ILLITERACY: A BIG MAN’S CURSE
No one can understand this curse even not the illiterate one for being unaware of things happening all around and their consequences. The deprivation of education and knowledge the only one who can customize who exists as a beholder. It is a choice either to gain something magnificent about being literate or educate or let your life spending as a vagabonding soul and make ourself habitual in accordance of one’s highness slavery. Yeah, completely it is a choice. I can make you explain this phrase which relates to a happening in my real-life incident. The incident happened when the covid pandemic was at its peak and every news of the planet either from TV channels or printed papers shows the sky rocking enhanced data of diseased patients and as well as the deaths.
One fine day I was just sitting on my veranda and doing some random stuff. Suddenly a worker who visited our house most frequently to do our regular household works. There is no such kind of strictness of work for her nor she was our regular servant but whenever she needs some goods or any financial help for the livelihood she visited here and asked to do something so that we pay her for her laboring to manage her households expenditures. Maa used to do call up her for each of those household works which she could not do herself. That day she visited our house and winnowing some cereals sitting a little far away beside me. I was doing my own job. Suddenly she asked me why I have been wearing this cuff-like apparatus in my mouth. Just take it out otherwise it will suffocate my breath. Although the second sentence was powered by her full caring and a sympathetic way towards me. I burst into laugher and make her convince that this cuff-like apparatus is referred to as a mask and wore it for prevention from covid viruses and also guide her to make use of these masks for herself and their loving ones too.
She keeps smiling throughout my whole conversation but at the end of the talks she abruptly responds to me with a shiny smile on her face, “ but we just don’t need to care about the mask. I could not get the disease because I had done a practice at the house yesterday.” I was in a little be washed and shattered inside myself that what could be that even possible measure that makes a person hindered from this fatal virus who has made such disaster on the planet so in a freat shock of advergence and curiosity I asked her, “ what kind of practice that is”. She replied, “ in an expression of awkwardness, “ Don’t you know I heard a declaration by people whispering in our street to play an empty tin container or any kind of metal container that makes or produces an echo full noise by dab-dab dapping all around the home. I made it follow in my whole house by tapping the empty tin can with harsh force. Now all the viruses and dreadful particles would have been flown away with wind and noise so we do not even have to be threatened by these dreadful diseases. I had done this so rigorously that the virus does not even dare to come back to my house again, therefore, we are safest and fearless about this and also we do not need to use masks and that liquid which all the prosperous people use. I was like confused at that moment should I laughed at her or should I express. The grievance for the people and society who are far away from literacy and awareness especially during such disasters meantime pandemic cause occurring in the whole globe. Illiteracy, especially for me in regards to this dreadful virus and its impact as well as precautions, symptoms, and cure of the infection caused by it. Although I explained to her and elaborated all the things related to covid as much as possible by me. But who does not know that this kind of people brought up in such a kind of ambiance that they only do whatever they think is right whether how worst consequences they would face?
