No matter how bleak life’s realities, there is something about new babies that rekindles hope, engenders love and turns even the most hardened cynic into a dreamer. We welcomed a newborn to our family a few days ago and she has transformed us all. Her parents have a new axis to their universe and her name means poetess, though she could well be likened to a poem they created.
There is nothing to compare with the innocence of the newborn and the sweetness on her face, as she begins to forget life in the womb and starts a new life in our world. Her greatest safe-guard is her helpless, a powerful device that cannot be ignored. Her dependency is enough to ensure food and warmth and succor, when she needs it.
Babies, in their immaculate state, bring out the best in all of us. Perhaps, unknowingly, they allow as the opportunity to start over. As Henry Thoreau wisely put it ‘Every child begins the world again’.
