Friday, 5 February 2010

fill the difference


Hello friends,
          Today when I started to write, one particular topic is disturbing even though I had some other subject to put on the windows, I try to elude that and tried to go on with the actual subject but I couldn’t, so here I am just forced by my instinct to put some light to those who are unaware of this life which is silently lived by many who themselves have no control on how the live their life...
          It was a nice Friday evening, Oh ya for many it will be the last working day of the week but for me it’s like Sunday, because my off falls on Fridays and most of the Saturdays, so as usual without any particular plan I got out in the city bus, just to roam, your journey will be interesting if you don’t have any idea about your destination! My favourite spot is the roadside book vendors who sells the same contents of information on a rather cheaper paper and at an affordable rates than the Landmark’s or the Oxford’s for that matter, for me they are the blessing who gave me the chance of getting into the wonderful world of words at the cheaper cost, then there are two three other spots which I will elaborate on my later blogs, as long as you are there my friends, I won’t to hesitate to write,
      So was mentioning about the books, I had a small chat with the vendor(as many of my friend know I love talking), in the conversation my eyes were catching the attention of one particular book cover and the title on it stopped my conversation, I took the book by reading the title “out of mind, out of sight”, it had a forward written by The great APJ, without second thought I paid for that, on the way to home I had a sneak preview of the book, It was all about the women who are mentally ill and homeless, and the place where they are taken and most of them are taken back to the normal course of life and to their family where they actually belongs to, yes it’s about ‘The Banyan’, for those who already knew about the organisation, you can stop your reading because this content is intended to those who have little information about the banyan, The banyan is non profit organisation which help the homeless mentally ill women who had fallen through all safety nets and are grounded in the darkness of the society, So mental ill is not his/her fault, it’s the circumstance the person had come across,
          So friends to you my humble request is to visit the site www.thebanyan.org you will find all the information about the system, you can contribute to them any of the following methods,
          1, sponsor meal for the residents
          2, gift resident’s monthly medical expenses
          3, gift resident’s monthly nutritional needs
          4, donate clothes, provisions, medicines, furniture etc,
          5, your valuable time which is priceless,

          Let me put forward how we can save money to contribute to a gracious foundation since we are not the ambani’s, any way I will be spending some reasonable amount to buy clothes for my birthday, this time am gonna make it different by contributing that money to the inmates, there are other ways where you can also come up with some idea to pump in money for this venture, like when we friend go for a cinemas will spent a huge money for the crap, am not saying sacrifice all your fun, we can sacrifice it once in a year or half yearly, so please think about it, since you are my friends I know you also appreciate the same way I felt,
          Together we can make the difference, but what I say is together we can fill the difference, at least to help in filling the gap between the women, who are in a different world to the one in the normal world, so it’s just the ending of my blog but the beginning of the venture how we friends can make the difference, by referring to friends friend or whoever is willing to listen, multiply it to the people you know and am confident that it will add values to subtract the pains in the life of your fellow being...
          Let me put full stop for a fresh beginning by lending the following excerpt,
“Volunteers are not paid, not because they are useless but because they are priceless”   

love   
Josh

6 comments:

shree said...

"add values to subtract pains" .....really touching. In one of Sugathakumari's poems, she speaks about a man who is forced to stay in the mental asylum, even after he was fully cured, because he was not acceptable at home. The poet asks him where he will go, now that he is all right, he says that he will go home, his mother is there(' enikku ente ammayundu') In fact there was none.
You r not only committing yourself for a noble cause, but also give us hints about how to make the needed money!!GREAT!!!!
orkut does really something good.
If interested, you can also go thro my blog"shreyas-shreeblogspot.com"

josh said...

thanks.. for ur valuable appreciation.. even the the unrest of mind is treated and cured the family of the patient r not willing to take them bac.. and i will be participating for the sucess of the banyan .. i dont knw why i took this decision.. i am deeply disturbed by the faith (bad) of the inmates..

Geogie said...

Thats just an awesome move.. like to know more abt this Banyan. so let me go explorer.. Good that you took ths topic for ur blog... may GOD bless u :)

josh said...

thanks.. g

Intruder SG said...

“Volunteers are not paid, not because they are useless but because they are priceless”

really touching hope dat u hve found a nice place 2 share ur thoughts Keep Rocking and attain the heights :-)

josh said...

thanks dear frnd.. u gav me the wonderful oppurtunity to blog.. u rock..

to my frns n 2 that spl frn!

this blog i had started just because a friend who turned the light on to the blogging.... a friend whom i had not yet met but looking forward to meet... a friend whom i know only because of facebook and gtalks... its dedicated to him.. shine gopinadh...also known as shine!! thanks for introducing to the blogging world.. ya as you say there is no thanks and sorry among friend's (rule 1)...