Kindness

My daughter, 'kindness' is lost in the world. She just turned 25 yesterday. It’s been more than four years that she is missing. We have tried everything to find her, are still searching for her and I am sure she’ll come back home. I daily pray for her and I know she is fine wherever she is, but, honestly, there are moments when my faith is shattered, those moments are few but they are there. She had told me once, ‘mom as long as I am alive I’ll always be with you’ and her words help me to carry on.’

She was wearing ‘hope’ when she went missing. She is very beautiful. She is 5’3, slim and fair. She has long dark locks of hair and has big brown eyes. She appears to be fragile but she is not. She is selfless, honest and giving by nature. Needless to say, she finds happiness in living for others. She is not an extrovert but she won’t mind walking an extra mile to help the ones in need. People have often tried to take advantage of her giving nature. But, my daughter has never suffered. People searched for her only when they were in extreme wretchedness or when they had nothing to accompany them. She knew why people came to her and she wouldn't mind that. She would listen to them patiently, help them in every way she could and do her best to make them feel better. However, when she looked for company and understanding she found none.

She has a very few relationships, so few that you can count them on fingers. All she has in her life is me and her brother ‘faith’. In all these 25 years she only had one true friend, her name was Grace. Grace and Kindness have been friends for almost 5 years. Grace was like my other daughter, I loved her as much as I love kindness. Our little heaven got filled with emptiness when we lost Grace in a road accident ten years ago. Kindness was 15 when we lost grace.

 It’s strange to say but Kindness did not miss her and she never had any friend in her school and college. When I asked her do you miss Grace she just said, ‘I don’t have to miss her. She is very much with me, she taught me face the worst with grace and I am precisely doing that. She never cried nor did she suffer. Suffering is just not meant for her. In this aspect, I am glad to say my Kindness doesn't belong to this world. She is above the suffering and pain that others feel. God knows from where she inherited this strength. She was even molested once by power but she handled that too with grace. When I cursed power for what he did to my child and asked her to demand justice she said there is only thing I can do ‘forgive and move on’.
I felt pain to see her facing all that with smile, I couldn't do anything for her, I was helpless when people took advantage of her giving nature. I could do nothing to when nobody showed up to help her. My kindness learnt to survive in this world all by herself, without expecting anything from any one. Whenever I was worried for her, she would come to me, hug me and say, mom, don’t make yourself go through this pain, stop fretting over what will happen to me. Nothing will happen and don’t expect people to be kind to me, when I am kindness how can someone else be ‘me’.

It’s true no one can be like my daughter; she is kind and no one can be like her. If at all you happen to see her, please tell her to come back soon, tell her that her old mom and her brother ‘faith’ are waiting for her and that we believe that she belongs to us and will touch our lives soon. Please do tell her that our world is empty without her and she is all that we have and all that we need. There is nothing that belongs to us in this world apart from her.