THE FUTURE IN A BASKET
“Every
child comes with the message,
that
God is not yet discouraged of man.”
Rabindranath
Tagore
My
wife and I have just returned after visiting Hardeep’s house. Hardeep is a
friend of ours, who got married quite late in life. After marriage, she moved
to Gurgaon where her hubby had been living. Presently, she is in Mumbai for a
few weeks with her three-month-old baby-girl. So, my wife and I wanted to see both,
the baby and the mother…
The baby was fast
asleep, with her tender hands raised the way the smiling/ laughing Buddha did. In fact, in her sleep, the baby
was smiling!
For a while, I
stood there mesmerized, reflecting over what Lish McBride had said:
“You
know what the great thing about babies is?
They
are like the bundles of hope… Like the future in a basket.”
How I wished the
baby in this basket remained a baby in the future, too!
If alone the
wishes were horses!!!
You and I have
been once babies like this little bundle of joy is… We, too, had slept,
blissfully, like the little Buddhas and smiled in our sleep… We, too, were called
‘the future in a basket.”
And, now?
That future is
here…
I really think,
we become harsh and hardened as we grow up… Innocence and purity get lost –
rather, get robbed… Yes, all in the name of growing up…
What a loss!
What a tragedy!
“May she shine…
May God guard her,” I had left a small note in the cradle…
But, I had only
wished in my heart, “May she, always, retain her innocence and purity.”
“Like stars are
to the sky, so are children to the world,” said Chinonya J. Chidolue… They
deserve to shine.”
“Keep looking son (baby) , keep looking," Mafasa had urged Simba...
GERALD D’CUNHA
Pic.: 1. Hardeep Kaur/Amarjit Singh Saini 2. pixabay
Video: Super Scenes
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