The mirror image
Sandhya was happy at the orphanage. But she knew, she would be happier in a family. She was happy because she had a nice head mistress, teachers, caretakers who always kept her happy. She never felt lonely except when alone, with the questions of her identity. When alone she thought that she was one of the many kids living in the orphanage. Though everyone was with her, none did she own, whom she could confidently say as ,"he/she is my someone." She hated her coded and uniform life. Whenever she saw all the children at orphanage in a dress code, sleeping in dormitories and eating in mess, Sandhya felt extremely bored. She wanted to be different from others- different clothes, different types of foods, a room only for her, parents who love only her and so on. She had seen how happy were the kids who were adopted. Everyday couples came and adopted a child but it was not Sandhya. Seema and Vinita, the two girls with whom Sandhya passed most of her time were also adopted in so...