The life of a woodcutter

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Poverty is a common scenario in developing countries like us. A large majority of people in the country can’t enjoy the facilities of electric oven or gas stove. Still, in rural areas, people are using soil made stoves. Wood is used as fuel in this soil oven.

Here comes the role of a woodcutter. He supplies the required chopped wood in the village market. The poor villagers buy those from the market. They use those as fuel. Before using, they have to dry those woods in the sun. They can use the wood as fuel after proper drying. If the woods are wet, it will not be burnt and give the required heat.

A woodcutter has to buy trees to make wood. He needs to visit different places to buy big trees. After the agreement with the seller, he starts cutting trees. In the verbal agreement, it is mentioned that he will give the price of tree after selling the wood. As the woodcutter is quite poor, the tree seller agrees with the proposal.

The woodcutter cuts the tree from the roots. He doesn’t want to miss a single penny. So, he takes woods from top to bottom of a tree. Then, he starts the hard work. The wood cutter starts chopping the tree. He doesn’t possess an electric cutter. He does all his job with an axe.

In my village, I met with one hardworking woodcutter. His muscles were tight but the face was innocent. He was naturally fit. I shook hands with him. The hand was so hard. This is the hand of a woodcutter.

The woodcutter works from dawn to dusk. He takes a break in the lunchtime. The earnings of a woodcutter is not much. He can earn 500 Taka (local currency) on an average everyday. It is quite difficult to meet all the needs of a family consisting of 5-6 members.

I was asking why he works so hard for this little amount of money. I do not know any other work, he replied with smiling face. They can do hard work only. They don’t know how to use the brain as they are not literate.

Finally, he was acknowledging about his failure in life. He did not get the opportunity to study in his childhood. His parents had no ability to bear the coat of his studies. I will not do the same mistake for my kids what my parents did, he replied. I was much happy to see the confidence from a woodcutter about the studies of his kids. He doesn’t want to give his kids the same life what he is leading. He wants to ensure a safe life for them.

On the way of returning home, I was thinking about the life of a woodcutter. This is really a hard life. On the other hand, I was also thinking dark side of our villages. The lights of education is still absent here. Although the situation is improving now, we have to concentrate more on our education sector, specially for the rural areas. Then only we can make a prosperous country.

I have used my iPhone 11 Pro Max mobile phone to capture these pictures.

Thanks and stay safe always.