'RELATIVES' are meant to be the supportive ladders in the most difficult moments of life. But, unfortunately that does not take place in this era of selfishness. Some of us have indeed learnt the bitter lessons of realities from our very own relatives who seem to be so righteous from the inside but are rather the most cunning souls to be found. Their egoistic attitude is like an incurable disease in them.They feign sympathy with the standing public and plot against us from behind our backs. Let me narrate some of the unforgettable side-effects of trusting such relatives who had gone to a greater extent in destroying the peace of my mind as well as that of my family......
All was well when my beloved father was with mom and me. But, everything just tumbled down the moment...he left us for his heavenly abode in the year of 2005. Some of my so-called relatives took advantage of our lonely situation and started harassing us in one way or the other. They started turning hostile towards us. They began showing up their true colours of evil-mindedness.
One of my mother's cousin sister named as Mrs. SALLY JOHNSON plotted against us with false accusations that mom and I were living the life of prostitution in the city. In this way, she became quite successful in distancing other relatives from us. Not only this.. she went to the extent of separating mother and daughter from one another. She would say things against me to my mother and then practiced vice versa with me. She wore the mask of a helping mentality and bought me one month's grocery in order to extract personal details of my mother from me. She wanted to know about the details of my father's money. She wanted to extract revenge from us by shaming us in front of others.
I had aimed to become an IAS Officer and my preparations were going on amidst the many difficulties of life. I did a huge mistake of revealing it to this aunt of mine. She tried her best in pulling my legs and brought down so many personal problems in my family which in turn distracted me from my studies. She feigned sympathy towards me when I was mentally disturbed by the happenings occurring in my life at an unexpected hour.
Aunt Sally and her husband were the ones who had spiked up my interest for the wrong reasons. They talked me into calling up my other relatives and demanding them family property. They encouraged me to go against my own mother as they referred to her as the lunatic woman who was wasting her life on earth. On the other hand, they spiced up the minds of my other relatives and spread all false rumours about me and my mom. It was their sole purpose to create much confusion and misunderstandings in order to make others abandon us.
Apart from all this, her younger brother-in-law had misbehaved with my mother by giving blank calls and other phone calls polished with vulgar talks. This happened especially when my dad was in his last days. Aunt Sally had poisoned the mind of my grandmother (my mom's mother) in such a way that grandma had called me up and asked me to file a false FIR against my mother and to abandon her. I had just stepped in my Senior College at that time...
My mom was having a tough time in those days as she was facing her moments of a physical condition called as 'MENOPAUSE'. As a result, she had her own mood swings which were wrongly misinterpreted as 'mentally ill'. Some people had even suggested to get her treatment from a Psychiatrist. It created such a stir in our lives. The milky lies of my aunt encouraged me for the wrong reason and made me develop a hatred towards my own mother. I became a rebel at home. This resulted in heated arguments and stole the peace of our home.
Later on, I was thrown away by this very aunt of mine as she found nothing satisfactory in my revealings about my family secrets. She dismissed me as a loose character and black-marked me as the 'lost sheep'. This was the same woman who had asked me to join a job and to hide the details of my salary from my own mother. And now, she crumpled me up like a used up toilet paper. This was indeed an opening for me towards the bitterness of life especially when such evil-minded kinds interrupt the privacy of our lives just because they are blood-related to us.....
Another version of my other relative throws much light on the fact that nobody respects relations of today as all are quite selfish about their own lives. In a particular year, mom and I had decided to live with our relatives who were residing in the same city of ours. I was quite overjoyed at the prospect of staying with my nephew and niece. Everything was going well for a few months. Things started changing as our money started drying up.
The family members began to have behavioural changes. My mother was expected to cook food for the entire family including the dogs. I was falsely accused of clogging the filter holes of the bathroom with my hairs after my bath. My cousin brother made his daughter to turn against me and encouraged her to keep calling me disrespectful names. As a result, she started calling me 'a dog' whenever I passed by her in the house. It was such a tormenting pain to bear all these hurtful actions from my own so-called people. Each day, I had to face scornful glee and deceitful looks. As a result, we shifted away from them to another house.
In short, the word 'RELATIVES' makes me nauseous enough because of the bitterness experienced with such blood-related ones who had literally shamed the fact that they belonged to me as my own people. In context to this, I would like to quote from the Bible in which it was mentioned that Jesus was neither received nor welcomed in his hometown by his very own people. Well, this doesn't mean that all of my relatives are bad. There are even those good ones who had stood up with us in every thick and thin of life.
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(This has been penned by Me keeping in mind the mental trauma I had undergone due to the inhumane behaviour of some of my relatives. Unfortunately, I am still blood-related to them and can't erase them from the family picture. I have forgiven their misdeeds towards me and my family but what they did to us still remains etched on my memory. In fact, I thank them for making me understand their inner intentions which have greatly helped me to beware such wolves in sheepskin. Henceforth, I will continue to maintain a long distance from them and will never ever allow them to interrupt our privacy anymore. And, yes of course. ... GOD will surely repay them for what they have done to us... )
-(Jolsna)
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