A Trust in Humanity is Lost

Years back, when a gentle loving touch and a chocolate given by uncles and aunts, bhaiyas and didis,
were enough to decide a person’s incorruptibility, when the innocent hearts were unaware of the
unseen masks on the faces of the people; my uncle, i.e., my father’s elder brother taught me the
“act of giving”, one of the kindest thing someone can do for someone. I was in 4th or 5th standard at
that time. He told me that giving is not necessary to be in the form of money; sharing anything that
belongs to you can bring that brightest smile on someone’s face, which will illuminate your soul as
well.

I had a packet of my favourite eclairs toffee. I thought to give some portion of it to the poor kids
whom I had spotted multiple times outside my colony. To warm the cockles of their heart, I happily
went to them, offered a toffee to one little boy but he refused. Then, I tried giving toffees to the
other kids but they all turned down my offer. We all are always instructed not to accept anything
from strangers, may be they had also been told the same by their parents. Thinking this, I came back
home and this incident got buried under the piles of other overlooked and common episodes of life.

But when I grew up and was mature enough to analyze this incident, I realised that ‘a trust in
humanity is lost’. It is said “children are human form of God”, but even they are looked with doubtful
eyes in this world of cruelty and selfishness.

Kidnapping, robbing and other such crimes have killed the trust from our hearts and untied that
human bond. We, up to some extent, try to build a humanly relationship, but what if the person
sitting next to me in a train has mixed something in his parathas and offering me? Though, they are a
few percent of the population, but they have spread doubts among us like an epidemic. And now,
we are slowly and slowly, drowning in the sea of loneliness.