I read the heartwrenching story and watched the heartwarming slideshow about the story of Dani, the girl in the window. I ranted, I got angry, I got sad and most importantly, I wanted to know how much more I can help.
Does what I do help people?
Can the pursuit of artistic and engineering excellence help people?
Is the job of a speech therapist or a journalist more noble than that of an architect?
I don't think I have delved deep enough to architecture to know the answer. The answer does not come easy when I have a banal purchase order of WCs and taps to fill up as part of my job on my other window as I read about people who give their all to raise a child.
Guilty mama took over and I searched my computer for a picture of Shea to post and blog about. Luck would have it that I accomplished the behemoth task of cleaning up my hard disk yesterday and in the last 2 months ... I have 4 (very blurred) photos of Shea and 400 photos of the houses I'm building. Of course, that's just reality telling me "YOUR PRIORITIES ARE SCREWED UP LAH DEY!" and I had to settle for a photo taken in March on my phone camera to pick me up.
All I can do next is to take out my cheque book to make a donation to Operation Smile and crept over to Shea's room to give a goodnight peck to my already sleeping daughter.
I still feel sorely empty.
And I can't even help myself.
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