BE GRATEFUL

The incident I am going to share definitely did change me…it made me see things in a different way.

I read this article few years ago. The article is about a reporter and his experience in an orphanage.

Once a reporter went to cover an article about an orphanage, the things that happen in an orphanage, how people take care of those kids who had nobody else to take care, about their health etc etc.

The reporter after covering up all this was going towards the office where he finds an open door and there are hundreds of cradles in it, not empty cradles but there were babies in it.

The reporter being a new dad and being so used to his baby's tantrums and cries as a 5 month old got curious as to how the babies are so silent. He suddenly got suspicious that maybe the orphanage drugs the babies to keep them silent. He found a lady filling milk into the feeding bottles and so he spoke with her.
I tried to write it in the form of conversation here for giving out the proper essence of the whole point.

Reporter: Excuse me, sorry to disturb you but I am curious to know as to how the babies are so silent? Not one baby is crying. What do you mix in their milk?

Care taker: We don't mix anything sir. Actually when the babies come here at first they keep on crying continuously, there are only few of us and we cannot go and soothe every baby when they start crying, so what happens is the baby after crying continuously for hours realises itself that nobody will come to soothe it and so stops crying after a week. It is hard sir to see the babies crying but we are helpless. I feel so bad for the babies if only their parents knew about this, they wouldn't have orphaned them.

Tears started flowing. He went home and hugged his baby tight. He realised how his heart would bleed if he finds his baby crying and there at the orphanage the kids don't cry because they had no one to pet them, pamper them and soothe them. Neither did they have anyone to rock them to sleep by singing a lullaby.

When I read this article, I couldn't eat or sleep for days. I decided then and there that if at all I will have kids sometime in my life I am going to love them so much that they shouldn't feel that they are left out in this world.
Maybe the babies realise this and kill that part of themselves and learn to survive without their parents…..as orphans!

Isn't this how the personality of a person shapes?

Just imagining about those poor souls and their plight or to better say their understanding in that teeny age about the fact that there is no use of crying as there would be no one to feel bad for them…ufffff…that is something.. I can't digest the fact even now

(Not everyone purposefully abandon their babies, I know that..but if possible one can try to prevent it. Hats off to all the orphanages around the world to give out their selfless service and time to take care of them….it is because of people like you all that there is still humanity here and there).