Every time, I have to address a crowd. I am confused, nervous and sad. Why sad? In my head there are these thoughts...of how will i address them and why should i address them like this and why is that no one questions my wrong statements.
I am thinking about the opening lines...
"My brothers and sisters..." No does not seem right...Let’s take it from the top... "Dear Men and Women..." No, even worse... “Dear Ladies and Gentlemen..."- wait am i right?
What is that I am missing? Why is it that I don’t feel right about this...
Dear People of this world... Ya, I got it correct this time.
And these lines, take me to a place where I feel extremely sad and sacred. As if I am in a holy place but where I do not see holy people , I see dead bodies, bleeding wounds and crying children. So, I am sad too. I am unable to ignore their cries but I am too weak to protect them from the misery ahead of them. I am unable to comfort them, because the cause of their pain is not physical. Their pain, which some men and women can see and feel, resides in their heart.
I am trying to reach there but there are too many barriers. I need to break them and I am too weak to do such a big, important and obvious task.
We call these people - eunuchs, hijras, human hermaphodites etc.
People, we the people often forget that a eunuch is also a part of we, the human life form.
Men , Women and eunuch ...
I feel extremely correct and a sense of righteousness settles in me, when I say this. I feel so holy as if I am carrying a torch in the darkness of ignorance and abandonment. But to my surprise, I am not alone. There are several others who believe in providing the rights of eunuchs, who believe that eunuchs are humans too and deserve to be treated like one. But I am not sure, if they are ready to help yet. Everyone fears the unknown and we do not know how the world will react, when we stand and talk about a very critical, controversial issue. But, do we let the fear stand in the way of something that is so right?
Think about this!!!
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There are two ways to look at things. For e.g. a glass having some water is either a glass half full or galss half empty.
So why are we unanimously looking at the matter of eunuchs as a glass half empty. What happened to the other part of the glass that is half full.
Its not a new problem, Its age old now.
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Although in the hindu(India) culture, we are suppose to pay our respects to them. And during the protection of queens and princesses, these people were preferred over men. Somehow, over the years,though we were supposed to be evolving, i guess that process stopped once we became homosapanies from homoerectus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch
But we, homosapiens, the human forgot to behave as human.
We became ignorant.
The condition/Abnormality with which they are born is not what they asked for. (add)
If a girl is sitting and crying on the road, the people passing by will give a glance, some will ask if she needs any help and some might get the police for help.
But if a eunach is crying on the road, the world will turn its back on them.(add)
I am too weak to stand up and move a rock by myself, I need help and i have only my voice, my words to win each one of you over.
Like any other issue, this has to be looked at objectively.
1. Getting to understand them: I am trying to contact eunachs through social networking sites. We need to understand them, their emotional needs, sexual needs, trauma that they went through and treatments that they tried.
2.Awareness: We need to make people aware about the current unfair situation regarding eunachs.
3. Changing Polices: We need to have a section for eunachs like we have Male/Female/Eunachs.
4. Acceptance : This is the most important part of the process/revolution. Even if we have all the rules and regulations for them, we need people to accept them.
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