Busy Metro Life

Nayeem lied on the road for 20 minutes before he finally expired. I guess people were too busy to have a look. I am just thinking if I was there, crossing the road at that time, would I have come forward to have a look? I am not sure and bending to a No. We all are so busy, so busy. 

Just 1 month back, I was stuck in Kakrail Moar jam when an office-going pedestrian got mildly hit by a rushing rickshaw. This was not fatal; the man got a few scratches just. But he looked to everyone else stuck in the jam, with an expectation of sympathy from us. Very few looked, including me. When they found that, it was not fatal- they carried on again. If he brawled over a mild hit, even I would term it as 'making a fuss,' I guess. After finding out no sympathetic eyes, the man gave an unprepared smile tinged with disbelieve (that none came forwarded to lift him) and lifted himself up and carried on. I was just in the car right behind the rickshaw that hit him. I didn't get out. I was in a rush too. 

8/9 years back, we were in Nanibasha in Jashore to celebrate my cousin's birthday. While we were celebrating, we suddenly heard a blasting sound. It was some days after Eid, so we initially thought it was the sound of Atasbaji. But the omen looked bad; the sound was too unusual to be a one of Atasbaji, so we all cousins rushed to the balcony of Nanibasha to see what happened. And we saw a man wounded man lying in the middle of the road beseeching for water and help. The sound we heard was actually was the sound of a hand bomb thrown at him. Before his killers threw the bombs, they dragged him out of a restaurant and stabbed him. He went to the restaurant to spend time with friends. To ensure death, the killers bombed. After they ensured, they fled the scene saying "kaj shesh." I still remember this. He lied on the road for half an hour; none came forward, all the shopkeepers shut the shutters of their shops and escaped the scene. The man who was killed was a witness to another killing. 

You know, always ongoing political rivalry. People were apprehensive of saving him. We all observed the entire thing from the balcony. My mejo mamoni wanted to go downstairs to save him. She was called crazy, and everyone resisted him since mamoni was expecting a baby. But other adults were not pregnant, they didn't showed any tendency to go forward. We, cousins, wanted to save that man. We were too young to comprehend the gravity of that situation. But as it always it is, children can't do that. The man passed away in the middle of the road. We wanted to save the man at that time. But would I want the same if the incident replicated right now? We have grown more mature. We have grown mature and 'scoundrel.' And I am sorry.