Tuesday, April 8, 2008

It’s about finding children for families or families for children?

Buddha said: When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky. Mashallah!

When I was sitting at the Bangalore airport, two months back on my way home, I met a doctor, little older than daddy. A devotee of Satya Saibaba and a surgeon ( can’t remember exactly). My flight was delayed, so was his to Mumbai. We were generally talking of make-no-sense topics; life, how-to-deal-with-a-cranky-mom, getting wiser at a higher cost, faith etc. But this man made them interesting to me.

The NRI doctor and his Dutch wife have adopted a son, may be almost 30 years back from a place in North India (let me not exactly remember the name). Later, when the son visited his birth place, he became emotional… Surely his doctor father had the perfect way to describe it. It's not blood, it's belief.

Be not, faint of heart, and grieve not:
for you are bound to rise high
if you open your heart to believe!
The Quran.

The morning after I reached home, I was trying to save my cheeks from kisses! When I couldn’t escape those few, I tried recovering my skin with salt-water! Surprisingly, another aunt of mine was worried about something else than k(p)issing me.

Reason: The Orphanage (Just opposite our old residence) has denied giving her friend the baby they chose earlier. Shucks! Well not this, even disgusting was, apparently… they offered them a different baby who was mal-nourished. “Sister superior is such a b*****, she thinks my friend is a fool? She exactly remembers the baby, her husband too,” told my aunt. After all they are buying ‘something’… why not settling for perfection?

Just when I was trying to understand "Emotion" as the most worthless of English dictionary. I knew "perfection" was picking up. Who can laugh at the sky?

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