The Elation Of Crying
When I first came to the Earth, I was given to a man with a white coat. Everyone was calling him a ‘ Doctor’. He took me softly in his arms but out of a sudden, he started patting my back ruthlessly. I was shaken, and I cried. I didn’t know what sin I had committed that he hit me; I hadn’t even kicked him, like I used to kick my mother sometimes, when I was really mad at her. When the first tear flew out of my eye and I whined, even my own parents were smiling! ...