#AIR CLINIC WRITING CONTEST 15: POVERTY THE ELDER COUSIN OF DISEASES
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I totally agree with you. I'll tell you why. Let me take you down the memory Lane.
She was my best friend. She was my seat mate back in high school. I was the five and she was the six.
And then It happened that day in the class room. She fell to the ground. We rushed her to the school clinic.
She has ulcer, she has been starved. The nurse said.
I remember the times she would come to my hostel after school and tell me she skipped her breakfast because she was always running late to school from and I would share my provisions with her. I never knew.
I never knew that she ate just once a day, and the other times she couldn't ask me for food, she ate nothing. I never knew.
I also remember the time she said fell while playing at home. A few days later, I didn't see her in school and when she finally resumed, she said her wound got infected because it was not treated but she was okay now. I never knew.
She was from a family of 7. She was among the 3 surviving children. The other siblings died of malnutrition. They lived in extreme poverty but she managed to hide them behind the smiles she wore to school everyday and I couldn't decipher. I never knew.
Words came to school that she passed away 1 month later.
She had asthma too and her parents couldn't afford an inhaler.
She was gone, before I could help her.
Before I could tell my parent that my partner was in critical condition and needed financial help.
That is how I lost my best friend.
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So heartbreaking! One thing i learnt in this life is, "never be too shy to ask for help. With this story of yours i perhaps thought of something, " it's possible they already resigned to fate.
Yea! They are in poverty, even if they ask for help and they got none, there is always something to be done to get rid of poverty. Not all people are bad, there are still some that would help willingly and unconditionally.
Like i said earlier, "it isn't our fault if given birth to in poverty but it will be our fault if we die in poverty.
Note: the above quotation works when the person in question is able to work. In other cases we ask for help. If you believe you will receive.
Poverty is by choice because it is curable and the cure lies with us even till death.
Thanks for sharing this story of yours, i really appreciate it.
I totally agree with you my dear.
To live or die in poverty is our choice. We can always work it out somehow.
In this case, she would have gotten help if she asked.
Thanks for reading and dropping your thoughts.
So sad
Yea dear.😢
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Sad 😔.
Yea, very very.