Urban World February 2015 | Page 14

What is life for us? Buying an Apple Air pad 2 and strolling in Mercedes? Is that life at all or are we just living because we have shower of money almost every day? But have we ever thought of what life means to other people? Is life what we think it is? For some people, life is struggling hard to run his family, to survive from the arrogance of other rich people and to manage a day's meal. For some people, maybe just living is life.

Almost every day, we see thousands of people walking by the street. Each person has a different story to share. But of course, we never have time to listen. However, if we even listen the story, we just hear them talking, not hear what they say. But shouldn't it be a reality check for us; a chance to be grateful for the life that we have? It should be, but our generation is too busy to ponder over their own relationship problems. It's not bad to roll in expensive cars or having relationship problems, all I am trying to put on the table is that - we have much more to see than what meets the eye and so today we bring forth a story of a man whose life runs on something so simple and yet he is trying to move forward.

While strolling down road 11/2 in Mirpur 10, we noticed a seller who sells colorful happiness, balloons. A middle aged man, Mr. Mohammad Joshimuddin, is working to feed his family of four. For him - life is being happy with his family. He is new in this business, and when he was asked about the profits of the

Interview taken by Umme Tasmia

Photography by Toersa Samiha

Article by Raisa Rahman