Listen to the "silent words"

P.Biswajit Kumar
6th Sem Mech

The scar on HARRY’s forehead-none of us can forget. But the “scar in the heart of a ORPHAN” none of us ever thing of.
The scars just don’t seem to fade when they turn 18, but the life takes a U-turn in the search of value of living and self-worthiness continues for ever. Not having a mom or dad is a small part of being “ORPHAN”. But the real pain begins with a life of being rejected, neglected and unwanted. We can just tell long stories but can never feel their pains. None of us can ever.
Being an orphan is weird. Not just because you have no one but also because it breaks your links with the past, present and future. Whenever I see orphans begging in the streets, bus stands or in the railway station, I just think ‘is this the gift life has given them’. Children with torn clothes, empty stomach, bare foot……..their eyes have no tears to cry………Do we have nothing to do for them, just watch, watch and watch. We have programs like “no polio” but why not “no orphan”. Last week when I went to a orphanage, before night I have thought of doing … this.. that…and what not, but when I went there I just couldn’t do any thing. Neither I could understand what their silent eyes meant nor I could console them………I felt like being in a different world, where you have no mother to feel your hunger, no father to scold you, no brother to fight with and no sister to love you……
If you want to know what is the value of a second, ask the person who won second position in olympics. Want to know the value of a minute, ask the person who have just missed the train, the value of 5 minutes, ask the lover who is waiting a call from his/her beloved, the value of an day, ask the fishermen, who couldn’t go to the sea because of high tides. Want to know what is the value of nine months then ask the mother who has just given birth to a dead child. Want to know the value of a year, ask the student who has failed by one mark in the exam. But if you want to the value of life with love……. Who can better know than on orphan………
But we all are humans aren’t we. So what we are up to….If not a lot we can just spend a few moments with the orphans, which would give them some reasons to smile atleast. If we give a few moment of love,show caring and affection to them, then are we going to lose anything.Definitely we are not………
Our small initiative will surely lessen their grief. At least they can console themselves that there is someone who is thinking about them.So friends be human

“Dard hasi me bhi hota he,
Koi ro kar samjaye ye zaruri to nahi.
Samajh lena chahiye aakho ka chalava,
Koi izzhar karke bataye ye zaruri to nahi”

Try to learn to listen to the “Silent Words”.