IT'S JUST A LITTLE SPAN OF TIME....!!!

**P.S. this is a bit long post. still read it with heart.

It's not Blah...blah...blah...this time!!!! something serious about the most important time of our lives. A time when we learn, when we enjoy the beauty of our life. we play in the rain, run along the stream, write on the slates, read aloud, leave boats in the tub of water....and what not??? everything. This is the time when we really enjoyed our lives. we knew only this kind of childhood.

but today this is not the case. there are two kinds of childhood. one has only happiness while the other is buried in sorrow. we see children carrying colorful bags and going to school and also we get to see children working in the roadside hotels. we see children enjoying in the amusement parks and we see some of them cleaning roads leading to the park. The saddest problem our country is facing today is CHILD LABOR.

Even though it is a crime to recruit children below 14yrs of age, it seems like no one is actually concerned about the law. As a result of this, around 20 million children are working to earn them their food and help their families. people who put them to work say its "thier FATE" but is it so??? there are poor parents who give birth to a bunch of them and dont find any means to feed them and of course, cant afford to send them to school. Instead they forcr them to work and their livelihood and help them too. Is it the mistake of the children to be orn in a family who cant afford for a day meal or a little education???

while this is the case of children working under a roof, there are lot many others who dont have it too.....and we call them STREET CHILDREN. they pick thrown away papers and covers in the hot sun, beg at every door step and a bus station, get wet in the rain yet dont rest anywhere. no good food to eat nor good dress to wear...but they never complain. they stand at the school gate seeing the rest of the children study but then remember their work again. this is the childhood they are enjoying. they never complain it to be the mistake of their parents or anyone else inthe world.

there are lot many NGO's working to eliminate child labor and street children problem in India but what's the use when the people here are not concerned about it or if the government never tend to think about this problem.

if this is the problem with the children of the poor section of the country, there are children who are still not enjoying the beauty of childhood. they ar asked to study their subject, by-heart the rhymes and yes, learn some new things every day, and finally on a sunday there are hobby classes, Abacus classes waitting for them. they dont like doing them. they want to play with their frnds and enjoy the beauty of childhood. but which parent in the world is concerned about all these??? they just want their child to be the winner eventhought after knowing that only "ONE" can win.

Chilhood is a very small span of life and so lets come together to elimintate these problems and give a wonderful time to the little world.