We can't change it!!!!!

"Oh!!!!!
What a cute baby.....such a janu.....
see her....Oh how sweet?"

Everyone was so excited to see such a cute kid around.....

"Oh check her chubby cheeks yar......"

The girl.....was with her father and was waving back to some girls....with a very sweet, cute smile on her face...

"I think she has some _______", someone said.

"Oh! no yar.....this is not possible...look how sweet she is."
"yeah, she looks so pyari masha'Allah say......and perfectly fine...."

"No, yar there is some problem....." , another insisted.

While this discussion was going on.....the girl was out of sight....
She looked to be about 2 years and some months old.....
was very very cute, and quite active......

After a few moments, she again came in sight.....and was in everyone's notice again.....
This time she came and sat on the stairs and her mom (who was accompanying her this time) told her name as 'Malaika'....

FI brought her upstairs and unlike other kids who would cry and run away frightened....she came happily and sat with us...

"What's her age?" someone asked.
Her mom replied, "3 years".

On getting a close look, our fears seemed quite right.

She had it....she had speech problems, her eyes were not quite normal (although they were of a very beautiful colour), her smile was great, nidz even said she had that " single transverse palmar crease".... we tried to check but could not notice because her mom was ready to take her home now.

It seemed so unfair....
Her reflexes were sharp.... she was such a pretty kid..
She was here in the hospital because her father had some injury on his leg...which she sweetly told us by pointing on her own leg....

BUT SHE HAD DOWN'S SYNDROME.......

She was not interested in leaving so much of attention...and so we went with her for a little distance......
We disappeared....
But encountered her again after some while...
she kissed all of us.....
said bye in a scream...and left after waving her hand for quite long.......

She left us thinking for a while....

"How could it be yar....."
"such a pretty kid....."

But then, as Nidz said....
"We can't change it yaar"

It seems unfair, buts thats how it is.....
The harsh reality of life.....

Hospitals are a strange place...
They give hope to many people....cure to others....
and have no idea what to give to some people...
Malaika is probably one of them....

We can't help her much because its a genetic problem....
But yes family support probably would do her some good....
she is such an active, responsive, lovely, happy, cute kid....
i hope this society doesn't give her any complexes by offering too much of pity....

I pray for a miracle to make her as perfect as she could be....
and yes for her to stay happy....forever

MAY ALMIGHTY ALLAH BLESS HER!!!

"Indeed! such a cute, lovely, janu, pyara bacha. Muuaah!!!"