When I stepped into the girls' home of Rumah Juara(it is a part where guys cannot enter), I was asked by the person in charge(Ms Cecilia) to help the kids with their homework. There was this kid, Krystal, who was only 4 years old, who ran to her bag and take out her books. She keeps on telling me that she has homework, but actually she doesn't have one. So the elder kids took out a coloring book for her as her 'homework', but she just couldn't sit still. One minute she wants to go to the toilet, the next minute she wants to drink water. She held my hand and ask me to bring her here and there. She keeps on telling me that she's not a kid anymore. She even attempted to tie my hair for me, and ended up pulling my hair. It was really unforgettable.
After minutes of struggling with her, I brought her to the book rack to choose her favourite book for me to read it to her. To my surprise, she climbed up the book rack to take out the books she couldn't reach. I had to hold on to her the whole time as I was afraid that she will fall. However, she doesn't know how to come down after that, and I had to carry her down. Then she found out that she likes it and started climbing up and making me carry her down, but the problem is she never give me any signal before letting go, so I had to make sure I'm holding her all the time. It touched my heart that such a young kid will trust somebody else whom she had just met for the first time so easily. I reminisced the old times when I was still a kid who trusted everyone around me, and look at myself today. What has life done to us? Why is it so difficult for us to trust others?
For that 3 hours visit, the kid talked non-stop. I felt a pang of sympathy for her as I know she is lonely most of the time and it is not easy for them to get a 1-to-1 attention. We've grown up with so much attention that sometimes we complain about the constant nagging of our parents. We've taken things for granted all the time, but now i realized, we own so much compared to them.
I know that it is impossible for me to pay so much attention to all of them, but if every one of us do our part, at least they can feel that they are loved and cared too. This is very important in order to promote their mental health growth.
Yeoh Ming Jing
(KEE140039)
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