T#2|Choices|Complete - Page 5

reserved! I am late, so not fair.

congrats on new thread

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Originally posted by: LoLo

My heart breaks at the way Khushi tortured herself here and yes Arnav is a coward. I still maintain that he started the ball rolling and in the end he won everything. He could have left Khushi with some shred of herself in tact, but he didn't. I again say, no one can say what a person deserves and doesn't deserve. We cannot judge. I know mothers who are the worse thing that has ever happened to their kids and you can't do anything about it. And then I see aunts and uncles and others who have raised children to be happy and healthy because their siblings were disasters waiting to happen. Yes Khushi should pay for her choices, but she went looking for Aryan from early on. She didn't wait until he was 24 to search selfishly for him. He's 4!!! And no 4 year old would understand all of this and suffer for the rest of his life for it. If Khushi was in his life, he would only know Miss Teacher now loved him. No one has to sit down and explain adoption to a 4 year old. Yes Khushi needs help, but cutting her off and making her feel like she commited murder here I don't agree with. Especially when there are 16 year olds in the world who dump their newborn babies in the garbage at their high school after giving birth to them on the bathroom floor. She made a wrong choice by giving him up, but she made a right choice by having him adopted properly. And, I'm glad she fought for him this time, as she would have never been able to live with herself had she not.

One more bone I must pick though. Bringing Aryan to the court and asking him about his mom was not realistic(sorry). Again he only knows what a 4 year old has been made to understand, and his mom is not a star. But how would he know Khushi is his mom? Asking him that and making that a determining factor in the court's decision was unfair, at best. If he were older maybe , but a 4 year old does not know any more than what he is made to understand by the adults around him. If you don't believe me, think of a man who rides a sled led by reindeer in the sky and comes down your chimney (YOUR CHIMNEY)to bring you the gifts you always wanted. If you had asked him would he like to spend time with Miss Teacher, he would have said yes, then what? Either way all I'm saying is he should not have been involved because he does not understand as a 4 year old.

Obviously you can tell how strongly I continue to feel about this story of yours. I've never been so hooked by a piece of fiction in my life before. Don't know whether that is good or bad though. LOL

Carry on, I'l continue to read.

@bold - i was reading your comment. And the bold caught my attention. Actually it is very realistic - i haven't been privy to this particular kind of incident. But when my parents adopted my younger sister, she was only 3 years old. I can still clearly remember the lawyer taking her into the room, and asking her questions. Obviously most she could not comprehend at that age, but she still could nod or make a gesture of understanding for the simplest. To say this, i am only saying. The child's are weighted a lot in decisions concerning cases like these. And Aryan, at least can understand most that is going around him. While its true, the child is almost ready to be molded in that age. His deepest feelings concerning where he is now , are very crucial. And adoption is a very large factor for a child at any age. Coming from first hand experience, age does't matter. The feelings that you were given up on and left with another. It is especially hard to explain to a child of a young age. And for Aryan to learn, that he had been given up on. Our parents had to do it, and i had to sit there and watch them tell my 3 year old sister that she was now going to be a part of our family. They didn't sugar coat or lie. They said the truth, and it hurt her. She couldn't understand it, but i saw she was damaged by this fact. My sister now 20, still questions who she is? Where she belongs? It is not that our parents gave her less love or she was excluded from our family somehow. But despite having grown up, the simple fact that the women who gave her birth... left her alone when she was a child haunts. And i cannot vouch for her, or for her feelings. But i feel her pain at times. And i feel sorry for the people who gave her up, but that's the advantage here i guess for me...for all of us... I have a little sister, and i have never been prouder to call her my sister.

happy to read and early update.

beautiful update glad to see kushi letting go...continue soon

you surprised me by updating so early. As i said in my last comment, i was still taking in that mammoth update and now this. so here goes, commenting on both of them together.