As I started to grow up, I have been more aware of the
society and the surrounding that I am living in. And before that I was
merely a child not giving a heed to what is happening to people’s humanity. But
these days, since it is becoming more and rarer in human race- I was caught up
with an incident.
I was coming
back from my university and noticed that a van of police was parked beside the
road to my house. And the police were busy checking people. Now this was a
common scene now-a-days. I ignored the fact and continued toward my house with
a friend of mine. A little later, I heard noises behind me. When I looked back
I saw a man running and a policeman chasing him with a black bag in his hand. The
man looked healthy and middle-aged belonging from a middle class family. The
police was yelling to catch him but no one proceeded really until an old man
tried to. But the running man was pleading not to catch him. I could hear him
clearly saying, “No please, don’t catch me. Please.” My mind calculated fast
enough, visualizing the man as a wrong doer and since the police was chasing
him- my first reaction was to have him stopped. I guess my friend was also
having similar thoughts. He asked me whether he should stop him or not.
I said, yes. And he did.
We didn’t wait until the police arrested him and took
him toward the van and walked toward my house. And all my mind was doing was
replaying the whole scene again and again. The way he was running and pleading
not to catch him, his face after my friend stopped him. And all I could feel
was my decision being wrong.
We are well aware of the little reputation the police
have in our society, some action that they pull against civil rights- they are
not completely honest. What if the running man was innocent and he ran because
he got scared that he couldn’t afford to pay the police the bribe that they
might demand, and I took him as a wrong doer and got him caught. What if he is
in jail and getting beaten up by police because he refused to sign the papers
of false allegations? What if his family can’t afford his bail money? Did I
ruin his future, his home and his family life? He must have kids waiting for
him at home.
But why would he run if he was not a wrong doer? My
point being made, he wouldn’t be in this position if he weren’t any wrong doer.
But he must have been helpless and chose this path because he had to look after
his wife and children and his old mother. Or perhaps marry his sister well off.
My point being made is that he did wrong to lead a better life. Why was he
forced to choose this path? Is it his lack of humanity or the lack of proper citizen
facilities? In some way or the other someone’s humanity surely is limp. Either
it is of a man in duty or of governed citizens.
And the spot I am standing at, I am not sure what I
did was right or wrong or if it will haunt me when I wake up in every tomorrow,
how my humanity will take this. But I surely know that it won’t give me any
peace of mind.
