Gratitude

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When this topic came up, this was the first incident that came to my mind. We will forever remain grateful to our neighbours here in a foreign land who helped us out at a very critical time. 🙏🏼

Amidst the pandemic last year, I came to know I was pregnant with our second child. Elation, worry and my pregnancy kept we up all night. For our firstborn, we were able to travel to India to welcome him. However, chances of that faded for the second one because not only all air travel was closed but also India was amidst the covid crisis. So it was decided that we would have the whole journey of welcoming the new baby in a foreign land.

We didn’t leave any stone unturned to look for a nanny or a helper to be with us for a few months, but to no avail. Quite a few answered to our queries but none came knocking our door. My panic as to how will I manage the household, the new baby and also my elder one, kept increasing my insomnia tenfolds. And also at that time due to various restrictions, patients were allowed only 1 accompanying person at the hospital. So where would we keep our son while I would be admitted was a question that much bothered us.

It was then that they formed a small whatsapp group which co-ordinated to have food delivered to us from their kitchen for the duration of my stay at the hospital for my husband and my kid. And not only for those days, they continued to do it for a period of one whole month while I was handling a new born and was recovering from a ceaserean delivery. They also took turns to take care of our son when my husband had to do the hospital visits.

And they did it without any fanfare. Continuously asking for our choices, whatever we wanted or liked, different food at three different times of the day- they will never know the impact they left on us. What they did being complete strangers, sometimes our near ones don’t tend to do. It might be a little help on their part but was immensely helpful for us at a very delicate time. To not worry about what food we will have next helped us take care of other matters better.

We will never be able to return this great favour and don’t even try to because it is above that but we hope to extend this forward to someone else. Their kindness will remain with us till our last breath and will remind us to be kind to others. Our gratitude for them will be lifelong.