Hey! We have come a long way but I still feel I haven’t said enough! Words just tumble out accompanied by feelings! Rimsha Bibi is a girl. She lives with her mother and father as well as her siblings (three brothers and two sisters). Zareena Bibi, her mother works as a housewife while Gulshare Ahmed, her father is an occasional worker. She lives in an area in Muzaffarabad in Azad, Kashmir (you will see that this is the area where Children First are for now mostly focused on). Rimsha Bibi has aspirations of becoming a great cook and, despite her circumstances, is a very glad, day dreamy girl with a committed mission to try and realize her wish. She may be weak physically due to the nutrition that she is not getting but in the head, she may be stronger than than the toughest people out there. It is really emotional to think that even when you are in this state, you have the great power on how to deal with it and even though you may have every bit of the right to cry and not at all be pleased by almost everything, it takes a really strong heart to keep going in some way, it takes a really strong mind.
Rimsha Bibi has, like other kids who look at the slightly happier side, a jubilant smile. What would a path to her amazing cooking life look like, what would she do in that path? The goal would be to get a good foothold in life and try your best not to slip. I pray that she somehow finds a gap in the great circle of fire she is surrounded by and maybe, with the right timing and circumstances, flee. I wonder what a life like mine may feel and look like to her...the reasonable answer would be: Wonderful! Amazing! Out of her world! But you never truly know what it may feel like/look like to someone like that without actually being that someone. There are generations in this world but somehow each one existing now can be split into different groups: the side living in great poverty or in places where war and the side living in quite tranquil situations and some even living a wealthy life, out of the grasping flames from the fire. These sides are very different as we can already guess and the side where they live in poorer conditions is usually the side that knows better the pure version of gratefulness and happiness.
I will just put as an example my generation. Gen Z. We (the side who live stable lives) tend to get caught up in many things involving social media, gossip, bullying and many other things regarding social interaction. There are also others from this side of the spectrum who have struggles such as which outfit to wear for an occasion or which course to attend. We (generally speaking) are prone to have identity crises and other dilemmas as well as conundrums that are very, very different to the struggles that our same generation faces in another part of the world. These starving kids do not have time to have these crises. They will just have to skip the part of being the good old, typical teenager and just grow up as soon as possible because their family needs money to keep going. I just hope that if some people, in some way got into or nearer the more stable side, that they do not ever lose the one true gold that they had before the journey. The things that were inside themselves.
I hope that Rimsha Bibi will keep that forever, because a person without that powerful key may be one of the weakest. She is a strong, determined girl and all she needs is to be alive to live this strict life and to just be able to live in acceptable, good conditions should not, in whatever universe, be a luxury but a very basic right.
Thank you guys! Have a splendid rest of the day/evening!!!
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