Adopted Joy

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After many sultry days, the skies were marked with the faint spark of thunder and black clouds.These were the new tidings of the new day, blessed twice. Yet another tiding occurred which seemed rather the opposite of joy. With the first drop from the skies, a most exuberant life was brought to this world. A beautiful angel, a girl yet with a small flaw ; her left upper arm had a dark smear, a birthmark. But even this mark could not take over her actual beauty. Yet with such joy at hands, the parents were dismayed. They abandoned the little angel and left her on the streets to suffer the wrath of torrential rains. The girl cackled and cooed and cried aloud. But the almighty can't abandon his creation so blissful. An old lady came to salvage the girl and caressed her forever.

However for the mean couple were again blessed with a boy, and it was now that they felt blessed.

And so times grew old. The siblings grew together yet remote from each other, unknowing the ugly truth. The girl with the blessedness of the old lady grew more exuberant and she lived carelessly. The old lady was dismayed by her doings as she was unwilling to study and excel in life. So realizing the need, she told the young girl of ten, the story of her past. The girl was shook and the world she thought to be a mean place. She lost her faith in humanity. But again, the old lady instilled the reliance and the spirit of independence in her daughter. She loved the little girl and never failed to provide her with the modes of achieving excellence in life, yet these were optimum and not sufficient . They shared a very pure and lovely relationship. The girl finally decided to prove herself to the mean world. She studied and read and practiced and wrote. She passed with brilliant marks and graduated as a glimmering gem. Times seemed blissful for the old lady and her daughter. The girl was offered a job in the leading firm and her happiness knew no bounds. The old lady felt likewise.

The firm she was employed in, had established a great name in the city with smart business techniques. However, the rich firm suffered great losses recently with the changing of the Head. The head being the owner's son, failed the firm. He grew but in vain. His parents spent all their money for him to excel, yet he failed them miserably. He grew up to be a brat; rather a blot.The parents beings rich, provided all the luxuries and prerogatives, all that they possibly could and at times, even what they could not. He destroyed and disgraced the respected family of the city.

The girl, with zeal debuted her step towards the business tycoon's building where she was employed. Within a couple of hours the exposition of the downfall of the company was visible to her. She felt hapless. Her employer seemed rather lost and gloomy in his massive cabin. She knew the future was worse for the once so regal family of businessmen. It was the first day that she decided to uplift the firm. She worked extensively. The spirit of perseverance, dreaming and struggling was well instilled in her. Finally with her re-animation of the firm, She lead the staff and marched on to attain success with the co-operation of her refreshed co-workers and the firm saw bright days ahead. The business boomed and the profit graphs were steeping up ever. Beating all the records.

And then one day, the truth, long-forgotten and unprecedented, was exposed. It was the celebration of the gigantic success attained by the company. By the pool, at the massive mansion of the company's boss, the whole staff had emerged. People sang, danced and chattered joyfully. Merry was the day. Then the special girl was accredited with this success and accorded with a trophy. She modestly acknowledged her co-workers with grace. As she rose her hand to a toast, her tunic slipped and the smear on her upper arm was made visible as she proclaimed, "This would not have been possible without your co-operation and understanding. My mother has helped me with all this. She is truly my savior! Had she not been there, I wouldn't have made this far. I was abandoned by my real parents and left to die, yet destiny took me to her. I'm very thankful today. I was an adopted joy, and I believe I've today made her happy. Thank you all!"

As she dismounted the stairs of the stage, the eyes of the boss and her wife were filled with amazement and a tear rolled on the mother's cheek, making tracks. The moment the story of the past was told by the girl, and the moment they saw the birthmark, they knew it. And then it came to their reckoning, reminding them of the sinister, stormy night. They were the villainous parents of the story. They were the ones who had abandoned the girl years ago. Within seconds as they felt their hearts in mouths due to their decision, they ran up to her and confessed their defeat and mistakes. This was a most astounding revelation as the girl's heart dropped down to her stomach and she felt the light of the day fading away swiftly. The girl was filled with rage and angst and she shunned her parents. She found herself in a dilemma and choked as she made up her mind to speak her heart out. "People seem to think that girls aren't worth a dime. Often do we face this ugly mindset and yet we emerge to face and vanquish people like you. Your thoughts are a blot to this world. What is the use of such money when you have a black heart and darker mind? You've failed me. And not just me, you've failed all of the world. I cannot spend my life with murderers and criminals, for these certainly you are." She sulked and gasped in between her shrieks and sobs. With rage she let the pains of the past out. She stormed from the mansion.

In a year, the girl superseded her tycoon father in his own field of business. She emerged as the greatest businesswoman and her story, her struggle inspired all the masses ever and again. She lived in paradise.

Years hence then, with the blessedness of the almighty, she adopted joy. She adopted an abandoned girl child. And ever she caressed the one and many such others, with her organisation for the upliftment of abandoned girl child, 'Adopted Joy.'