(Inspired from a video which caught my mind for several weeks)
I am working here for the last 7 Years. I used to see kids grow up and leave this place. The kindness of some good hearts and the show off of some hypocrite rich people are the source of income for this orphanage. By the way, I too was an orphan but now I have a family. Sherya Kiran who came to my life from this orphanage itself. As we don’t have a second name or surname, we kept each other’s name as the second name and thus I am called Kiran Shreya. Sometimes people asks me, Why did your parents kept your mother’s name as your second name? I reply them with utmost pride that is not my mother’s name, it’s my wife’s.
Actually speaking this story is not about me, it is about a 4 year old kid who taught me a lesson. Who made me think and who made me realize who I am. We call him Pappu. A cute blithesome kid with every sort of naughtiness to make this orphanage a very noisy place. He was thrown away by his parents at the age of 2 impassively and that makes him more disappointed one than the other kids live here but he is the smartest kid of all.
A week ago he was asking me some colour chalks and I was not curious as I was already aware of his artistic skills. I bought a box of colour chalks when I went home to have my lunch. As I came back to the orphanage I found him awaiting his chalks while talking to the watchman. He chuckled and his cheek filled with blood to make it pink as his eyes caught the box in my hand.
I gave him the box and he started to run in frisson towards the large veranda haste fully. I shouted “careful”.
I saw him loosening his sandals to draw some thing on the veranda as I got in to my office. After some time, through the window I saw kids waiting for him to complete whatever he was drawing. As he completed it I saw him lying on what he drew which made me curious. I got out of my office and reached the veranda .I was imbued by that little souls creation on which he laid on. He saw me as he was laying on the large picture of a women.
He told me “I am lying on my mom’s chest, it is so warm in here”
My eyes filled with tears as I ran to the bathroom to cry again after a long time. I saw myself in him and I realized how much he was missing his parents like I did. I made a decision that evening, Shreya seconded it.
9 years later
On the thirteenth birth day of our son, we are planning to gift him a bicycle as a surprise gift who taught me giving a life to someone is the most fruitful thing a man could ever do. Today I am proud father and more than that a proud human being.
Adopt a child, I believe it is what we call “being human”.
