One tiring day after
school, I went straight home and as soon as I arrived, I opened my laptop and
grabbed something to eat. Suddenly, while I’m back reading tweets, a dark
skinned boy entered inside my room.
After
staring at him briefly, the boy asked me what I love. I said that I love
chocolates then I asked him if he has one. He smiled and said, “I only have
cocoa beans”. I replied irritably and said “I want chocolates not cocoa beans”.
“But chocolates were made from cocoa beans. My mom and dad harvest those to buy
food for me and my eight other siblings. But even how much they work hard every
day, the money they’re earning aren’t even enough for us to eat decent meal”,
he said while crying. I was shocked and didn’t know how to react. He continued talking
and said, “Since my youngest sister died and my other four siblings got sick, I
started harvesting cocoa beans too. By this job, I have learned that the beans we
harvest were made to chocolates and sold in a high price. And you know what’s
ironic? My family and I never knew what a chocolate tastes like.”
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I
opened my eyes and realized that it was just a dream. I slept in front of my
laptop while holding my favorite chocolate. To refresh my perplexed mind, I opened
the television, which is currently showing MTV cribs. I decided to watch it then
suddenly remembered the boy in my dream and thought that his state is very
different from the individuals featured in this show. These individuals maybe
one of the owners of the chocolate factories where the cocoa beans the boy
harvested were brought. Indeed, they give jobs while earning so much but the
people who really worked hard for it can’t even afford a decent meal or even
taste their own product. Chocolates feed the cravings of individuals like me
but can’t even nourish the people who made those. It made me sad while thinking
these because it is just unfair. I want to help the boy but I can’t do much. It
is like a never ending nightmare.
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