The daily buss of life makes us take many things for granted and many times something really disastrous makes us really value it. For the last ten days I was regularly going to the Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai as my aunt was being treated for cancer there. Initially I did not realize how dangerous this diseases was until I saw how many were affected by it without any remedy. The thing that moved my heart was when I saw a young kid effected by cancer, he was bald apparently because of the chemotherapy treatment and had a couple of tubes on him and he was so little hardly 6 years of age completely unaware of what he will face and without even knowing the true meaning of life. Then again I saw another kid this was a toddler, I could not believe that such a small kid could be having this diseases. We really don’t know the importance of life and we easily give up when we face hassles in life, looking at such small kids who smile at u when u see them makes u realize that even big hassles of life are small compared to what they go through. We have been so involved in the materlistic world of ours that we don’t realize the importance of life and how lucky we are to be alive till date without any suffering. One incident that really made me think that we should value life is when one day at the same hospital a 3 year old kid passed away and that too very abruptly in the middle of her treatment and it was something which was very hard to believe and when u see such kids sitting there in the queue for their chemo and playing withe their toys without even bothering why they are there in the first place. This made me realize that there is so much to be done in this world other than being selfish we should help such people who are effected in such bad ways , may be someone does not realize what I am feeling or what i am trying to say but the day when a dying kid smiles back at you showing one of his tooth missing and that innocent smile makes u feel really sad because u know how things will end up with him while he’s unaware what he’s gonna go through.
It’s really sad that for some money is not a problem but their cancer is so serious that money can t save them and for some people cancer is at a moderate stage but they don’t have money to get it treated for example a simple tube or a stapler that is used instead of the stitches costs more than 20K and many times the lack of a specialist for a particular cancer makes matter s worse and the costs go up to Rs. 20 lacs for an injection. Kids at the age when they are supposed to play and laugh around they spend major part of their childhood undergoing treatment. Another incident that made me feel bad was when a kid hardly 10 or something was waiting with his parents for the lift and all of a sudden he started crying aloud holding his stomach and every1 was stunned including his parents as no one knew what happened to him and then he was taken to the emergency ward for treatment. This particular experience made me value life more than I used to and made me realize that as an individual we have to fulfill some social responsibilities towards the society by helping such people as much as we can in the span of our life, because u don’t know when u will be pulled the loop of any such thing.
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