...of all the people or rather to put it in a technically correct way , target groups i have worked with in this short span the most interesting are the injecting drug users and also the most humble,docile and kind heatred...what i hate the most is the stigma associated and also the way they have been sidelined from the society as if they were these uncouth,savages from some other planet..what i dont understnd is why cant we try and understnd them...talk to them..we should hate the drug habit and not the drug user..does taking drug makes one a bad person and not stealing money out of the PM s tsunami fund which would have saved scores of lives?? who are these drug users harming but selves..what support systems have we put for them?? we run away from them, have ostricised them from the society.. and i find it extremely disheartening..
and here we can also talk about other such socially rejected groups like the sex workers, street children and many more...
This entire debate about whts good and whats bad comes to my mind..who decides what is good and also for whom and in which context...there can be no universal definitions for good,bad,wicked,fair...these are extremely relative terms varyting across time and space...
what is needed is to open our minds and be receptive...a little change in perspectives and to think out of the stereotype..what has to be stopped is water tight compartmentalisation of issues..of people..of cultures..of norms...
i personally believe that all human beings are inherently good...but then we all have a bit of Mr.Hyde within us and the constant battle with Dr.Jekyll is ever raging..and the claim for the upper hand remains...
So..as i was saying..i have ample respect for injecting drug users...because we have to look beyond just their drug habits..they are human beings..with emotions....and one should learn to respect them for whoo they are
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