Blessed Or Deprived?

"And this", I took a dramatic break and with a confident smile on my face I turned my face to the lecture hall, "This is the example of a deprived family; they have nothing, no proper clothes, no education, eating from garbage, drinking from stagnant water, bodies are thin and pale, they have no future, no skill, they will live like this till they die and their children will live the same life as the formers of them lived, this is an example of perfectly deprived people", I took another break, and then said, "they don't have any blessing at all, and yet, still they live, can you tell me anything that they have, besides their bodies". I picked the water bottle and took a sip.

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Oh you might be wondering who I am, My name is Dr. M.D. Shah, I am an international celebrated Lecturer, My minimum lecture fee is a thousand dollar, hundreds of people spend a lot of money just to take an hour or so of my lecture, and I do a lot of them, so you can imagine how successful I am. When I'm not doing that, I manage my own firm. My wife is a doctor, Children specialist, Top one in the country. She runs her own children hospital in the capital city. I have two children, a son and a daughter; son is a civil engineer, one of the top government contractors. Daughter is a medical student.

Today my lecture was on the topic of "Extremes of Life", I've been discussing the distribution of the resources, putting light on the ups and downs, that some people are on a better position than others the goal was to tell that the those extremes exist not just in our lives, but on a much bigger scale, it's the basic thing that made the life on earth as it is today, and that its totally normal.

I ended up my lecture with an example of two families, I called them, "The Perfectly Blessed Family" and "The Perfectly Deprived Family", I gave my own family as an example of the blessed one, and then I showed, the people attending my lecture, a picture, of a man and a woman, in torn cloths, sitting with their two, weak and pale children, their faces were saggy, hairs shabby, they were sitting inside a concrete construction pipe to have shelter from the burning sun, all around them were garbage, fleas, slums could be seen in background. After I showed the class, the picture, I asked them if this "Perfectly Deprived Family" has any good thing in their life at all. My lecture was almost finished; the secret to a good lecture is the killer ending, which I was sure I delivered; this lecture was going to bring me more success, to take a moment I picked the bottle of water and took a sip.

"Sir, At least they are spending their time together", suddenly a female voice circulated across the hall, followed by pin drop silenced, I was shocked, it wasn't the first time someone said anything in the lecture or asked a question, but this time I couldn't speak back, I was totally stuck, I was looking at her and she was looking at me, I couldn't answer it, I turned around and walked out of the hall, It was the first time that I walked out of the hall like this.

And why not, for the girl who said that was my own daughter.