Artlemi #2

Artlemi #2

Hello Artels,

Last week I left a question for all of you about Stephen Hawking’s theory of “God did not create the universe”. From the level of interest you all have shown it’s clear that leaving a question every week won’t be a smart movement from my side.

For the last few days I have been spending a lot of time to come up with an idea for this editorial. Last evening just to get an idea of what is going around the globe, I turned on the TV. It’s not that much of an idiot box, as many people call it, if you go through the right channels. I was having my noodles and surfing the channels. The best thing about being a serial channel surfer is that you get the sum of what is going around, very rapidly.

While looking around, my finger stopped when I found a beautiful scene on ‘Discovery channel’. It was an open blue sky and sun burning just in the middle. A bird, which I could not recognize at first,    

was flying in a circle like it was the emperor of the world. As the camera zoomed I suddenly understood what it was. It was a vulture, circling over something it had its eye on. As the camera lowered I was shaken to my very soul. I saw an open dried out land with a single broken hut standing strangely. Just beside the hut there was something, something black and it was moving. As the camera zoomed; it appeared to be something like a human child, thinner than you can ever imagine. The child was all bones wrapped with dry skin; I felt he can break into pieces if there were strong wind. Then the camera focused on his face and I was stunned to see his eyes. They were lively, full of joy; yes ‘joy’, because he was playing. He was playing with a toy, a toy we were lucky enough not to have as a child. It was, believe it or not, a human skull. The vulture was waiting…

Suddenly I was not hungry anymore. The food felt heavy, my eyes felt heavier. There was a question in my mind; ‘why?’, what have I done to deserve my life, all these beautiful things around me, I was not ever satisfied with? It was like the e-mail many of you surely been forwarded to, about people not having food to eat while we complaint about the taste of ours. I was not feeling like eating anymore. I put my food on the table, came back to my room, stood in front of my window and started thinking about the motive of my existence. I have read about Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, donating a huge portion of their money to organizations, working on issues like malnutrition in third world countries. I am not rich enough to do that but I wish I could do something. There are many websites where they donate money for our one click and even we can donate some money if we want. I checked few of them and I did what I could, clicked some buttons. Five minutes of our life can mean a lot of them. Please come forward and join them. You don’t have to pay, few clicks and you will feel a lot better about yourself. I did and I will keep clicking till I am able to do something more.

I know this editorial is particularly not something to leave a smile in the corner of your lips, that is how I always wanted to write and I am sorry for that but I wanted to unload some pain from my mind to people who, I am sure, will understand the needs of those children.

Well, keep sending your creations to datta.sen@gmail.com and enjoy reading Artlemi. Hopefully one day with your support we will grow enough to help those people in needs.

 Bye till next Sunday,

ArkaĐ