How it must have hurt...

Last night was a sleepless one.

I was viewing 《稀游记》 on Channel U. This was by far the most emotionally charged episode for me, not so due to the compassion of the lady featured (although I must say I do admire her courage and strength. We definitely need more people like her!), but rather for the trials of a man - the Schizophrenic 阿此.

Being modern mums in well-developed Singapore, we do have an abundance of resources that we can tap into if we have a child like 阿此. Yes, that doesn't make it any easier for any family with a child like him. It can only be worse for those from undeveloped area. I could not have imagined how it must have hurt his mum to have to put him into his "cell" - a pig sty-like hut, all because there's no other way for which they know of, that could help him, and keep the family safe from harm.

For 8 full years, this man does not even have the space to stand up, nor the "luxury" to go out of his enclosure (something many of us take for granted).

If I were the one caught in such a predicament, would I have sent my little girl to the "prison" in which she would have to call home, away from all who cares, to be forgotten by the world? Frankly speaking, I don't know. For who am I, who's so fortunate to be born where everything that we have seems so matter of fact, to judge the actions of those who does not even own a fraction of what I have?