Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Poverty
is want. A man is said to be poor when he cannot procure the necessaries of
life. Poverty admits of degrees. Wealth that is beyond the dreams of a
Pakistani peasant, would be to an American millionaire, poverty so
intolerable that he would rather shoot himself than try to face the world with
it. The miseries of poverty are too may to be enumerated. When a poor man falls
ill and has to support himself and his dependants, how cheerless and hopeless
does life appear to him!
Poverty
has its origin partly in idleness and incapacity and party in adverse
circumstances in which one may gave been thrown either from birth or by the
irony of fate. True it is that a man is the architect of his own fortune. But,
is it not equally true that circumstances also make him what he is? There are
some who have never Known what a happy day is. Is it due to their own fault?
Certainly not. Born poor they did not receive a proper education and thus had
not the power or opportunity of making a headway in life. Man, with all hiss
wonderful powers, requires favorable circumstances to back him up. Once, he
gets a start in life, he can fairly journey through the difficulties of the
world, and can even help his weaker brethren.
Poverty
is, in some cases, due to one’s own faults, but very often it is entirely due
to the circumstances a man is placed in. whether it is the one or the other, a
man should never slacken his industry, nor give way to despair, while fighting
against poverty. When the weather is clear, it is easy enough to steer a ship;
but when the elements are at war and the billows rise mountain-high, it is not
easy to take charge of the helm. The path of life is not equally easy for all
men. For some, it is broad and smooth, for others it is narrow and rugged.
Glory to the man who can surmount the obstacles of poverty by cool courage and
firm determination.
Poverty in, no doubt, depressing. The poor man’s
merits are not recognized in these days, when merit has come to be measured by
the amount of money a man earns or inherits. The successful shopkeeper is given
a better welcome than the poor scholar engaged in enriching man’s stock of
knowledge in the seclusion of his study. But this ought not to depress a poor
man. Let the poor man bring forth all the best and most brilliant qualities of
his head and heart, and fearlessly walk on the path of life in spite of
obstacles, sorrows and calamities.
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