Your eyes scan the house, something is just not quite right. Your room is the size of a low cost house, you have four rooms not inclusive of the guest's, all with attach. Your car porch parks 5 cars and there is a servant quarter. The kitchen is Italian make, yet you think "what is it that is you need?" Suddenly it hits you....you need a better address!!
You thought you heard some noise while you turned a corner. Your wife thinks you are imagining things. You are kinda sure of it. You think maybe you need to send it in for servicing. On second thought, you think maybe it's time to get a new car, after all this one is 18 months old. You deserve it! The new C-class would be nice if not for a 14 months waiting list!
What will the Gucci clutch, Cartier ring and Bvlgari watch mean to you if you finally got a son after nine years of trying and waiting. True, you have 3 kids; fifteen, twelve and nine, beautiful but they are all girls. And finally your husband has somebody to carry his surname. He is so small, fragile and precious, there is no way you are going to let the maid take care of him. Your husband and you decided that your sister would be the best person to babysit. After four blissful years, your son is now almost a man. You drop him at your sister's place as usual before going to work. You bid him goodbye not knowing it will be for good. You wish you had cast a longer look at him, hug him a little tighter if you knew he would run out of the house to greet his cousin only to be met by a oncoming school bus, dying on the spot.
What would a better address mean to you if your husband was dying of cancer in his forties. His dying wish was to have his ashes scattered in the Ganges river. A year later you have finally come to terms with his death. You and your family decided to go to India to fulfill your husband"s final wish. Your entourage includes yourself, your fifteen year old son, twelve year old daughter, your uncle and a few other relatives. You all say your prayers while the ashes are being scattered. You all were walking back to the hotel after the ceremony and a bus comes and kills your fifteen old son. What will anything mean after that!
What will a Mercedes Benz mean to you if you reversed your car and killed your 5 year old child. Your family forgives you but you cannot never forgive yourself. Guilt then becomes a disease that doesn't kill but consume you day and night, rotting you from the inside.
Life is such.....these are all true stories. Tragic it may be but life goes on. The first lady went on with life, the husband did not speak to her sister for a while. They seek comfort in each other and their three beautiful daughters. One fine day 5 years later, she had a call from a lady who used to work as their maid. There is a child she has been babysitting and the mom has not come visit for 6 months. She is about to give the child up to the police, UNLESS the family want the boy. So husband and wife went to see the child in an Indonesian squatter neighbourhood, and by evening they had a son again.
Sometimes things happen and you ask why, why me?? Well it is not just you.
you never know what's gonna hit you until it does. no one can ever be prepared for something like that... just need the strength to get back up again... sometimes, that's harder than just killing yourself. but the strong one gets stronger. like my mum says, god likes to make it harder for the ones he loves more. I'd like to believe that.
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