We live in a society and millions of
things happen around us, some inspire us , some make us laugh and some force us
to QUESTION . There are times when you ask you ask questions to yourself.
Mostly it is something depressing and unfortunate that makes us question. It
can also be called as an Inner debate because here we are the one who puts up
questions and we ourselves answer those questions. Sometime back even I was
experienced the same situation.
Friends are a major part of life and
today I believe that those people are lucky who are blessed with best friends.
Friends who are with you in thick and thins and within every aspect of life.
I too was blessed with an amazing friend
named Pratysha Ghildiyal , I was friends with her since last 14 years I knew
her from the very first day of school. She was in my class and my house, we
lived nearby we were together all the time in school together , tuitions and
playgrounds we had common friend circle. We were not just a part of each
other’s life but we were each other’s life.
We grew up together. Sadly we were in
different colleges but we met daily. We used to chill out in the evenings
together.
One day we decided to go to CP and do
some shopping, Like any other day we met we had some good time together. While
driving back from CP she asked me to drop her at Noida Mod as she had some work
there, the roads were full cars, busses and trucks I asked her if she wants me
to drop her home but she denied and she left. After an hour my old classmate
called me up, after his call I didn’t know what to do how to react. I was just
blank. He told me that Pratysha is no more and she died in a road accident. I
couldn’t believe what he said or maybe I didn’t want to believe what I heard. I
went to her house immediately and I saw my friend lying on the floor covered
with a white cloth which had turned red till then. I didn’t know what to do. I
just sat down and all those 14 years of friendship and togetherness ended. I
had a picture of the time we had spent together. Her parent were crying like
anything and I didn’t know how to console then because I myself was not in a
state to do so.
Later I got to know the excat thing what
happened there, she was hit by a HCL private bus.
There were about 20 to 30 people in the
bus and nobody had the guts to help her. A girl called her up her father and it
took her father reached the accident place after 40 minutes. For 40 minutes she
was lying on the road crying for help but no one came forward to help her.
People passing by stopped their cars looked at her and went. Nobody came
forward.
Her father took her to the hospital but
the hospital denied to admit her. She was full of injuries and her father to
her to 3 different hospitals trying to save her precious life. But I think her
life didn’t mean anything to anyone else. As a result she died. According to me
it was not only my friend who died but I think that our humanity has died.
This incident shattered me.
During and after all this I had a lot of
questions in my mind, I wanted to know why did it happen. I wanted to find out
the hidden reasons.
The first major question which came into
my mind was –
· WHY DIDN’T ANYONE TAKE A STEP FORWARD TO
HELP HER?
If
anyone is dying on the road and crying for help then people will not help her
only because they don’t want to get into any problems. As it is always said ‘if
you help a person who has met with an accident, you are putting yourself in a
problem’, but is this thought soo strong that you will let anyone die but will
not go and help the person.
All
the people were present at that moment they could see how serious she was, if
they would have taken her to the hospital then she might have survived. Isn’t a
life precious.
I
would say that in place of pratysha it could be anyone, so what should we all
do?
STOP
the car SEE what’s happening and then START the car again to move ahead.
Being
a responsible citizen is it not our responsibility to help others, even she was
someone’s daughter, sister, friend why don’t we think about their families.
It’s
been 2 years since this happened and her mother is still in a shock she can’t
believe that her daughter is no more
· SHE WAS TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL, WHY DIDN’T
THE HOSPITAL ADMIT HER?
After
her father got to know about the accident he took her to hospital but the staff
refused to admit her. Giving an excuse that it’s an accident case and you have
not informed the police therefore by law we can’t admit her. The second excuse
they gave was that we don’t have proper equipments to treat her. Seriously? You
are running a big hospital and you don’t even have equipments, then what kind
of a hospital it would be.
It
was a small clinic which admitted her but till then she had lost her life.
Nower
days even the hospital does not want to get into all this and they want to stay
away from this. It’s a sad truth of our society but yes it happens.
· HAVE I LEARNT ANYTHING FROM THIS
INCIDENT?
When
I ask myself if I have leant something from this then I would say that I surely
have because when you experience something it is only then when you actually
know how it feels. Me losing my best friend, it showed me the true mirror of
our society and how selfish people can actually be. After this I have promised
me if I see someone dying on the road I will not just stop and look at him but
I will try to help her. If i want to change something so why not to start it.
Be
the change you wish to see In the wold
MAHATMA GANDHI
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