Life and its duties

Riya, is 24 married and stays in UK along with her husband. Life was good to her and she is a chirpy, talkative girl who always has something to talk about..….be it her hair,mom in law, mom, husband, work etc. She had topics on her finger tips. She has been married since two years now and she is a home maker wanting to pursue her career in the IT industry.

One day in the morning she realized she was pregnant, inspite of repeatedly testing it, the result was positive. The first thing she feels is a rush of happiness and she rushes towards the phone to call her husband and tell him the good news coz she feels he deserves to know first.

She puts the receiver down and has no clue how to feel and what has to be done next. Her husbands reactions was indifferent and calm and he refused to discuss the issue further until he gets back home from work.

Finally its five in the evening and Varun appears to be very tired and he tells Riya that the child has to be aborted since they have no sufficient funds to raise the child. Not that they have any financial crisis, but its just that they cannot afford a child right now.

Riya would have never opted for it, but she had to abort the child because she had to consider her husbands feelings towards the whole issue. Obviously both their folks were unaware of the issue. Her mom in law right now wants to have a grandchild and she is pestering Riya for a grandchild. Riya cannot really explain anything to anyone because of who she is as a person and also because of the fact that she is not just a daughter to her parents now but someone’s wife and daughter in law as well.

Sometimes, we cannot be who we really are because of all the social constraints and because of the all the duties life has to offer us. Sometimes, we have to compromise and forget who we really are and try to fulfill our duties towards people we are related to  .Sometimes, we have to do things which we never dreamt of doing it. Sometimes, life takes you by surprise and you never know what will be your next course of action. Sometimes, we do what we have to unwillingly and then the memory still haunts us.

Sometimes we wonder what right do we have to take away someone else’s life? Also we wonder why did we actually do what we did? We never find answers to these questions despite thinking about it a million times.

Sometimes you know that you are guilty?

But the fact remains that the child is gone forever, a child who never gotta see this beautiful world. A child whose life was snipped and Riya will never ever be the same again.This memory of a child will haunt her till the rest of her life and she will always regret it for the days to come.

A word of advise:

This was my first unofficial blog and I committed the mistake of asking my friend to upload the blog in his webpage without giving it much of a thought … and I repent it coz it really hurts to see someone else being applauded for the blog even if he/she is a good friend of yours. I kept telling myself that “Its no big deal”, its after all a blog, but despite my many attempts, to ignore it .I couldn’t. Hence a word of caution “Never ever ask your friend to upload your blog on his webpage coz sooner or later you will regret it”