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Pain - Speak.

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...