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20 Jan 2009

Who’s Innocent? (Part 1)

Posted by decem under Family & Friends.

Life is unfair and we all know because all good things will come to an end eventually. And most of the time we are envious of certain things in some people lives that we can’t achieve. But of course we wholeheartedly still feels fortunate enough to know that we have got the things that some people doesn’t has at all. So i was reminded of all these when i was at the hospital today. A hospital for children or infants.

I start to understand that whatever things that happens to the adults, the child is always, however, innocent and helpless.

My nephew, Glen, is 3 years old this year. He is a brilliant child. A boy that makes everyone around him loves him so much because he is so adorable and amusingly simple-minded. He is tough, he is rough and he likes music and bananas. Every kid is playful i would say, but they were born to be and is harmless always. Chuckles or tears, we would want to share with them.

He was admitted to hospital on 19th Jan Monday night and i was told later on the next day. My mind went frantic when i ask his mother, Kelly what had happened. I felt so deplorably bad to have heard the cause then.

After knowing that Glen was badly scalded by boiling water, i could sensed his pain and the way he will respond to that occurrence. But the reality is, what i had seen with my own eyes could not compare to what i have heard when i visited him yesterday.

I hate to say these but i think i still have to make it right. Last week my brother Benny, was sentenced 5 years to jail. It’s just because of some silly business-like activity that has got him committed. And for that i would also say that it’s his influences and his silliness to have some so-called trusted friends that he had socialized with. And his nice personality has exchanged him the loss of liberty for the next few years.

I am not that closed with my brother after he has got his own family and life. He moved in with them and share their happiness. But my brother would call me up for some times when he quarreled with her. And he will come alone to my place for a stay. He told me what has been going on, as i knew that his wife is averse to work, housework of course, inducing idleness and eats all the time. Messed up the house, and not restricting the child from vandalism on the things that was bought by his hard earned money. And she slept till late afternoon not knowing that the baby needs feeding. This happened at my father’s house before they moved out themselves. My father came back his home in the late afternoon seeing that she’s still sleeping while the baby is crying. So that impression came into my ears as well.

I’ve seen it with my own eyes one morning when i went up to visit my brother at his home. I saw her sitting on the couch with a pack of potato chips on her hand and mouthfull of it, like she’s afraid that i might ask her for some. Watching tv shows while my brother was washing the laundry and cleaning the house. But i thought they were supposed to share them together. Yet later on it turns into pieces of scattered mirrors.

Benny will be home after 10pm for a long working hours from 8am. So he will buy dinner home for his wife every night. He will then get disappointed again after seeing this and that thing has been damaged. Cleared the mess and then sleeps after midnight. So the tolerance limits, accumulates and one day they fought again and my brother had punched her on her nose causing it to fractured. Well, it’s a crime of passion. An emotional body reaction and harshness that broke out. But surely that was filed as a police case. So my brother intended to moved out to live by himself. As he did.

Then days goes by, he got himself into trouble. Without proper guidance and having bad company’s assembling plus perplexity has led him into the path of negative gestures. There’s still a lot of happenings between them then like child custody, divorce attempts and many. I believed my brother was so stressed up as he keeps working each day, takes the last bus service home while missing his son Glen so badly..

As for Kelly, she demanded a sum of money each month for the expenses of the mother and son. More than enough, she would ask my brother to pay for her handphone bill as well. My brother is just too soft-heartened at times. So he will provides whatever that was needed even if she’s asking too much. And i couldn’t care much, as i could only advice him as time goes by.

But for now, at this moment of time, i think i am just useless without going out there to fulfill something that has to be done. Which is the welfare and custody of Glen, i must fight this to win as to protect this child who is innocent, and a victim of a heartless mother…

Why heartless??

(continues on part 2)

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