Everyday, I curse in traffic. I curse for not having it my way. For the slow drive and the vehicular tangles. I curse because I have a nagging and paranoid wife, and my boss raises hell in my 8x8 cubicle slash cell block. It was a sorry excuse for a life, I'd always say! But in one remote control spin, life changed.
I was watching
football on TV but the game was so lame that I had to flip it to another channel. Until I saw this face of a sobbing mother with her 7- year old son on her lap. It's as if the mother was begging right before my eyes so I was captured for a while. Her son was perfectly healthy, innocent, sweet and a bit naughty. Nothing seems wrong except for the flowing blood in his veins. It was tested positive for the HIV virus.
Now that's a real dilemma, I heard myself sigh. The woman was cringing in pain, almost to blow out of sanity. She doesn't know how to break the news to her 7- year old boy. Just months ago, he had a successful
kidney transplant, only to be contaminated with the vicious disease.
I felt my tears fall while I was trying my best to suck it up. I thought of my own boy, my own life. I was cursing God for every bump and holes, while on the other part of the world a mother pleads for the life of his boy. Just a little chance of hope and perhaps, a little mustered courage to finally break the news.
For an average man like me, I can take the toll. But how about an innocent child?! More so, a grieving mother in despair! If you'll come to think of it, it's easier to bear when an adult confesses of an HIV infliction. But a child? It's horribly inconceivable! If we, as parents, are having the difficult time in communicating to our kids, how could a mother possibly crush his son's hope and faith? There's no other way but the truth. But can you imagine how innocence is depraved with this booby trap disease?!
"Soft, wrinkle-free, age defying", that's the wonders of a Botox treatment. Who wouldn't want to see a mid-age woman transported back to her thirties? At least that's what flashy ads claim! But do you know that Botox also treats over-active muscles?
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