This blog has been a few days in making.
Sometime back, my day started on a really sad and jarring note, I woke to the news of demise of the nice lady opposite my house. I was saddened; I had shared a warm smile and a cup of coffee with her on more occasions than one.
What really shook me was the news that she passed of heart attack, and delayed medical response. She got a heart attack around 3.30 midnight. The husband didn’t know driving. He went out looking for rickshaw, and then spent another 1 hour looking for a driver. We stay right opposite to his house and he knows that we all drive, for that matter there are over a dozen cars in my lane, almost every house has someone who drives a four wheeler. But he didn’t come to any one of us for help.
This incident made me feel vulnerable. What was going on in his mind, did he really think that we would not help him. If so, then what kind of a world are we living in now? Where even an emergency won’t force us to ask help from the very people we live beside.
Where are the days when neighbors were like family, to support, to trouble and just be there when you needed some help!! The modern thinking is intervening with our capabilities to trust and form bonds. Or is it just that we are not capable of forming a relationship that is not based on mutual profitability.
Suddenly I feel, an era has passed us by and this new age is not as pretty as the one gone by!
