The Beauty of Imperfection

 

You can't force a blessing. It has to happen when the timing is right. Also, you can't control every single aspect of it, even if by extreme synchronicity of divine will and your efforts, a common destiny was pursued. When sometimes you take a step back to see a situation from a different angle, you will actual unravel the beauty of it. 

Rashmika and Hermando had been married in a wonderful thought-out ceremony in the august presence of friends and family.  People wishing the young couple their very best while secretly flaunting their latest wardrobe and accessories and the men silently subtly making husband-wife jokes between themselves. They went on their personal trip to meghalaya, spent days in marital harmony and as the days passed. Rashmika started showing her bump. Sometimes, more than the actual experience, the period before the experience, when you know something Good is going to happen is so magical. Like the friday before a monday holiday scenario, dark clouds before a rain, in the eyes of a farmer etc. They both held each other's hands and minds together,  eager to receive the new born and expand their flock. The day arrived, a beautiful girl was born. And then it happened. The baby happened to show no signs of hearing. It was born deaf. But her features were so fine and she looked like someone who was so well incubated in a mother's love even when she was in the womb. God doesn't send someone in our lives without a reason. Like the cliched way to put it, its either an experience or a lesson. They named her Raagini , indicating even though she couldn't hear own voice, her mere existence was a melody ( Raaga - in Indian parlance means a melody ) . Years passed as Raagini came of age and it was time to get her married. 

Meanwhile, the Yadav clan were also looking for a bride for their son Vagesh (meaning, Lord of Speech). Vagesh, was a handsome young man , performing a key role in the mechanical industry. He was careful to not choose the Technology Industry for making his money as there is lot of vocal communication  involved and our prince, Vagesh, happened to suffer from Stammering. Growing up, he battled the trauma as some impatiently waited for him to complete a sentence , while some looked at him with pity when he merely wanted to be treated like the rest of them. But there was no solution to this. He had a decent manly voice, but every now and then, he stumbled across a word or two and this was a silent chink in his armor. He pursued skills around machines, automobile industry and began to be successful on his job. The Yadav couple had a similar, "Oh Lord - what have you sent us" moment, when they first discovered their boy was struggling to speak as he hit kindergarten. It's never easy to be a parent when you can't do nothing about a situation and also you just can't accept the situation, particular if its about your child. 

One good day, Vagesh was out with his friends discussing about their project and he was explaining the latest model to a group of people in a public camp. This was the toughest part of his job - it was all magical and natural for him as he built his product but when he had to talk about it, it was hellfire. Raagini was one among the audience, as she was attentively listening about the product ( a moped ) which she hoped she would gift her dad before she got married. She listened , by reading Vagesh's lips as he began to praise the new model for its mileage, make and model design. The crowd slowly dispersed and Raagini was deeply contemplating placing an order to get an additional discount on the first 100 purchasers of the model. Vagesh's eyes finally locked with Raagini, as she by a strange pull started walking towards him even as she was making the sentences in her head to communicate to him. Vagesh began to sweat as Raagini , was conventionally a pretty girl with fine features and he was insanely irritated that she might not like him for his own defect. Yet, he stood his ground as this was about work. She came up to him and started making signs when a sudden sense of relief and an instant guilt overtook him. He was happy, she couldn't hear, but he immediately realized how wrong it was to even have such a thought. 

They conversed with each other for a good 30 minutes, as Vagesh began to show her around, give her pamphlets and gave his card with his number incase she followed up with her initial interest. A day passed when Vagesh received a text from a new number, and he felt an instant ray of joy. Their conversations were initially about the moped, but soon gracefully grew about their own lives. They began to meet over casual coffees as Raagini soon placed an order with a good discount as they themselves were drawing cupid towards them. Hermando was delighted as a father but his joy turned into suffocation as he realized what an angel his girl was and how he was going to secure her future. Raagini and Vagesh , in one of those interactions finally decided to bear their soul and express their mutual affection about each other. And then onwards, there was no slowing down. They grew insanely close, developed trust in each other and felt supremely secure about their respective defects. 

They called on their parents and declared their love for each other. The story of  how Vagesh's broken verbal dance was still a music to Raagini's ears and how her silence was still an auditorium of Love and confidence for him began to be reality. The Yadav clan and Hermando couple met, realized that after all these years of trying to do right by their children, it paid off. The couple got married in a blessed ceremony and started , probably the most Loving, Secure and unbreakable vow of marriage as theirs was handpicked by destiny, neatly merging their missing pieces in such a way there was nothing left incomplete.

Yes - when something happens not according to how we expected, it is tough. But we only see what we see. Children born with defects are not randomly sent to parents. Life hand picks the couples, because they know that these souls will simply thrive only in such loving circumstances. That these souls will still feel whole despite the pieces missing in them. And probably as much grueling and uneasy it might be , as a parent, if at all you happened to do right by your child, however they were, you have no idea how much blessing you are going to attract upon your soul. 

I wish that after reading this, everyone demonstrates respect before sympathy , kindness before impatience when we meet a 'special' person. It's indeed a Luck to be 'Normal' for nature could have just changed one value - one small value while we were being configured in our mother's womb to make us a special person. Except that, it didn't and we are blessed to be born whole. Express non-judgmental kindness, respect and admiration for any person who happens to miss a gift or two, for God and Nature is watching over us every second . All it takes is just one move. Let's be grateful to God and graceful to Life, despite the secret imperfections we 'think' we are having , for there are some out there who are much more ...I leave it to you to complete the sentence.