It Shouldn't be normal...

It’s scary how anything we do, if experienced enough times, could become just another episode on the forever-cycling story of life. To me, the very fact that an ER doctor or an OBGYN can call death and birth "normal," shows us we must announce in response, “it shouldn't be.” it should be as if every moment we witness a calamity, a rocket, a rape, a suicide, or any act of discrimination, that we cry out and remind our fellow “it should not be normal.” We must only state this one truth, because with it, the spell is broken, and justice will only grow uneasy once we all call out…

#ItShouldn’tBeNormal.

 It shouldn’t be normal that there were 24,923 reported cases of rape in India in 2012. (National Crimes Record Bureau, 2012).

It shouldn’t be normal that women, children and infants (kidnapped, purchased or orphaned) are objectified and under the viscous trafficking machine, and not seen as a tree with potential for fruits, but as tool to produce the most profit (WSJ, 2012).  

         

It shouldn’t be normal that 269.3 million people in India alone live below the poverty line with nothing to own but the clothes on their back, and the change in their pocket (Planning Commission, 2012).

It shouldn’t be normal that there are over 12,000,000 people living in the slums of Mumbai, where a child dies every day (World Bank, 2006).

It shouldn’t be normal that 626 million people use the bathroom in public; one can observe literally miles of human feces along the road. (UNICEF, 2008).

It shouldn’t be normal that 78,000,000 people go to sleep without shelter, and are often exposed to unsafe, and unsanitary conditions (slumdogs.org, 2011).

It shouldn’t be normal that the cashier points to the street when asking him if he has a garbage.

It shouldn’t be, but it is.