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Dear best friend, I wish I had listened to you when you said that he is not good, I wish my parents had listened to you when the groom side created a scene on the wedding day for money, I wish we had backed out of the wedding.
Ever since I can remember, I had several friends, but very few who were close. When you came into my life as my best friend you treated me like a daughter even though you were just 5 years older, raising me, teaching me, and most importantly tolerating all my tantrums.
I guess I never thanked you enough for being there, for making me feel worthy of such a friendship. When I was sick, you brought me food (though it was terrible :-P), but still, it’s the gesture that counts. When I was facing issues at work, you guided me, when I fought with people you helped me calm down and explained my mistakes without making me feel bad about them.
When my parents were organizing my wedding, you were the first person I approached. I was clueless, unsure what to do or ask the prospective groom, and you responded, “Be yourself!!” when everyone else was telling me to modify my appearance, talk respectfully, and be the perfect bride.
I wish I had listened to you when you said that he is not good, I wish my parents had listened to you when the groom side created a scene on the wedding day for money, I wish we had backed out of the wedding.
I had to travel to his house, knowing that I was about to marry a man who opposed everything I stood for. I was nothing more than a money-making machine for him and his family. Because of his insecurities about me talking to a guy, I gradually began to avoid you after we married. I didn’t comprehend his intentions at the time, and he had already separated me from my family, so I stopped communicating with you, but you continued to check up on me.
But, like all good things, our friendship also had to come to an end. Your newlywed wife thought I was a detriment to your relationship, and you had no choice except to back her up. I apologise for whatever problems I may have created in your life. The calls were fewer, and I began to feel depressed. The sense of being alone, having a mentally abusive husband who went to great lengths to tear me apart, and then losing you, my one source of support.And then I lost my baby in early pregnancy, that was the last nail in my coffin.
I had no choice but to do it, to get away from it all. I couldn’t tell anyone because you or anyone else would have intervened, but I couldn’t continue going like this. I sent out an apology to everyone and consider this my apology to you. If there is a way to communicate from there, I will let you know. I wish this time I am born as your daughter because I know that you wouldn’t ditch me!
The ending of this story is purely fictional.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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