WILL YOU LIKE TO GO SCHOOL?

WILL YOU LIKE TO GO SCHOOL?

Very cute boy, who was eight years old , was  polishing shoes sitting on the road side - I asked him. He looked at me , and spoke in a trembling tone.
"No Uncle , I don’t like to go school"
I was astonished to listen it , that why his answer was so bitter.

There  were no signs of childhood on his face .

 I have never seen a maturity of a boy in this age  , which I experienced on his face.  I made my mind to know the reason , behinde the “NO:

I was dreaming that , these hands are not for polishing the boots. These hands are to hold the pen and paper.
"Why my Son, why don’t you like to go school? “
He listened to me and started running brush like a machine - I repeatedly questioned - so he started to cry.
"Uncle my Dad died one month ago - my mom is sick, she needs medicine daily, doctor says  if she will not get medicine,  she will die . I need medicine for mother not books for me.”

He was saying all that without stopping the brush.

“ At the evening , what I get , I go to buy medicine , remaining some breads for my little sister .and mother. If I will go school , It will kill my mother and my sister”

I was feeling guilty to listen all. Was looking around to calculate the luxuary cars running on the roads. No body has the time to ask such orphans , such widows.
Is it not the resposibility of our society? I asked many questions to myself and was ashamed to call myself civilized.
AZAD HASHMI