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Times have changed to be hard on us! As the years pass by, I wonder who has the satisfaction of living the life that they once wished???

When I look at the society of ours from a top angle - right on top from where the crazy creator is -  all of us down here are divided by a line. Ofcourse am NOT talking about the equator! This line has never manifested "equal", not even close. Its the Line of Money! 

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On one side we have the people who are loaded with money and on the other.. the people who are trying to cross the line and move towards the plenty side of it. The funny part here is, people with lots of money, all of the seem like they belong to the same bundle. No difference between them because they all can afford the need, want and desire.

But people on the other side of the line are the complicated lot. Even though they are all together on the same side of the shore, there is a world of differences between them. Each one's need, want and desire may be the same but their affordability differs to a great extent. 

We have the so called upper middle class - who are close to the line, then there is middle class - who stand second and then we have all the other people below the middle class, which is sadly the majority in our country. The catch here is all of these sub categories.

Okay right! this is general economics, you didn't want me tell you all of these. Agreed! But what am trying to point out is how we have let the money rule us. Its become the ultimate deciding factor in what ever we do or need. Consciously we have tided our eyes so not to see money take over mankind.

Here's what happened...

It was a normal Wednesday evening, my cousins and I went to watch a movie at the mall. We bought the "normal class" tickets and went to the theater. Next to our seats, few kids aged between 6 - 15 years were seated. The movie was played and all of us started to enjoy! During the intermission, my cousins went out to get something to eat and I remained in my seat. Left alone, I started to medal with my phone and just then, the small kid next to me, began to pester the elder brother to go with him to the counter to get something to eat. But the elder one refused to go with him. The kid innocently said, "I have 100 rupees please come with me". Looking at it, the elder brother said that he wouldn't get anything for 100 rupees and it's waste of time to go out. Though, the kid refused to believe his brother, he forcefully took him out but returned without buying anything.

Are you able to see the irony of life here? How money has eaten away our smallest of joys. Going out for a movie and enjoying it with a pack of popcorn seems such a normal thing. But, the small kid could not get even that little happiness which would have been his worlds dream. Sadly we are living in an era where the movie tickets are lesser than the popcorn price. :/

Money has grown to be way to powerful than we can imagine. Things that seem normal are turning out to be luxury to most of us. As the movie dialogue goes - richer is getting richer and poor is getting poorer. Movies change, actors change, audience and theater also change, but this age old dialogue remains true even today.

Isn't there a need for us to do something about this. We need to act before money takes way the value of life.

{I hope it does offend anyone. Just wanted to share how unfair life is becoming for some of us. I mean, when did popcorn become a luxury!??!}

As I woke up this morning, a bad memory flashed into view. It's something awful that always puts me into deep pain and fear.

Not too long ago.. There was a bomb blast in the locality I live.. It took away life's of few innocents.. And left behind painful scars for many. Even before the scars could heel and fade away,  there was another devastating incident which took the city by storm. It claimed the life of a mother, injured few and left the others in trauma.

The question that keeps taunting me is.. 
Where is this world going to?  This cruelty, hatred, greed, How did it find us? Do we have a name for this darkness that is breeding inside us..??

Someone once said, We would soon reach a time, where we send our children into the world like we send young men to the war..  Hoping for their safe return, knowing that we would lose some of them along the way... And today we have reached that world.  We have reached the time where we are obsessed with our own desires and go to any extent to take what is ours and not bother  whom we hurt along the way!

When did we lose our way?  When did we let the darkness take over us? Did it consume us... Or did we seek it out and embrace it with our lives?? Is there still even a slightest reason to believe that humanity exists among us?

Every time I think of this distressing event, I find no reason to believe that we are still 'being humans'. There is no reason left for me to believe that it's going to get better after each day. But still something keeps pushing me, a voice that constantly says I should never give up believing, it always echoes that I should hold on to the little hope stuck in some corner of my heart.

This voice constantly keeps echoing within all of us. Every time you are losing hope, or giving up on something, or  when you tend to do something that you shouldn't ...it echoes. It's like a warning alarm. It's like a guide within us. But most of the time we tend to ignore it. We get so easily carried away by the things around us that we have forgotten to listen and do what our hearts say. Probably if the person behind causing these awful events had given just one minute and listened to his heart, we wouldn't have lost our dreams, our dear ones, our lives.

I don't know whether am trying to question things for which answers are unknown or am trying to make a judgment.. Or trying to find an answer for the innocent souls who left for no fault of theirs.. Or maybe I am just too confused and lost a midst this darkness! But whatever it maybe, whether or not am going to find an answer for my questions, I surely have got reminded of something that I had forgotten to do. To LISTEN. To listen to the voice of my heart.

With a hope that soon things would change and we get to live and give our generations to come to live, in a world that is whole lot better than today, I wish that I wake up for a better tomorrow.