Weekends Special Time - 'Saara'

Big round shining eyes, a cute smile, scattered bangs and her squeals accompanied with clapping will catch your attention once you enter her zone. Basically she rules that home – her zone.

Saara, my friend’s a year and half kid, always full of energy and ready to ‘buui’. Buui can be translated as outing/ short trips to adults.

Usually we (my husband and me) spend weekend evenings together but then all shares her playtime. Her parents and us fight to get her attention, which is mostly won by her dad L. But recently I earned an evening with her, happy enough to say that! When its 7 pm Saturday Saara-Hour begins.

First rearrange her playground a.k.a their bedroom space or living room filled with soft toys, books, and her tech gadgets. Her tech gadgets include a 10-inch laptop and mobile. OMG! Techie-girl! Cell phone can be ignored but she needs that laptop more than anyone else. Its when little lady demands her relatives to be online @ skype.

Her non-stop laughter performance will make you forget time and play with her. At times like a teen girl she would comment at your look and bag – ‘bhala’ (nice). We friends wait to hear that bhala word from her even more than our spouse.

Be it her new language words or buui or bhala….her laptop demands, and not to forget she is a sheila-fan (alas for munni). She controls our weekend evenings. Saara has the power to diminish work-life worries almost to lose its existence.

Aha!! This baby is apple of our eyes.

Charity or Scam

Multiple knocks at the door, at times repeated doorbells makes you run marathon. Almost every first week of each month I go through them. Those days the visitors are not family or friends of mine, neither are salesperson urging to buy their products. They are small children aged around 8-18 years, as groups or individuals claiming being deaf and dumb students. They expect financial help from us. Their eyes will make your heart bleed and make you feel sympathetic towards them. At times you might even be kind enough to do that charity.

But is this really a charity/donation and not any scam? The donor has almost no proof to believe that this kid is poor and desperately need your help. Kids usually display a printed letter where it is mentioned that they are poor, deaf and dumb seeking help undersigned by some name quoted as principal of XYZ school.

As a donor (or now victim) shall I go with the choice to contribute without any receipt or bang the door back? Would I qualify as a human if I send them off? If it is a fraud one my honest feelings are crushed.

Finally I decide to show them cold shoulder but still hurt self. But most of the times their eyes overshadow my doubts and make me act as their wish. Anyways I might not be bright enough to any RCA (root cause analysis/ deep analysis) for self-satisfaction but I do contribute my share of humanitarian help to needful every year in my way, with my budget.

So, conclusion even if I feel sorry when I refuse them, still it wonders me what they really are. Are those pitiful faces exploited? Does any school really send its student to collect money for school fees, even when they right to education?



P.S: Its only my view, no hard feelings!