Those stays in cold areas have felt arriving a year season winter with the straws of grain filled with liquid rotting into soil following the paddy crops harvest from jhum is over. A gentle breeze falls on the earth and dewdrops began to fall on cool surface at night. This revisiting festival season brings along cold dry equally to every rich and poor, young and old.
We are saddened by the shortening days, climb into bed earlier and sleepless night if the bed’s affording warmth is thin and resent waking up soon when the morning light grows deem.The orphans of bereaved parents, members of lost breadwinner who might have despaired are all to endure through this cold chilly days and night. The fragile older persons in their nearing death, and the deprived and poverty stricken families are no exception to face this cold bitten winter. Inaccessibility of resources and poor financial makes some people neglect to care the feeling of cold. There are unfortunate who sleep on a mat, barely, or on shabby cloth to rest through the whole winter night solstice. For some people the season would be an additional economic burden. To think of this gives mix emotions and distressful.
Markets gonna loom with different clothes; well designed dresses, garments, thicker woolens and footwears that are not affordable by all. The haves and haves-not are portrayed reflecting our sadden society of inequality.
As winter approaches, breaks festive mood, a well-to-do can afford whatever material comfort a season being demand. Fashion lovers gonna throng at the markets, gather at the shopping hub carrying containing obese wallet to use on latest fashion of their choice. They gonna use thousands on furs to cope with cold. The clothes of the children of rich family are magnificent having warmer of their wear the parents accessed to them. The beds of the well-off family are glorious and comfortable. The sad fact is that the deprived children may see to it, feel desire to own which may lead to pressure on parents creating frustration to the family.
Being festive season there will be different social gatherings, organize different social activities, different programmes and services where all rich and poor to attend. The rich shall wear their best clothes they have afforded but the poor especially children and young seeing their friends, may feel down and they may withdrawal socially, stop activities with their friends and no longer enjoy things that used to be fun. It’s gonna lose fascinate.
We don’t have setup of social categorized that characterizes riches who is to help needy unless he comes with his own charity. However, if you could have owned three things of warmth, take yourself two and give it one, and more, if more you have blessed to a needy people around you. There are people who longs for a piece of cloth to wrap/cover up their body. The coming up of this old guest of season be a warmed and shared winter!
Bausha Pauwung Buchem
Nyengching, Longleng
(Postal Address: Above GPS Nyengching, Longleng-798625, Nagaland.
