Desperation and Hope
Janani Balasubramanian
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A couple of years ago, our family was stuck for a month inside a 400 sq. ft hotel here in Atlanta. We had just moved from India and were on the lookout for a rental place. Imagine a wild four-year-old being forced to stay in a small room cluttered with unopened cardboard boxes and suitcases. My little man started climbing up the walls in frustration!
All that we could do was take a walk around the parking lot of the hotel to get away from the four grey walls imprisoning us. On one such desperate walk, my son picked up a broken piece of black plastic from the ground. It was a carabiner hook, broken at one end and resembling a hook now.
I am not exaggerating at all when I tell you that for the next few weeks, that plastic hook was his absolute favorite toy. I was floored at the kind of games he invented with it and kept himself engaged.
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He named it ‘Vaangi’ (please don’t ask me why. That’s a story for another time).
Vaangi would be thrown across the parking lot, and we’d have to run to pick it up first. It was used for playing hide and seek. He’d throw it like a boomerang, and he believed from the bottom of his heart that it would return to him; he just had to work on the technique better.
Vaangi was used to carry grocery bags from the car to the room. He used it as a stencil to make different shapes and as a tool to make patterns on clay.
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Ok, so where am I going with this story?
Recently, I found Vaangi in my kid’s toy closet, and I couldn’t stop thinking about what that broken bit of plastic meant to my child back then.?
This four-year-old, so desperate for entertainment, managed to do the impossible. He took something that belonged in the trash and made it into a toy, which was all he needed to stay engaged and happy.
Desperation – we are all terrified of this word. We have been told that desperation is a lowly feeling to have and that it would push people to do things that they usually wouldn’t.
But is that so bad? When desperate, you grasp onto the tiniest possible hold. Desperation, when the doors are locked, makes you find the smallest of gaps in the wall and start prodding at it to see if you can widen it.
Being desperate means that you haven’t given up yet and that you have made up your mind to fight through. Desperation means there is hope, and hope will keep you going!
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