Sunday, October 30, 2005

Some help so that others can see it.

It is honestly pathetic to see the people's reaction after the recent devastating earthquakes in Pakistan and how everyone wanted to help after a delay of a few weeks. Immediately after the quakes, I kept screaming for help but there was no one around to head the calls. Untill, people realized that this is a great oppertunity to market their goodwill amongst their circles. So it happened, Pakistanis rushing for medical support, running after eachother to send goods to the effected areas, containers being filled so that they could be send across to the needy, and then filling up their websites and portals with remarks of hope and the hard work they have put in to impress others and themselves. Its like as if they did it all to impress themselves, their own little worlds and their peers. No one ever thought about making sure if the goods reached to the needy or not? Ya, I'll just do this much, fill up the container, put it on whatever and thats about it, now its time to market what I've done and sound like a winner right?? Hell, no, this sounds more like a losers stride. The truth is that those people in need couldnt get the food that they desperately needed, it might be infront of them but they cant touch it, the army is sleeping on those tents instead of the victims. they say its too dangerous to get to the victims as its getting cold and the roads are damaged..., then I ask you, what the hell did we do all these weeks? Were all the efforts made in vain.? What about forcasting future quakes? Is there anybody out there thinking about protecting whats left? They knew it was coming, but nothing was done about it, will we stay the same in the future? Numb and moroned....waiting to do something only after getting hit!