‘Poverty anywhere in the world is a danger to prosperity everywhere’
Poverty can be defined as a state of life, in which a person
has a higher propensity to spend more than his earnings, so that all his basic
needs remain only partially satisfied. At the same time, we need to ponder
which is the greatest form of poverty? The simple answer to this question is
that, “the greatest form of poverty in this world is that which compels us to
incline towards the don’ts of life instead of do’s”. Thus, poverty leads us to
a path which is anarchic and troublesome. In the long run, poverty has the
capacity to cripple those faculties of mind which may lead our life in the
right direction.
At the same time, we need to think and ponder over the fact,
‘what is the greatest repercussion of poverty?’ Dependency in life on those who
have a certain state of prosperity in their life can be considered to be its
greatest repercussion. In the long run, poverty acts as the serpent, and, in
this way, a poverty-stricken person to sustain in this world in one way or the
other is compelled to eat away the resources of those who are prosperous in
life. This fact of poverty itself is a pointer towards the fact that ‘poverty
anywhere is a threat to prosperity everywhere’.
If prosperity in life leads to a state of being, of
self-contentment in life, at the same time, poverty in one’s life leads to a
certain feeling of voidness in his/her life. In this way, the state of being of
a person in poverty is just the reverse of that person who is in a state of
prosperity. The voidness created in one’s life due to poverty stings that
particular person to take the path of anti-social activities in his/ her life.
Sometimes this anarchic and anti-social activities of a poor person which are
activities done to appease his thirst and hunger of that particular person
creates due to his such activities anarchy on the society. The greatest fallout
of such anti-social activities is the creation of a diabolic society, a
diabolic society which engulfs one and all of our society irrespective of rich
or poor of the society.
Thus, the state of poverty can certainly be considered by
one and all of a society as a threat towards the path of creating an
egalitarian society. If promoting egalitarianism in the society of ours is our
goal, then the pathway of achieving this goal is only by wiping off poverty
lock, stock and barrel for we the world being. As stated above, poverty is a
serpent and the greatest trait of poverty is that it like a parasite which
destroys the tree, in the same way, poverty of a few destroys the plenty and
prosperity of the many. As state of poverty is marked by the trait of being
dependent on others due to meagre or little income of the poverty-stricken
person, so, the voidness created by poverty even if to a little extent cannot
be engulfed by the plenty and prosperity of the society as a whole.
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