"Some things cost more than you think"

Yeah! Yeah! You'll say she always talks abt changes, KRAANTI, revolution... She asks us to get up, look around, help and blah blah... Ab jab reputation kharaab ho hi gayi.. toh fursat se kharaab kar leti hun :) Last nite while surfing thru channels, I came across a beautiful yet weird video on VH1. It is by THE KILLERS and the song is Good night,Travel Well and in case you wanna watch it, here is the link : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoTBclI22Dk I thought it is yet another love-song... but then it SHOCKED me so much that I kept thinking to myself when I was out for my evening walk" WHY?? WHY do people do this to others?"The message at the end says "Some things cost more than you think" and that is so utterly true. Apni Indian society mein, a gal talking abt prostitution and taking their cause is never encouraged. I mean, we all know, it is a taboo in our households. But, being me or to make it sound more apt, being the weird me, I always talk abt it as and when I feel. Coz this is something that has been bothering me, I had no option but to talk it out here. Yet again, I am not going to get in a discussion as to is prostitution justified?? Reason being, if you ask me, I wud never want it to exist coz pata nahi kyun, but somewhere I feel it is the last thing a woman would want to indulge in and for that matter even a man... But then as per studies almost more than 60% women are forced into prostitution much against their will and this video depicts the story of one such woman. Having studied in an engg college, we always heard how a bunch of boys staying outside hostels had sex with prostitutes...some gals were as young as 15 yr old, I wanted to puke when I heard that. In Hyderabad, I was too scared to move out after 9 coz some of the bus-stops are branded as the business areas for them, if by chance your auto takes you from Necklace Road side, you may witness many of them and worst is when we saw a woman (ofcourse she was a call gal) being abused by some politicians kids(laal-batti gaadi thi) on necklace road at arnd 9 pm when we were coming back frm a movie. As always, I tried to shout out but my friend said "Harshita, leave it.Dont forget you are a gal too, Chalo ghar chalo "Hmmm... yahin aake saara maamla thap... It was a very disturbing night for me... cud not sleep,par fir kya hua, kuch nahi.. I carried on with my routine... and once in a while kept wondering, kya hota hoga unn logon ka... :( :( I still think abt the same thing abhi bhi...Seriously, koi kuch bhi kahey... I feel really bad for them... When I was working for AIDS awareness 4yrs back, I came across women, who wud say "Madam, humko sikhaaney ka koi faayda nahi, unko bolo jo humse miltey hain"... Well said... and then we took a session for sweepers,guards, peons, office boys and they shamelessly confessed how they are married and they still visit brothels and they wud never follow protection coz all they seek is pleasure. Hmm... khair... Ab I am not going to judge you or ask you whether you have ever been involved with someone like that... but I appreciate MTV, UNICEF and VH1 for promoting the cause of child-trafficking and prostitution. Kehtey hain naa, rabb sab dekhta hain... Jo jiskey saath jaisa karta hain, waisa milta hain usey... I pray that people get some sense in their head who force kids and women into it and they stop this exploitation that they do in the name of pleasure :( And yet again, I wud say, if you can save someone from this vicious circle of life, save them.... Is-sey achcha kisi ke liye kuch nahi kar saktey yaar... chalo ji... miltey hain.. ciao!!