The Children of Madurai

While recording Carnatic dancing for a project that a couple of the other students and I were conducting, we decided to speak with the younger students. Immediately, a little girl warmed up to me and decided to sit in my lap. Then, again and again other girls piled into my lap as well. They were incredibly inquisitive and wanted to absolutely every single detail about me. Where are you from? What’s your name? Each of the girls took a turn sitting in my lap, giggling after each other. It warmed my heart to see how such a simple thing such as being with a foreigner brought a sense of happiness and joy. Their eyes were bright with a sense of newness that I brought into their lives at that very moment. It just goes to show how you can make such a difference and impact in someone’s life, without doing much. You can touch their heart with simply just being there.