Cancer
is something that is eating into people at an alarming rate. Not just because
of the polluted air we breathe, the contaminated food we eat, but because of
the stress caused about by the mere manoeuvring in daily life. What hits the
heart the most is when innocent lives, that is children, are struck by it. Then
it not only makes us feel helpless, it also makes us want to ask our almighty,
why? Why the naïve souls?
Several celebrities make it a point to support causes in order to further their brand, and to make the public feel that they have a heart. Then there are the celebrities who do without fanfare and pomp, who know that they are merely a tiny component in the wheel of life, and what they do, they need to do for our own selves and not to prove a point to the world. That is what my brother Ali Zafar has been doing, and doing most silently for as long as one can imagine.
What
good the right hand does, the left hand does not have to know, is something we
are taught early on in life, and it has a far more inherent connotation than
meets the eyes. It instils in us, for starters, the very essence of respecting
human lives over our own lives, and to so do without a murmur, and do without
expectation or acknowledgment.
My
brother was at such an event, the Lahore Auto Show, to reinforce the fact that
he stands strong with those who matter, and that one does not have to ask him, because
one can see that he is there to give his unflinching support to anything at all
that needs his support.
He
spent time with the children. He drove them around. He offered them hope that
they are loved – and the very touch of a person who is filled with love can
heal more than any medicine, and that love is something my brother bestows on
everybody, and that is his love that we have all learnt to treasure.
“No
better feeling.” He said in his own words after driving them around.
Need
I say more?