Vagaries of Life

Hi everyone.

I have been truly disturbed for the last few days after having read an article in Femina. While this is strictly a women's magazine, I sneaked a dekko at it (which i usually do to probably have a little glance on some good looking women or read on the lifestyles of the rich and famous.) and read this article which moved me to tears.

I read about this financially challenged woman who poses nude at a plush South Bombay oops Mumbai (i would not want to court controversy cause limelight is not what I am looking at with my blogs :)) art college for a meager 100Rs a day. Now, as a reader yo could dismiss this saying non sense. Chance hi nahi hai!! Bull crap!!!. Agreed !!! No one poses nude for 100 bucks.

But for once assume that this is true. At least I felt so when i read that article. She has two growing mouths to feed and her own expenses to meet. She does this job because she has nothing else to do since being a housewife till she had her husband made her a handicap at developing skills.

She tried to make ends meet working as a maid which obviously did not help her meet them. Hence she was forced to take up this heinous profile. Once you go through the article, it describes the kind of embarrassment she goes through initially and how she has now resigned herself to fate.

The most important thing that really struck me damn hard was one particular part of this article. She had been having an off day when a peon came up to her and said some students had requested for her to come since they needed to finish their term assignments. She out of just a thought for the kids studying there gave up what she was doing and was all set to go back to work and pose nude for those kids so that they study well in life, grow in to famous artists and not compromise with their careers due to paucity of resources like she has had to do!! Man!! This to me is something that would make the most stone hearted guys cry!! I felt similar pain when i had read "life and times of Micheal Kay" and have rarely felt that sad and low. I mean look at this woman. Barely educated. Doing a downtrodden job, living in a lousy locality. Yet she has thoughts that would put beliefs of people from the elite to the dogs.

How often do you see such things. Education does make one better. But that solely depends on the person. It depends on how much you take off it. It depends on how much you apply. It depends on how good you are from within. Have seen loads of creme de la creme folks from swish business schools being absolute rogues not thinking a wee bit about the society. And at the same time, you see such people and really think that the world is and could be a much better place to be.

Ones emotional quotient is probably inversely proportional to the money one has. Atleast this holds true for most of the people that i have seen so far in todays times. Money may bring you an elite lifestyle but cannot buy values. We have a huge amount of people around us who could add value to society and lessen the grief of a lot of people like this lady in question so that she does not have to resort to such a preposterous calling. Alas!! everything does not happen the way we want it!! Such are the vagaries of life!!

Harsh