HIS EYES DOESN'T SMILE
#MeetJunaid, This is a story of a child that I will never and ever get forget. I saw him for the first time on the 1st day of Eid, a festival of celebration and happiness for Muslims. It was a hot day and I was scouring streets as part of Shukriyabox campaign. I saw a hapless child standing against a wall literally reading “yehi to rang hai zindagi ka” (this is the color of life) wading through garbage to eat something, the hands of this beautiful child buried in the trash on the day of Eid, a course of dignity he chose instead of begging. That is the day I felt this grotesque color of life so deeply as it grafted itself in my soul like a shard of glass latched into the skin.
I kissed him on his forehead and gave him Shukriya gift box with eidi. Junaid, overwhelmed by so little an act of kindness began crying. He couldn't smile even for a photograph. And when he did it was the saddest of forced smiles I had ever seen. He kept cleaning his hands lest his gifts may be soiled. He was so ashamed of being dirty. It just broke my heart.
His eyes still haunt me relentlessly. I remember that day I was so moved too that as he walked to the end of the road clutching the gift I kept on mustering the courage to say something, but his tears that kept flowing till he disappeared around the corner drowned my ability to act or say anything.
I went back again several times lingering on the same spot to find Junaid. My eyes still search for him at the place where he left me a few months ago and mentally traces his steps into the darkness that have engulfed him.
How many beautiful hands of children, stained by merciless burns of poverty and garbage, did you see today?
Are you rooted in the same place like me trying to speak?
That's His Story! , See You Soon!
(Karachi, Pakistan)
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