WHY!

It was just another incident in a series of events that pushed her eventually to collect her ideas, hold her pen and write down her thoughts. She never meant to criticize or condemn, just practicing simple rights of observing, reflecting and commenting. Could it really be happening? Why? and how?

- "Excuse me, what are you talking about?", speak up, clarify!

I am talking about a fellow in a car whose little toy 'beep, beep' is just a horn brought into play every second of the day to alarm and scare people here and there. Alongside, another guy whose joy is to turn on high rock 'n roll, jazz and rap. In front of both is a walker, or should I say a 'talker', whose favorite moment is to hold his mobile and talk all the time. Watch it! You are crossing the road, the lights are red! 'Who cares? God will help!'

On the other end of the street, away from the fumes of cars and the clatter and clamor of people, there was a decent looking man enjoying the company of his family in a fancy car. Unexpectedly, a swift torrent of wrappings, Pepsi tins, and remains of sandwich packs were thrown by the family from the fancy car window. That was definitely enough to reach the point of deciding to walk to the favorite park. Unfortunately to her surprise, the sight of colorful roses, trees and the beauty of greenery were replaced by a huge heap of waste.

Disappointed as she was, she ran off the street and went down to the underground to what she thought could be a better place hoping to reach her appointment on time. She was still trying to overcome the appalling scenes of untamed attitudes and atrocity to her beautiful park. She held out her hand with the money to get the ticket, when all of a sudden; a rush of people pushed her aside. Astonished, rather shocked by this wild attitude, she called out asking people politely to line up to take turns. All at once, people looked down at her wondering what this odd girl was talking about. Amazed, she was rendered speechless.

Feeling let down, she moved forward until she reached the train platform. Five minutes passed and she was still waiting. After waiting and waiting, the train finally appeared in the way. As soon as she stepped on to get into the train, legs were heard dashing the ground and a stampede of people pushed her behind. Startled, she opened her mouth in awe wondering what that was all about.

She has been witnessing outrageous attitudes the first minute her legs tread into the street. A million question popped up in her head at this moment. Why were people acting so bizarre? What happened to people’s code of conduct? Why has it gone so poor? Why have morals deteriorated? Why are they offending other people by violating their rights? Why are they encroaching on nature rendering it grimy? Why have people lost the sense of beauty inherent in every one of us? Why has the abnormal become so normal and accepted by others as if for granted?

Many whys troubled her but from now on she decided to defend her rights.