the hidden enemies

Today, as I went home after finished my day I rode a bus and sat in the back. First, I didn't notice that beside me sat a little girl with shabby clothes and her sister. Yes, they are street kids that probably had performed their 'show' in order to get some nickles in that bus. I looked at them. The younger sister is crying because her sister said something cruel and pinched her sometimes. I want to cheer up the little one and give something to them to stopped the quarrell, but they are so serious that I didn't dare to interupt them.

As I silently stared at them, I noticed that the older girl is kinda cruel to her sister. I knew that she might be hard and tough and not leting her sister to become spoiled because of her environment. Her tough and rude environment had turned her to became a tough and unspoiled little girl, while many little girls in her age probably still playing freely and can be spoiled to their parents. Deep inside my heart, I cried for this unjust condition. I knew that this child and her sister had rights to act like their friends in the same age. To freely play and live their life.

But again my mind think of their friends that are more lucky. I think of my students that I teach everyday. They had chances to have education, but some of them live as they didn't appreciate the chances that they have. Many people in this world lucky enough to have the life that aren't so hard and tough as these girls' life, but they didn't appreciate it. They just going around like there is no future for them, though there are so many chances that they had.

I cried for these girls. But I got angry too because the devil had worked so hard to destroy the life of many people that are bound by drugs, pornography, diseases, and poverty. It may sounds cliche, but I knew that there are the hidden enemies that disguise in poverty, drugs, pornography and diseases. And I begin to questioning myself again:

"What are you doing to stop them?"

and again :

"Will you let GOD to use your vision to destroy them?
Or you just want all the comfort only for urself?"

And I choose to let go my comfort and do something to stop them.

Little deeds like teaching well to get rid of poverty in the mind of my students.