Soul Nodes

Pain speaks a dark language in silence. Sometimes it conveys what words can never express. One of life's most important realisations is that no pain is too big. There are millions of other humans doomed by their destiny and cursed by their fate. The stark and stoic realities of the lives of others in distress touch the raw nerves of our own soul. Years back, one day,  I happened to visit an orphanage. I was not in the best of my moods -  depressed and not so happy with the Vagaries of life and it's circumstances. The orphanage -  an old British era home, was filled with noises of kiddish chatter. A little girl around 6 - 7 years old sitting in a corner of a room caught my eye. She was staring into the oblivion - no where. The hollowness of her little sunken eyes devoid of even a tiny speck of a sparkle spoke of the immense suffering inside her heart. She wasn't deaf or dumb, I learnt that she had barely spoken a word since she was brought to the home for the kids. My eyes...

 Love is devotion. Love is the greatest power of existence. Love gives hope. Love makes life beautiful. In the twilight of life, the bodies become frail but love makes bonds stronger. Love is all about caring and care lets souls be bonded to each other till eternity.  This is a beautiful story of an elderly couple. At 74, the lady suffers from peripheral neuropathy, a condition of the nerves that makes the limbs weak. With restricted hand movements, she finds it difficult to do her daily little chores but she isn't flustered a bit because her man is around her all the time, helping her in every small thing -  he helps her dress up, holds her when she stands and brings her what she wants notwithstanding his own dementia at 79. ❤️  "He doesn't tie my hair properly" she tells her son and daughter in law so she calls them to tie her hair. He, on the other hand, barely remembers names. He has lost orientation to dates and years but his weak memory doesn't deter him bec...