I woke up to find myself in a new place. OMG! I'm kidnapped... I can't remember what happened. I try to recall and I just remember her. She pushed a white hand kerchief to my nose.
But I'm lying on a bed. I'm not tied. I rushed to the door to...
By 10:00 AM, we reached the orphanage. The children there welcomed Young like a prince. Then it struck me on reading the name board again. This orphanage must belong to the Choi family. Thinking about that I entered inside and found myself in a small village that did not look like an orphanage at all. It was like a well-built college hostel. Choi Young turned from the kids and gestured me to join him inside.
"Come in Heartina. I promise you will have a great time here". I smiled at him and went inside and asked my question. "Does this orphanage belong to your family?"
"Yes. It has a long story behind. Want to hear my story?"
"Sure".
"I was 5 years old. My parents usually host big parties for my birthday spending money lavishly. I did not realize this unwanted spending of money till I was 5 years old. Like all the years, my parents started making plans to host a big party. I went to them and asked them not to spend much on birthdays. They smiled at me and started worrying about their status. I said a firm no to these parties. My father then decided to build a shopping mall for my birthday and then I agreed at first. Next day, on my way back home, I found a kid of my age begging on the street. He was asking for food and also had his sister on his back. Both had not eaten for about a week and they were orphans. That particular day, I had not eaten my lunch because it was a dish that I hated the most. As there was food in my lunch box, I wanted to give that poor boy my own box. I tried to get out of my car. But as my dad had many rivals in business, I was always accompanied by 4 security guards. These guards did not allow me to get out of the car. So what I did was, I opened the window and at that moment, he (poor boy), saw me and we made eye contact and I threw my lunch box to him. He caught the box and made a deep bow showing his gratitude to me. That day I learnt many things:
1. There were people in this world suffering from hunger, poverty and could not even afford single meal a day.
2. I must not waste food.
3. The rich people are given a lot of money by the Almighty to help the poor people.
4. I decided to become a doctor to do free service and I also decided to become a psychologist as mind was the only part of the body that can not only creates but also destroys people. So, if a person had a healthy mind, automatically the person's body will also be healthy.
That evening, I went straight to my dad and said, I did not want a shopping mall for my birthday but an orphanage was all I wanted. First, my dad did not accept. After a lot of argument, he said yes. From that year, my dad started to give me a newly built orphanage as a present. Now I am 26 years old and we have 20 orphanages all over Korea and one here at Macau. We give the children here free education, food, clothing and medical treatment. Once they are off age, they are free to leave the orphanage and settle down. That is the end of the story, Heartina".
"WOW!" Choi Young was a better and kinder person that I had imagined. He rose to a very respectable position in my mind.
"Choi Young, you are the kindest person I have ever met in my life".
"Look", pointed Young.
I looked towards it and found a blue print of the orphanage. It was not like an orphanage at all. It was like a village.
From the entrance gate, we had walked about 200 footsteps and there was a big block labeled the "ADMIN" and to its left was a building labeled as "DISPENSARY".
He smiled and then moved to a room labeled as "DISPENSARY". I went in too. The room was large and it had about 15 beds in the corner. It was like a hospital built inside the orphanage. I started to like Young even more as he was the kindest creature on Earth. He sat in the doctor's chair and asked me to sit next to him. All the objects
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Inside the hospital were white except that of the medical instruments that were steel grey in color. I felt really jealous of his birthday presents. I usually got a small chocolate as a present for my birthday but he, received an entire orphanage as a gift. But at the same time, the chocolate I got was for my happiness while, his present was for other's happiness. I saluted him in my mind.
A lady of age 50 came inside. Choi Young introduced me to her. "Ms. Park Sung Ju, this is Heartina Williams. She is my guest here".
"Heartina, this is Ms. Park Sung Ju. She is the caretaker in this orphanage. Madam, will you please take Heartina a tour around this place?"
"Yes son. Come with me dear". I went with her. She was a kind old woman. She told me that she was very fond of kids and due to some problems she could not have kids. So, she had not married at all and decided to spend all her time serving these kids.
"How are you related to Choi Young dear? Don't mistake me because, Choi Young has not bought any guests here except 5 fingers, and I was actually surprised to see you. Are you his girlfriend?"
I felt myself going red. "No", I said curtly.
"Sorry, dear. I could not control my curiosity. I wish he would settle down. He does not speak to girls at all. He speaks to a girl only if she is his patient or a relative. Do you fall in any of this category?"
"No, I am here on business with him", I answered gently this time. I was thankful that she didn't pry on the topic further.
