Tuesday, 7 January 2020

Tragedy of Unusual Parenting


This is the story based on real incident that I had seen closely. So there was this day in our colony when a new family were shifting. The family consist of only 3 members a father, a mother and a 10 year old boy.. It seemed like small family happy family scenario but who knew the actual truth.

The small boy's pet name was 'saaney'. Saaney was a little reserved and sophisticated child in comparison to other child. He was never seen in the playground with other child. There was a noise of dispute hissing around the locality regularly. And the dispute would be between Saaney's mom and dad.This clearly showed that the family is not a happy family. This daily activity had  affected Saaney a lot. He never socialized and interacted with anyone, anywhere. His class mate had said that he used to be bullied because of his silent nature. Instead of playing with others, he would prefer to  watch them through a window.

One day Saaney's mom was scolding him saying "you did not study hard and failed the exam and therefore your father gets drunk everyday and hence we end up having a long dispute." And Saaney with teary eyes was requesting his mom to stop beating him. After some moment, Saaney went to terrace crying  and sat there for a long time. He was sweeping his tears with his sleeves and when I entered there he left the terrace in a hurry and went to his room.

This was happenning on a daily basis. There I got to know the reason behind hiss introvert nature. One day his mom requested me to give him some tuitions and I happily agreed to do so. Here I got more time to know him vividly. I used to notice that he was always disturbed with the surrounding. He was afraid of really small things. Through his parents, I got to know that he was going to be sent to Darjeeling upto his 10th class in a hostel. They told me that they will visit him once in a month. Even I thought that it would be better for him to say far from such negative environment so he can concentrate on his studies. I asked him whether he can live far away from parents. Sketching on his drawing copy, he replied "What can I say when my parents don't want me to live with them." This was a very hard hitting reply from a child which was unexpected for me.

As usual Saaney was being tortured by his mother. I thought to have some words with her and give Saaney the freedom he deserves. As I was going towards his room, I saw him running upward through stairs. His mom was shouting his name and commanded to come back to room. After that I ran towards him as well and what I saw was  bizzare. Saaney jumped off the building from terrace and banged his head reaching ground. I was in a shock and when I went down to rescue he had already died. Ground was full of blood and in his hand was a small note written "Mom, Dad I'm sorry. I was clueless and cannot control myself." At the moment his father came with a cake and a greeting card written "Happy Birthday Saaney." This incident gave me sleepless nights.


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