EULOGIES ARE NOT ENOUGH!

Someone called yesterday’s tragic event as kamaris tragedy repeating itself, and I can’t stop thinking about how insensitive and careless we as a society have grown over the years that mourning over someone’s death by posting their pictures on social media is the maximum that we can do. The basic survival instinct in humans is to try to correct something and learn from it once a tragedy happens that results from human insensitivity more than God’s plans. However, in this so-called intellectual and literate society where we are so proud to brag about our 98% literacy rate, we lack basic health facilities. Not a single hospital is present that can cater to the needs of emergency situations like road accidents in an effective way, and we lose lives to the lack of medical facilities almost every year.

I wonder how many more lives would it take for us to break away from this silent mourning and accepting of tragedies as fate until we start taking action in terms of holding the political big guys and other influentials accountable so that the least they can do is to build a medical facility that can save lives in times like these.
My heart mourns over the loss of the three students, but I feel extremely helpless even to offer words of condolence to the family. Because I, like every other person of this society so chained in its values that it cannot speak for its rights, am equally responsible for their untimely departures. Naming the students shaheed and moving on with our lives will not be just to the souls, to the souls of all those that we have lost to the lack of medical care. What we rather need to do is to take action and ensure that whenever tragedies like this happen, we should be able to provide them with emergency aid. Asking for school buses for the children traveling to far-flung areas is another action we can take to ensure that tragedies like these do not repeat themselves. Being a witness to one such tragedy close to home, where I have seen my mother lose her only brother to such an accident, I know how it feels for the family to lose their loved ones, especially those that could have been saved if required medical facilities were available. Hence, cursing the system and posting eulogies to mourn them on social media is not enough. We need to ask those that hold big offices due to our votes to cater to our needs and provide us with basic medical facilities. It’s the only way that we can actually pay our regard to those little souls.

May their souls rest in the light.