Reading this today only made me realise that I must have lost touch with the world and the rate at which every aspect of our traditional living has changed rapidly. I mean, for eons now, I've only come close to hearing and personally knowing cases of babies being adopted by childless or kind-hearted souls as well as pets and/or animals up for adoption.
Surprised is an understatement of my emotions when I read the following http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4BXE0DLFX0GHKCRBAE0CFFA?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=6333610 article and found that there is a whole new way the age-old adoption practice comes to play at this day and age.
Imagine a grandpa putting himself up for adoption in the classifieds section and actually gets overwhelming response to his ad? That I've never heard anything like this before aside, it only makes me feel that the world we live in now is by and large a much sadder place than it probably was generations. Not that I'm saying some years ago there were no aged lonely souls in need of love, care and much in need of a family to call their own.
But this adoption "scheme" introduced by the Italian grandpa just makes me wonder what's next? Can children and parents who dislike one another put themselves up for adoption in the name of loneliness or boredom (of seeing the same old face daily)?
What about couples who are having a war of words with each other - can they too opt to be adopted by different spouses for a change? My questions, perhaps, appear too far-fetched for now but I don't think we can rule out any possibility when anything and almost everything is possible these days.
Think about it. Now a grandpa has been successfully put up for adoption and obtained encouraging response in view of his classifieds ad...what's there to stop the next person to set a trend of his or her own by coming up with something new?
Oh well, perhaps before I'm beaten to it again, I should put myself up for adoption too - my personal ad will read something along the lines of "A single and career minded lady is in search of a boss who knows her job and how to do it well. The potential boss should also be fuss free, knows how to prioritise, not bring home matters to the work front, doesn't pass the buck, appreciates employee's efforts, approves annual leave application without asking questions, doesn't overload you with work and doesn't cause a stir in the production deadline due to their own inefficiency. Interested? Please e-mail me."
I wonder if this ad of putting myself up for adoption in search of an ideal superior to work for becomes a reality, would there be any takers?
That's food for thought for me today but on the same note I'm not about to tell myself the "never try, you'd never know" line - not in this instance at least!
