STRONG GIRL

 

"STRONG GIRL"
BY KIRAN NAWAZ

    Hira, a sixteen years old girl, lived in a backward area. She is a hardworking student who studied day and night to achieve her goals. Her father is the only one who brings bread and butter for his family. Her mother is a simple woman who is just a house-wife. She has two siblings who are infants and her mother looks after them.

    One day, her father met an accident and got badly injured, and he got paralyzed. When she heard the news, her heart shattered into pieces, and she was on the verge of despair. She got the news on the phone. On that black day of her life, she thought nothing has left behind for them. Many questions were triggering in her mind. Who will pay her school fee? Who will help them to get her father’s treatment done? Who will look after her family? No one will look after them! She was bargaining internally for the rights of her family.

    Her dreams were broken into many pieces. How can she get them into a pattern of hope? On that night when she was fighting for her dreams and for basic rights, she thought she should do something for herself and for the basic rights of her family. She got up, looked into a mirror and wiped out her bloody tears, and thought why she should not be bread earner for my parents and siblings? While I and she chasing her dreams, she took a deep breath and slept.

    Next day, she went to her mother and tell her I will be your shelter do not be helpless and hopeless. She hugged her and said, “Do not demotivate your capabilities I am there for you”. God will help us to survive in this cruel world. She went to Food Street which is near their home town and begged some owners of the cafeteria to get her a little job that pays her enough that she can bring food for her family but all in vain.

   Some disgusted people around her who have a very cruel mentality tortured her with abusive language. She cried and thought about why she came to this brutal world. When she used to return home empty-handed, the hungry eyes of her siblings and the hopelessly broken heart of her parents led her to depression and guilt. One day a well-wisher came to her while she was in search of a job he offers her a waiter job opportunity in a cafeteria in which there was no profit but she accepts it with a good heart and believed that all of her struggles and hardships will pay off.  She went to her job regularly.

   People who came to the cafeteria looked at her leeringly. Scum boys used to pass disgusting comments. She looked up with a heavy heart and get back to duty again. After six months of struggling, she earned so well that she was bearing her home expenses easily and was saving some money to own a food stall one day.

    The day came when she bought a food stall near her home town. People who used to demotivate and neglect her in society came up at her stall and appreciate her for being the bread earner of the family. Day by day I was earning so much that she felt dark days have no more space in my life. Her father, who got paralyzed, getting good treatment in the hospital. Siblings, who rose up by her mother, were going to school. She felt like life has given her a new chance to relive all the moments with her family. She proves herself to all those people who demotivated her on dark days.