It is OUR world – Not Mine or Yours

It is OUR world – Not Mine or Yours

Here is the image of a man unearthing his treasure from refuse. His treasure- one square meal for him and his family

If the image above does not bring at least a semblance of rethinking in your mind, then search your heart.

In truth it ought to bring a couple of serious thoughts into your mind.

Firstly, look at how these verdant greens of a wetland are being used by some unscrupulous people to dump their waste, especially plastics. If one is the creator of waste, one ought to be the disposer too. This picture should expose the shamelessness of the doers of such dastardly acts.

More importantly and closer to heart, we should realise that this man picking his way through the trash, is there not to seek for hidden treasure. All the treasure he seeks is that meal that will prevent him and family from going to sleep, hungry. When you reject food on the table on the grounds that it lacks the taste or flavour that you expected and it ends in the refuse bin, how many of us realise that there are  thousands who would gleefully accept it as probably the only meal in several days.

The resources of this world that we partake in are not of our creation. We may justify this by saying that we purchased it, and justifiably too. Yet, how many of us realise that, even with the sense of rationalization… not giving in to any moral reasoning, that every bit of what we have, has a morsel of the hard work of countless unseen, unknown people.

As a believer, it is firmly a thought that all we have is truly not ours and are with us, only as custodians. All these belong to all and what we can’t truly use and hoard for an unseen future, should be shared fairly.

This man in the picture from a part of Kerala, foraging for his meal, should put in all our minds, a willingness to share and an ounce of humaneness.