Letter P-Possibilities
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“What happened to me shouldn’t happen to you—I repeated that as a prayer inside me. Hoped you would find a girl- your classmates or colleagues agreeable to you. Your father played with us all our lives. I was dreaming you never fell for his marriage proposal. But I was scared to tell you, fearing for his reactions.”
The scene continues from here.
“Our lives are full of possibilities. We can also remain bonded to our past. We choose to look for the possibilities or stay
boned to the past.” Arjun threw a skewed
glance at his mother—she was talking like a philosopher. She had always kept a gloomy face like someone
who had lost their way on the journey and could not head off forward. How has she transformed into her present form
showing strength and glow?
“Your father is an incapable man, unable to take decisions
but pretentious and a typical Kerala man of patriarchy. He was a power monger having no manly power
but derived it through debilitating me. You may derive some trends from him—I don’t
blame you. A boy needs to learn to
behave like a man. In families, men fail
to take proper leadership. They mislead
their children.”
Does she mean that he followed his father and couldn’t be a
proper man? Does she mean he wasn’t
treating Silpa, giving her the credit she deserved?
“Do you mean I have not treated, Silpa well?
“Not at all. You had
differences. I feared whether you would
be able to get over them. I cannot blame
either you or her for that, but you two couldn’t build each other on an amicable
relationship. You had your priorities,
and she seemingly hers.”
Arjun was wary of disclosing how it went between Silpa and
him to his mother. In those days, he
hardly ever met his mother. He didn’t
want to bother her with his issues whenever he met her. She was reeling in the suffocation of her
marriage. His father saw his mother as a
destructive factor in his life and would have added his marriage issues to
discredit her. It was madness!
“But she was wicked too—instead of forwarding a divorce
using truthful reasons, she decided to invent lies. And for that turned good riddance for you.”
His mother has put it appropriately, and Arjun got the
relief.
“What happened to me shouldn’t happen to you—I repeated that
as a prayer inside me. Hoped you would
find a girl- your classmates or colleagues agreeable to you. Your father played with us all our lives. I was dreaming you never fell for his
marriage proposal. But I was scared to
tell you, fearing for his reactions.”
If he had known his mother’s mind through telepathy, Arjun
thought.
“You remember, he took us to a house to see a girl, and he
asked the driver to turn the car in front of her home. Your
father’s brother messaged him that the girl has a tainted past, and he changed
his mind. So, he went to another house
without apologising to the girl’s family.
I felt sorry for that girl.”
Arjun got the full story of that car turning drama now. He felt so embarrassed about this marriage
system of parents deciding what their children need in their life—what do they
know about their needs? And the children
act like slaves for family's sake!
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