Shashank pov:
Easy was the word my elder sister used to define me,but is it really that easy to survive as the only boy in my family? I don't know, maybe yes, it was easy for me compared to what girls go through, but not too easy.
Being born as a boy has its own curse which I can't define because everyone has a different life. I was born after my 3 elder sisters, which gives me so much responsibility since the day I cried for the first time. Yes, I was just born a minute ago and they were already building so much expectations from me.
I heard from my sister what my grandmother said while lifting me up in her arms. Finally our varish(heir) is born who will look after his family and will take over his grandfather's legacy.
My sisters used to go to gov school which was near our house.
While I was sent to the city at the age of 8 for studies living alone on my own in a hostel, far away from my family, wasn't I supposed to enjoy my childhood and play around.
My father used to visit me when we had ptm in our school but slowly slowly the cheerful kid inside me died because my father never used to ask about my health or how im doing, but if i topped in the class or not.
I once didn’t top in my class because I fell sick and that day I realised if I topped I’m the best son god blessed them with and if i don’t I’m the most useless son who has put dirt in their name.
Everyone used to visit their family while i was asked not to because if i visit them i will not be able to focus on my studies so me and my roommate who also doesn't visit house because his stepmother doesn’t like him so we used to stay in hostel.
I turned 18 and passed my 12th with highscore,I went home to surprise my parents but there is a totally different scenario going on which changed my life in a way which you will see in further chapters.
So stay tuned for more. See how I almost gave up on my life until that day when I met her,my tulips.
Aradhya pov:
Life isn't the same for everyone, at least not for me who fights her dream every second, every minute just like how my heart beats every sec for survival but fighting from strangers wasn’t as hard as fighting with your own parents.These are two different things so is my life.
Is being a girl a curse or blessing? I don't know.
When i was little i used to thing it was a cursed, being caged in just like a bird in cage “alive but lifeless because her feathers are cut off so she doesn't fly toward her freedom” and I'm that bird who wants to fly high in the sky leaving all the worry in ground but as i said I’m that bird who is trapped in the cage because in our society girls should be caged or she will drag down her whole family name.
I always thought about how easy society is for men. From childhood I saw how they were treated so superior like they were born different. Doing nothing but giving orders.
In my village girls aren’t allowed to study, so do I. It's not like I'm any different from them.
I always watch my brother going to school getting new clothes and eating whatever he likes while here no one knows what is my fav food.
I don’t hate my brother because he always teaches me whatever he learned in school secretly if our father got to know about it. We are doomed. I also don't hate my parents also, but i’m disappointed with their different behaviour. How can they treat us so differently? Did I borned differently or my brother was dropped by God himself?
Only if i was born as a son not as a daughter i would also get the love from my parents as i always envied so much, but then i realised being born as a girl wasn't the fault but being born in a family like this was my fate.
I saw a family who were visiting their parents with their kids and I saw a girl around my age in her fathers arm both of them laughing and giggling about something the girl said to her father and that's when something heal inside me which they never broke.
But something unexpected happened which changed my life and here I’m writing my story.
“THE LOST CHILDHOOD”
JOIN ARADHAYA IN HER STORY AND LEARN WHAT'S THE TURNING POINT IN ARADHAYA LIFE HOW AND WHEN SHE FLEW OFF FROM HER CAGED JUST LIKE HOW SHE ALWAYS WISHED FOR.
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