Community service has always been
an integral part of my living. I get this internal happiness, *indescribable*
thing after performing it. For me, money can’t replace the happiness achieved from
one’s prayers- Enough said.
I have been to different NGOs,
organizations and have always achieved the sensation of love, service,
affection and care. I doubt the fact of achieving it after going to DARUL SUKOON, a.k.a DATEUL
SUKOON- the name itself drops down
the level of respect and dignity *shame*
This blog is dedicated to all
those who have been to darul sukoon or are going there without any meaningful
reason, except for proving themselves as burgers/mailas/famous/cheap. These
reasons don’t even worth a damn. Apologies to the ones who actually go there
for helping those differently able people out - I respect you guys. This might
get highly sarcastic or even deserve a weird confession, but who cares. All I
want is a good, new, respectful beginning and a sense of realization.
(NOTE: DUS is short form for
DARUL SUKOON)
It all begins like this, my very
first experience at DUS. Ignoring all the unbearable comments about Darul, I
still believed that I could actually have fun over there, helping those kids
out. I actually promised my friends, this one thing and with this, I went there.
(committing the biggest mistake- I confess)
It was 9:00am, the exact time for
volunteers to come. One of my friends hurriedly said: ‘Go, grab a chair or we
won’t have anything to sit at then’. I was shocked. Ignoring her comment, I
just looked at my surrounding, all those faces of differently able people- I
felt blessed. I went to few of them, had a great chat. Everything was amazing
and I said to my friends, ‘are you guys crazy? This is AMAZING. What is so bad
about DUS after all?’ All they could manage to say was ‘wait and watch.’- Weird
people.
I saw a disabled girl, nearly
about my age and she kept on singing this one song ‘ oh laal patein wale tera
naam tou bata’. Yes, we had this red colour string supporting our ID CARDS.
Anyways, this was cute. I decided to go to her for a little chat but I was
late. I went to another girl sitting on the bench and waved ‘HIIII’, to my
surprise the voice echoed. Oh no, it wasn’t an echo but the voice of two cheap
boys who I believe, decided to ‘PULL MY
LEG’. Poor fellows, they didn’t know my ‘I DON’T CARE’ attitude.
This is it, the beginning of
awkwardness everywhere. People with DSLR, disco type dresses, love buds,
burgers, mailas, munnis, shelaas EVERYWHEREEE! I mean it. The amount of
volunteers was much more than the amount of disabled people. I can bet one
thing, you will find one couple on every other room of DUS. It’s not like the
management don’t care about it or something, they are caring and providing an
opportunity to you- to serve. Sadly, our citizens don’t know how to make a good
use of it. When you go there, no wonder you are proud to see so many teenagers
coming up to SERVE, but after knowing their real reasons, hand palm is what you
want to dedicate.
One hour left in twelve, I didn’t
know how to spend this one hour effectively. I asked my friend to join me in
playing games with the differently able kids, and this is how she responded,
‘Are you insane? I don’t want my name to be up for confessions’. BINGO, this is
how I got to know about this DISRESPECTFUL PAGE. ‘Confession pages are church
and the page owner is the father’- completely agreed. After confession pages of
all the schools, and hangout places, I was amazed to know about DARUL SUKOON’s TIPS AND CONFESSIONS.
Nothing can be more shameful than this. An honorable place serving differently
able people, who deserve our care, respect and time- this is not how you
FULFILL this commitment. No way.
I remember a group of boys,
chasing a disabled boy and asking him to go to people and say nasty stuff, I
mean seriously. At few points, I feel ashamed to call them normal/blessed/not disabled/HUMAN.
Their inhumanity proves their over KEWLNESS and family belonging. If this is
what you all call FUN, or go to DUS for, I am sorry. Your meaningless
certificate will allow you to ace this world but after life you will be sorry
and ashamed of your deeds- silent
message.
I saw many, who confessed that we
are here for the ‘CERTIFICATE’,
because for them, that is the only thing that matters. Let me tell you one
thing, most of the highly reputed school don’t even prefer DUS certificate anymore.
If you think it’s easy enough to fool them with a certificate, you are wrong. I
was the one who made one of my friend’s certificates. I wonder if that’s how
you describe ‘I used my summers effectively’ thing.
I will get killed for
generalizing everything but to be very honest, people when you get an idea to
serve, it’s worth your time and deed. Use it goodly. Don’t spoil the name of an
organization who works for the betterment of Disabled-differently able people.
Take a minute break and think. Try to realize the importance of that place and
our impact on children over there. Try to realize that the time you spent over
there, was that even worth? Was your mission of HELPING THEM OUT or BEING A
GOOD TEENAGER or FEELING FOR THE
NEEDY, successful? When you will share your ‘being burger at DUS stories to
people, they will hate you. FOR SURE. If you are going there for an hour or
even less than that, give your full input in it. What goes around comes around.
Let’s wake our inner self up, let’s work to get that internal peace and
happiness.
‘I WASTED MY THREE HOURS OVER THERE’, I can say this without any
shame, because lying to myself, for something that I didn’t do-this is a SHAME.
Think about it, share this to your friends, and wake your sense of realization
up. A certificate is of no worth until you worked hard to achieve it. That’s
all I have to say.
TIME TO THINK, WHAT YOU DID AND WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW!
This is really good post. Its enough to aware the people are still planning to go to DUS for volunteering. Great one azimad !
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