In the End, We All Need Love🥺

 Yesterday evening, I watched a video about a small monkey at a zoo in Japan. His name is Punch-kun. He was born in July 2025, but just hours after his birth, his mother abandoned him.

The zookeeper fed him on time and took good care of him. But no matter how much care he received, he still needed the warmth of his mother. There is a place that no one can replace — having someone to hold onto, someone to share your joy and sorrow with, someone to receive love from and share warm hugs.

Realizing this, the zookeeper gave him a stuffed orangutan plushie. And he never let it go. He slept with it. Wherever he went, he carried it — as if it were his mother.

After a few months, when he was introduced to other monkeys, he was bullied by the older ones. He was beaten. He searched for love in them… but they rejected both him and his plushie.

In pain and agony, he ran back to his “mother”,  the toy and hugged it tightly, as if expecting it to hug him back and console him.

In another video, when the zookeeper who had been caring for him came to feed the monkeys, Punch-kun ran through the crowd of nearly a hundred monkeys and jumped into his arms. It felt like that little soul was begging — sharing all his pain, asking for love and rescue. The man comforted him and gently placed him back with his doll.

Watching this, my eyes filled with tears. I didn’t know how to react. Even among them, there was division and rejection. But the happy news I saw today is that he was finally accepted by a few monkeys. One of them hugged Punch tightly — and in his eyes, you could see everything he had gone through, and how much that warm hug meant.

As humans, we could also relate to him because,

We too have been isolated.

We too have been thrown away.

We too have been hurt.

We too have longed for love.

It’s painful to always give and never receive.

And when someone finally notices us, we burst out — just like Punch.

Because in the end, the world needs love.



(A small update🔔😁)

For the next four days, I’ll be posting blogs daily instead of on alternate days as I usually do — because I’m going to my native! I’d love to take all my sweet readers and reviewers with me…

Not on the bus though (I definitely can’t afford tickets for all of you 😅), but through my writing — which is far more budget-friendly, heartfelt, and hopefully impactful🩷.

Stay tuned 💛✨

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