Human-made intentional disasters, who are responsible, who suffer, who will solve?



What makes enormous challenges in the world? I will not say challenge, I would say INTENTIONAL DIFFICULTIES. If you think how we make our lives miserable doing some intense inconsiderable work. There are a lot of issues- child labor, dowry system, early marriage, disparity between men and women, drug addiction, acid throwing, being involved with illegal work such as terrorism, robbery, and war and if you keep thinking you will find so many more issues. I say these as INTENTIONAL DIFFICULTIES because I believe they are intentional in this world where every one of us is aware of our rights, responsibilities, and finding better ways of living. If we put together ALL challenges and difficulties of our planet, we would obviously see that what we do is more dangerous than what nature does, I mean natural disasters. Flood, earthquake, cyclone, tornadoes will come naturally and we try to escape them or try to lessen the effects of these natural disasters.



But do we ever try or think to escape our own made disasters? Do we even think that we are the antagonists of ourselves? Obviously no one does feel even a slight of his or her work (if it is "disaster").



Just to mention, suppose child labor, why do we allow or force children to carry unbearable workload? If we did not make them work, there would not be any protests, conventions, any concerns against this illegal; I would better say inferior work. Who are they we are forcing to work instead of giving a chance to get education and other basic rights? Who are they we make protests against (because of these kind of inferiority)? We all are one family in our home, the earth. If we consider ourselves one member, why cannot we stop abusing another member of our family? We are always more than hundred percent careful to our children, but we do not feel that other children are also here in this world as we are. I can tolerate that we do not care about them as much as we do for our own children, but we can at least do not do harm for them so we do not make their miserable lives more miserable.



Now, think that cyclone destroyed your city, what do you do? Of course first, you suffer! You cannot blame anyone as it is the naturalness of the nature. Then all of you put your arms together to eliminate the destruction that cyclone gifted you. And after some struggle you find your city in a better position. But child labor or child abuse is not an effect of nature; it is we who are responsible for this unnatural disaster. Do we blame ourselves? You do not blame yourself but others. Do we put together our hands to stop this? You may say, "Yes." But I would say, "No." Putting together does not mean that you will always do conferences, make laws against it. I meant then I would say we are together when I will see that we do not allow child labor, and then there won't be even a question to stop child labor..... I do not agree doing rally or a specific day for every wrong thing we do (means Child Labor Day, women's rights day... this day, that day...etc...) If you do not "do" what is wrong in your opinion, then this world will be lovely with all right things we do, and our only planet will be surrounded by love and care. We will still be fighting against natural disasters and that time it will indeed be easy to solve the problems..... I am not saying I do all the right things, but I say, "I do not do wrongs that are harmful to my fellow humans."



I wanted to write all disasters that we make for ourselves, but it is not possible to write all of them at the same time, I will write more about this.



I feel so sad to write all these because I know that all of us know what right and wrong are, but we do not apply in "real life platform." Even myself? What I am doing is nothing, I am just writing my thoughts, but my writing cannot make others think about all that I wrote.



My eyes are looking forward to that day when we will not be our antagonists any more.....



Nasima

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