Despite being really sleepy and tired, I find that if I never had this blogged, I would never be sleeping properly. This story that my lecturer shared with us yesterday morning turns out to be quite ‘disturbing’ and yet, very touching at the same time.
It’s about a newly wed couple (both Malaysian), going on a short honeymoon at Bangkok and staying in a 5 star hotel. One morning somewhere during their honeymoon after a breakfast in the hotel, the wife told the husband to go back to their room first as she had forgotten something in the cafeteria. Husband retreated to the room and waits for the wife for half an hour, one hour and he finally goes back down to look for her. Nobody seen her or notices her or anything weird. It was like she disappear into the thin air. He started searching for her everywhere but in the end, she is nowhere to be found.
To cut the story short, after 5 to 6 years later, the man, went back to Bangkok on a business trip. He went through the market and passes by some ‘steel cage’ where disabled beggars were placed inside. Disabled means that they have no limbs, either hands or legs or both and worse scenario, even the tongue. Now, going back to the past, the newly wed couple had a tattoo each on their neck as a prove of love, a heart with the opposite name in it. Coming back to the man, as he passes by one of the ‘steel cage’, it made a terrible rocking sound. What he saw at the first glance was a… person who’s condition is beyond words. At the second glance, tears started to flow from the person in the cage. It was limbless. Third glance, the tattoo was spotted and colleagues around him confirmed his sight. It could not speak. After numerous calls were made and reports were lodged, he has finally found his lost wife and brought her home, carrying her like how a child would dearly carry a baby doll, despite her condition. Families gathered at the airport and best friend of the man told the man, “Why did you bring her back? You won’t find anymore pleasure in life with her.” with that said, a slap was given to the best friend while holding the wife. “I’m not letting her go anymore.” He said. He refused to let her parents to hug or even touch her. He carried her the entire way back even when wheelchair was provided. He kept his word when he said that he’s not letting her go anymore. Being a rich man that he is, he flew her to the States and got her prosthetic limbs and he intend to carry out his old promise to her, a real honeymoon to the entire Europe. A six year delayed honeymoon.
With this being shared, I do question humanity in each and every people in the world. I can not imagine the pain that the man went through and I definitely can not imagine the pain that the wife went through. I can not imagine the pain that people out there that has taken because of lost minds. I do not wish to know the pain. Memories of a young boy being taken many years ago and are still lost surfaced and it hurts. News of him being spotted around were circulated but no actions were taken to save him.
You and I are the same living person. So where is the heart?
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