Heart of Stone

Heart Of Stone What a heart wrenching piece of news.. In today’s spread of daily news… Boldly headlined ‘Mom: No Forgiveness” It was about filial hurt and devastated dreams. This news worthy piece of news was rather brief.. The reporter was probably trying hard to be objective.. This news begin with a factual statement of a 10 years’ ordeal.. A 63year-old woman looking for forgiveness, to make amends.. There were only two colored photos displayed, The main one showing a unsmiling woman, Bagged eyes, resolute and looking slightly defiant… Her left hand across the bony shoulders of a skinny man. They were enstranged siblings, getting back together after 30 years… She is 63 while big brother is 65, the latter must have had tough years … Gaunt and feeble looking, big brother has been more forgiving, Brotherly love tirelessly scouring for 30 years for a sister missing… The second picture, O how it speaks the depths of timeless hurt and despair.. When it caught and froze a 93 year old mother’s wave of rejection for reconciliation There she was, a feeble bent over aged mother, an upraised left hand with open palm.. In her hardened heart, she was dismissing an intruder from revisiting old wounds… Nothing was written, nothing was reported, the beseeches and pleadings to be heard.. This 63 year-old long lost daughter, unlike a biblical prodigal son, was not to heal a hurt… A hurt so deep and forgotten, that must have devastated the family and the siblings that day… When she chose to run away from her home, her parents and siblings on that fateful day.. A lot of water has flown under the family bridge and if you were to read between the lines.. Her unexplained and undoubtedly unforeseen rebellious act of abandoning her home that time.. Was a betrayal that destroyed and endangered all close family love, dreams and ties.. Even her elder brother too escaped the family nest and for 30 long years he looked for her… O what a sad episode for a Malaysian family, the trauma and the hurt, the crushed dreams.. 30 years of anguish and regrets supplanted by an armor of wilful memory loss and silent screams.. Even at 93, “You ran away all these years without thinking and caring about how we feel”.. A simple statement of truth, how it must have hurt, is there time enough for such wound to heal? http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2015/11/12/Mum-No-forgiveness-Runaway-daughter-fails-to-get-happy-reunion/