Lets Do Something

Don't let it just flow

Dear "Who-ever is reading"

I was pouring some water into my bottle and I was obvio absentmindedly doing that. and whoosh a lot and I mean quite a lot. maybe half a cup fell out. 

I didn't expect but I have not felt this sense of loss in_ perhaps forever.

I needed that, someone across the globe probably needed it more than me. And I was so foolish to not be careful with what I was doing. If I was pouring out a bottle of liquefied gold, I would have taken it as a life-and-death job. But here I was being careless with water which is waay waaaaaay more valuable. 

Why??

Because today I have as much as I want. But what if tomorrow I don't. What if cuz of wasting it, someday I will earn for it just as that little boy does. 

The excess water I have here was probably meant to be his share. 

I am living in that 20% part of population that is gifted with soo much of everything. at the same time I am a part of the 20% that eats up the portion of the rest of the poor world.

I thought about the time when we had a water fight at school, and the same day which was a hot day, I was returning home with an empty bottle. And I met a construction worker. He must be so hot and so thirsty. He was fixing up the road for us. And I didn't even have some water to offer. I had wasted it. What did I achieve in doing that. 

Now all the countless times  come in my mind. The day we threw water balloons at each other. The times when my friends just leave the taps open and I just watch. Excess water from the cooler drops down, while there are plants in our neighborhood that are drying up. 

No, but you may ask and me too asked myself, nobody thinks this way, then why should I , Why Should I Care??

Because, first of all, I am a consumer and it would have someone to be shameless and a hard heart to just keep taking and polluting without saying at least a thanks and more better giving something back. 

Our ancestors used their resources judiciously just so we could have the too. And that not only applies to water but to every other thing. And because of us we don't want small children in the future to suffer. We don't want anyone to suffer. 

Or forget about the future, right now at this moment there are small children, families, living without water for days. They cry just for a drop. And to think that their share of the world is what we are using her, or more like wasting.

Next time I am not going to cup my hands and fill them with water and think, "Just a little bit only" ...."No".... I am going to use only so much I need and not waste any. In Sha Allah

And I can swear, every time you save, even if its just a drop. You may have made a difference for somebody else. And you may have taken all of humanity to a new level when someone else will inspire from you. And you have grown a bit more beautiful that day.