Whether it be movies or houses in reality, you all must have noticed mothers shouting behind their daughters to make them learn household works even in today's age, forget about the time long back when girls were even not sent to schools.
And then I got to know about a girl who has an altogether different experience regarding life.
She was born in an entirely lower-middle class family. At that time her mother was a housewife and father an unemployed elder son of a miser family. You can imagine how difficult the Life would have been for them!
As her Mom says. "I cried a lot whenever I saw my daughter wearing a torn frock. I always wanted to give her everything. I felt broken from inside whenever I had to feed her water due to unavailability of milk, an irresponsible behaviour by my in-laws."
You must be wondering "what kind of princess is this girl?".
But then after four years of her birth she was out of that miser jail along with her younger brother, Mom and Dad and entered into a new world "Delhi" where her father got posted as a teacher. But a meager salary has never helped any family.
And hence starts a common journey of parents to feed their children when they themselves lived with half empty stomach. But they never let their children feel anything like that.
Time kept flowing away and this family slowly and steadily collected every thing of luxury (almost) which is needed in today's age.
This girl still remembered how at the age of 13 (In 2004) her family got their first telephone (Tata Indicom - the cheapest one) but ultimately they had one. The best part was she always understood what life was for her parents and hence never complained about anything.
She was always allowed to do anything and go anywhere on just one condition, she should at least tell to her parents where she was going. Acceptable? Of course yes.
She (along with her brother) was sent to a reputed convent school without caring about the amount they would be charging and hired a van for conveyance (when their relatives started taunting them). One more thing, she never got a pocket money as her mother would say, "I will provide you with everything you need or desire, why do you need a fixed amount everytime?" She agreed to it having calculated the pros and cons mathematically.
Then comes the adolescence - the age where children need special care without being chained.
And the girl got a friend in her mother. Of course she could never discuss her crush with her mom but indirectly she did that as well.
Okay, she got slapped as well, beaten up with 'comb' for all silly mistakes till 8-9 years "but never after that".
Having successfully crossed the adolescence age without any blunders, she then stepped into her early adulthood, the age from where an Indian girl confronts every idiotic comment regarding her marriage.
I just read on facebook - "Nobody is going to marry you if your roti is not round", and I could not stop myself from laughing out loud.
But nothing of that sort happened to this girl. She was never told to do any work at home whatever she did was her own will. The major focus was studies all the time. And tell me just one thing which she demanded and she did not get. Although sometimes the demand fulfillment took a year or two, but it happened.
And now, 2013, she is 21 years of age. She received a news that her grand mom wants her to get married now, this just left her baffled. Again Mother comes to her rescue and says, "You study and forget about everything else in this world. Whatever is going to happen will happen anyway, don't worry."
Trust me, she still don't do any of the household works unless her mom is ill or any emergency situation hops in.
Her brother too treats her like a princess and in every condition thinks about his sister that how will she cope up with life and guides her every time (like an elder brother).
There was a lot to say but when did I cover the journey of 1991 to 2013 I myself didn't realize.
But yes, the girl is thankful to God to have got such a great family!
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