An experience to remember

It was just another day in campus, another presentation before the client for the project. We came out and Tom screamed, Damn, let’s go get drunk. And that’s how I walked into that park opposite People’s Square and saw her. The abandoned kitten who has become my baby in the last three days. I hand her to someone in a few hours who has promised me to find her a foster home. I am writing this down so that I always remember how life can get difficult, joyful and painful in very less time.

I have brought home kittens from everywhere I could find, but that was when my granny and mom were there to take care of them. This was the first time I was alone and that is what makes this experience so special. From standing in the middle of nowhere in Shanghai looking desperately for that pet shop to buy her food to getting frustrated in the middle of the night for not being able to sleep to feeding her with a disposable syringe to taking her to a vet to Ashley telling me I am finally ready to be a father, everything has happened so out of the blue that it is almost feeling unreal.

Now I will wait for her to grow up and I will consider my mission successful when I see her with her babies. Dad, that would be the best way for me to become a grandfather. When I was at the vet’s clinic, I saw a dog sheltered there. He has been paralysed by distemper and he has been kept alive by the owner for reasons only he/she knows. The doggie can move only his neck but he was so happy that I was near him and he was reaching out to me and enjoying every stroke I gave on his head. We complain about every other thing in life and there he is, not able to express his pain and the only thing he knows is to show happiness. I have to go see him again. I cannot ease his pain but I can try to give his soul some happiness when it finally leaves that broken body. It’s been a while since I have done this. Maybe life is calling me…..again.