{"id":165,"date":"2016-09-14T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.isb.edu\/student-blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2025-12-31T09:22:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T09:22:52","slug":"na-jao-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.isb.edu\/student-blog\/2016\/09\/14\/na-jao-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Na Jao Ma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her eyes imploring, he finally figures it out,<br \/>\nIt must be her bed sores, and he adjusted their snouts.<br \/>\n\u2018So jao ma\u2019, he said, kissing her night,<br \/>\nShe responds, blinking enthusiastically despite her plight.<\/p>\n<p>He left, and the doctor\u2019s words flashed again in his jaded mind,<br \/>\n\u2018A year is the max she has left, everyone knows the prognosis of her kind.\u2019<br \/>\nHe was emotionally drained, tears having dried up long ago;<br \/>\nHe didn\u2019t feel anything now, there was nothing more that Algea could bestow.<\/p>\n<p>She had endured a lot as her muscles had withered away,<br \/>\nThe cramps, spasms, and the constant falls she suffered every day.<br \/>\nMaybe the mental stuff pained more than the physical,<br \/>\nBeing incapacitated rendered her hysterical.<\/p>\n<p>She was his child now, and he realized he owed her a lot,<br \/>\nFor he was a boy once, though his childhood hadn\u2019t been so fraught.<br \/>\nWhat is left now is not much, as he reminisced the past,<br \/>\nTrying to catch the sands of time, to extend each moment that her life would last.<\/p>\n<p>Smiling absently, he repeated his favorite saying to himself;<br \/>\nThe most temporary thing in life is life itself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mayank Sharma, PGP Co2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her eyes imploring, he finally figures it out, It must be her bed sores, and he adjusted their snouts. \u2018So jao ma\u2019, he said, kissing her night, She responds, blinking enthusiastically despite her plight. 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