A Message Not Send

 I wanted to send this message after watching a WhatsApp update. 

Hi good morning --------'s mother... My hearty wishes to ---------🎊

It was a noble thing to serve food to the orphanage's children on her birthday. I praise your kindness. But it also made me think of a video I saw long ago. The person in the video narrated an incident when he celebrated his child's birthday at an orphanage. That made him think about how the kids there feel about the celebrations. When enquired the sister there told him that though the smaller kids are happy to attend such celebrations the older ones show inhibition.

Visits to orphanages will help our kids to know their blessings. But witnessing a happy family celebrating their kid's birthday reminds the children there of what they miss in their lives. 

Even though our intentions are pure, to teach our children what they have by reminding another child of what he/she doesn't have is not what we want. I hope you understand.

But I did not send it.

Catching up with the inner child

    It has been that kind of a journey that I took to Chennai, to meet a friend where I happened to catch up with the inner child in me. 

    It is with friends one can be closer to oneself when taking multiple roles in daily
life. A cosy stay with a friend and her companion dog who became mine too over the stay. Rides, photo sessions, cooking, shopping, drinking, dancing, playing in the beach, dressing up sexy and sometimes ridiculous.

          

     Long solo walks in an unseen city, the accidental discovery of an unexpected beach, random friendships at the fish market, on public transport, and attempts to speak the local language.

    Being my own person and caretaker let me feel like an adult, a tourist, a woman, a girl and a child all through those days. Let me feel that there is more in me than I have ever discovered.