, affects me deeply. And more so because I know even if I could do something about it, I am not. In fact we have become so insensitive that when we even read such newspaper clippings or get such forwards, we either consider to be fraud or think ourselves incapable of doing anything. The fact there were, are and wil be certain fraud cases cannot be denied, but I feel that weshould not shrug from extending whatever liitle help we can towards such causes for fear of its misutilisation. We never know when we shall lose the genuine opportunity to help somebody in need because of such paranoia.
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