Best Takeaways From My ‘Social’ Outings

    • Team NIE
    • Publish Date: Jul 4 2016 5:32AM
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    • Updated Date: Jul 29 2016 10:25AM
Best Takeaways From My ‘Social’ Outings

Sayasha Sharma, a former student of Lotus Valley International School, Gurgaon shares what she learnt while working with kids in Himachal Pradesh and Haryana

I never planned to take up social work, it just happened to me, and it happened for good. My family roots are in the remote villages of Himachal Pradesh. Whenever I get to spend time in the villages, I make it a point that I go to the schools there, and do something which will better the system there. Even though my body of social work and contribution to society are extremely ordinary, but, whatever I have done as a teenager, it has taught me a lot. Here’s a list of the best takeaways from my ‘social’ outings. 

It brought me closer to the functioning of rural areas: Living in the protected environment of school and home we start believing that the atrocities of the caste system or that of misogyny exist only in the political science books but once I started visiting the schools and household of these Himachali villages and Haryana I realised that our country has so much more to it than the city lights that blind us and once I learnt this my understanding of the real world made me way more sensible than other kids my age.

 

Understanding uncertainty: One thing I learnt about human life is that it’s highly uncertain. Way back in 2013, I met this girl named Anamika in one of these villages, she spoke in flawless English and I knew she wasn’t a native. Later I discovered that her father had just recently lost everything and they were forced to shift back to their village. While I assumed that she must be going through her, in reality, she seemed content, simply because she was with her family. One day you have everything and the next everything disappears, I learnt that life is uncertain for many, so the lucky ones should take up the responsibility to help the ones in need.

 
 

It made me speak up: While I was involved in a project in Tikri village of Gurgaon I interacted with kids whose voices had been killed by years of poverty. On the other hand, our voices, they lay intact, they haven’t been killed and thus we should use these to speak up against every inhuman act that affects children or women of small villages and cities.

 
 

Gratefulness: I have seen the condition of schools, homes and children in the interior of this country and the most important thing it taught me is gratefulness. We are equal… at least that’s how it should be, but some of us are way too privileged and we should be thankful about it. 

 

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