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A Sad Sight |
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2009-10-12
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A Sad Sight
Dear Dr. Laura,
I just saw something very troubling and I had to share it with someone who can appreciate the full extent of how sad this really is.
While taking a quick break from work to grab some coffee, I noticed these adorable, fat-cheeked babies being pushed in a double stroller. So cute! Behind them was a wagon of equally adorable, equally cherubic babies being pulled by a young looking girl in her 20s. This must have been the daycare kids being taken out for their daily "walk". It reminds me of taking a dog out.
Being in a big city, I am sadly used to seeing this site. Children being pulled in wagons or walking hand-in-hand in a chain formation while their 2 (yes..only 2 for about 8 children or so) daycare-takers yammer on with each other is quite common.
But what was unique about today' s experience is that not one of these babies was older than 12 months. The ones able to sit up and hold on were in the wagon (even though one looked like she had just learned to sit up) and the younger ones were in the stroller.
As a never-married 31 yr old woman waiting for the day to meet a good man and be a stay-at-home mom, this sight tore me up. I would have taken every single one of those babies in my arms and run away with them if I could. I wanted to hug them and stimulate them (the babies didn't seem interested in what the daycare-takers were gossiping about, oddly enough) and pinch their fat baby cheeks.
I wondered why is it that I would give my right arm to have even one of those babies while their very own parents, the people that created them, routinely gave them up every day to go to their thankless jobs.
This image will haunt me. I had to share it with you because I know you and your listeners will be sad too.
Thank you for your lone voice guiding us in the darkness!
K.
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