Thursday, May 29, 2014

That child's face

It's 3 AM. Woke up from a dream with a little girl's face haunting me. Usually my dreams are all over the place with no sense, no connection from one scene to the other (editor of dreams will not get a job anywhere). I don't even bother trying to remember. But this one made me get out of my bed and write this post as it wouldn't let me sleep. 

I was in a room with couple of random people from my life and 2 more intruders.  While these intruders are checking something, I slowly go into the next room, wake up my brother and ask him to call 911. I then slowly slip back into the room and close the door pretending as if nothing happened.  Then this small girl character appears who is about 8-9 yrs old. She is very shabbily dressed looking like she hasn't showered in weeks. She opens the door and walks into the other room. Afraid that the intruders will notice my brother calling 911, I quickly pull her in and close the door. She does this again and walks little bit further into the room. I once again hurriedly get her and close the door.  But the 3rd time she goes further to a shelf and gets a piece of paper with her.  I quickly pull her back into the room and ask her not to go into that room again.  She then shows me that paper. It has some numbers with flowers etc.  Then someone tells me that is the paper she learnt multiplications using flowers etc and she didn't want to lose it. 

That little girl's face is haunting me - her zeal to learn, the way she tried to save that piece of paper. 

I wonder how many kids are out there in this world waiting to learn more. If only we all can adopt a child, a school and provide them this basic necessity in life. 

That child's face is chipped in my brain now.