Value Of Relation

A lady boarded into the bus in which I was already inside. I was looking at her face constantly while going to school. Our eyes met twice or thrice. There was a different grief on her face what I could see. And don't know why I literally wanted to help her, then I saw, she was coming towards me.

"What happened? Why are you watching me" she asked me in English language but I could not speak English fluently like her so I answered in Hindi that she looked quite sad therefore I had been watching her. With energy voice she said, "are you mad?" Then turned and started watching pointless objects in bus but I was still examining her. "Didi,,,,,,,you can tell me if there is something wrong with you, what you can't reveal, I can help you." She sniffed twice, I was sad. "how can you!" She exclaimed. I didn't answer just turned to watch outside the bus from window. After a while she spoke in slight voice that she did love marriage and it was the biggest mistake of her life. I still didn't speak but responded through my eyes.

She continued to spoke about her life. When she was a student of fine art 3rd year then met with a boy who came in her cousin's marriage they met on ganga Jeffy first time. They fell in love with each other.

Only one drawback she could find in boy that the boy was only 10th pass. But he was a tall and handsome person who did his business in Delhi. And she also belonged to an educated family in Banaras. They both were from the same brethren so easily could get married. After marriage, her life converted into a girl who has to listen to flung of her mother in law at random, keep herself in a veil and who was not

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allowed to explore even a step from doorstep without permission of her mother-in-law. From a girl who would wear jeans in Banaras and spend eight hours out of her house without any permission, she was also allowed to make male friends.

She had told me everything in 15 minutes then she said in a husky voice that "Now can you help me?"

"Yes, I wanna say just a simple thing that you have been facing up it from 5 years. why? Because you knew that your husband loves you a lot. Yap..... I agree that rituals are different but you did very good work without happiness. Ahhh,,,, can't say but you should protest against it. I gave her a peculiar answer.

She said sniffly "you are right actually but you don't know that my mother in law loves me more than my husband, and the reason for my sadness is her sickness, she is in hospital and I'm going to meet her. Yes, she was strict but she made me learn many lessons to live socially. But the main problem is my husband who never respects his mother, even father too... ."

She stopped speaking for a while then continued "my husband wants to stay separate without our family because of me. I had been telling him to be separated but now I don't....." With a long face she said.

I stared in her eyes and suddenly said you should deny being separate, your husband loves you a lot, he'll agree. I must say you should...."

Tears can be seen in her eyes which she was trying to hide she whispered 'Tank you,,,,' sat on a seat.

I got down from the bus and told everything to my friend Rajesh. The important thing was I could consider the value of relation, the first time in my life