Besides she started saying 'Oh my college' pointing towards the college. When everybody laughed I felt very childish and embarrassed. Then I said bring her to the college, wherever you go, so that her memories also remain fresh in the track of connected memories. After she went out, BCA madam, who met her at the door, came to me in the office and said that she was my student, a very lady-like girl. She completed her degree with great difficulty. She was so sad that she would never raise her head in the class and never speak. Suppose the tongue is not in the mouth.
His mother completed his education with hard work and easy money. His father died many years ago. After finishing the conversation, Madam left the office and I felt relieved to think that thankfully now there is peace on her face and confidence in her behavior.
In a short while the certificate was ready and she came to the office to collect it. She seemed happy. I wished her 'all the best' for her future but she still wanted to share something unsaid. It seemed as if she wanted to lighten the burden of her heart by telling about her journey between the sorrow of her past and the hope of tomorrow.
He told that his father died due to an injury seven-eight years ago. At that time both of us siblings were very young. The house was in the name of father, grandmother and grandfather. Uncle lived separately but when grandmother came to us, she used to create a lot of terror. Then I did not go to college for many days, but when my grandmother went back, my mother used to send me to college. Mother used to keep quiet because she was facing a lot of difficulties. My father and grandmother did not allow me to get married outside.
Mother had the support of her uncles. When they got the contract of a part of the land, they would ask about our well-being on the pretext of giving some money to mother. She told that many times due to differences, grandmother would stop her from studying. Then mother would calculate the money and send her to college. It is rightly said that sorrows cannot be sold and happiness cannot be bought. Mother herself had studied about ten classes.
She was surrounded by worries and lost in thoughts. But she knew that without education a girl will not get a good proposal. I had heard “Bhavan de na daj wich ghaane, vidya pad de babala” but God disarmed me here too. Now the responsibility of both the parents was on mother.
Someone has rightly said that God created mother but he was not happy after creating her, rather he regretted it because mother started doing all the work of God. God's work was to love, she started doing it. God's work was to protect, she started doing it. God's work was to bless, mother started doing that too. So in no time someone else became the employee and he became unemployed.
I asked her if she was happy now and she started telling me how this relationship was formed. She slowly took a deep breath and said, “I remember my father's words, that elders should always be greeted by saying Saat Shri Akaal.” So whenever I met elders, I used to call them with respect and politeness. Similarly, when I pass by my fields, my uncle who is my father's friend, seeing him sitting outside, calls Fatih everyday. One day someone was sitting with them and said 'Badi Bibi is a girl, whose daughter is she?'
On the advice of uncle, she said, 'I want this relationship for my son living in America, you talk.' When uncle and aunty spoke, grandmother again got stuck. Aunty and aunt were also involved in making plans. They talked about the relationship by involving the people of the village, but they did not stop calling to America. Because my uncle and aunt were there, my in-laws did not listen to anyone against me.
I don't know if it was mother's hard work that God still makes good people, my father-in-law consulted from America and invited his son. Father and son came home, talked to my mother-in-law on the phone and gave shagun in a simple ceremony. After that I started talking to all my family members. The boy also had no arrogance. After six months, they all came to Sial for holidays and my in-laws paid for my clothes, jewelry and wedding expenses. Now I am filing my form, will see how much time it takes.
Someone has rightly said that no one is so rich that he can buy the past, but he is also not so poor that he cannot change the future. I asked God what else do you want, then he said that you just have to go and call your mother and Choti. I said, 'Wahiguru will definitely listen to you, don't worry.
Who says that daughters are any less than sons? They keep their parents' pain close to their heart, no matter how many trials they have to face. As she left, the heart blessed her a lot that may God fulfill all your wishes, may he bless the lamp of your faith.