SILENCE OF THE LAMB

                SILENCE OF THE LAMB

Have you heard about the happily ever after tales? Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow white, Sleeping beauty are the protagonists of the famous fairy tales. We hear about them, see their stories being portrayed on the big screen and with our innocent heart dream that we end up having their life. Do fairy tales really happen in this real world, is there any happily ever after exist in this cruel world?

THE TRANSIENT PHASE

Twenty six years back a girl was born in one of the city of Utter Pradesh. Few years after her birth her father died in a road accident. Her mother was young therefore it was decided by their family to remarry the woman.

The woman was married to a man in Delhi who had two sons from his first marriage and his first wife also had a tragic end. Family of five started their life anew. Their union added a new member to the family. Now to two step brothers and one half brother she was the only sister.

The kids grew up together. Her mother started to pursue few courses and finally started a small business with her husband. Luck favoured them and finally their small business converted into one big business house. The money started to pour in. Meanwhile the kids grew at their own pace with still strangeness between their relationships. Nothing was said but the odd air was felt around.

The girl reached the age of twenty three and they started groom searching for her. Though a graduate in one of the foreign language and with remarkable body and features she still lack confidence and choose to remain silent in condition of distress. I have never seen her getting verbal to her thoughts.

Finally she was married to a very rich business man son from south Delhi. The boy was very handsome and had just finished his MBA. He was suppose to join his father business soon after. It was big pool side wedding and the money was spent lavishly and a huge dowry was given. They went to Europe tour on their honeymoon.

Every friend she knew and every cousin she had saw this amazing marriage ceremony and with awe and little jealousy thought how lucky she was to finally get such a rich and damn handsome prince charming. They thought finally, it doesn’t matter how it started but it is ending into one of the happily ever after fairy tales.

Two months after she got pregnant and before her first marriage anniversary she had a charming cute and healthy baby boy in her lap. It seems surreal as if the happiness was pouring out for her from heaven.

THE REAL PICTURE

Well the things were not the way it seemed. After honeymoon the first shock she got was that her husband was not interested to go and handle his dad business. At first she thought that since they were newly married therefore he wished to spend time with her but later she realized that it was his life style.

All he did was to sleep till late in morning, get up at two or three in the afternoon and then after completing his chores and having lunch he used to get out of the house to hang out with his brat friends and then get drunk and came back home very late. She talked to him about it but it was futile. But when she started going to the office and showed interest in business, this also didn’t went down with her in-laws and seeing the tension mounting she herself backed.

Her mother – in- law used to give her husband sixty or seventy thousand rupees for his lavish lifestyle, completely the contrast to the minimal amount that she received and she was made to give records of when and where that was spend. To ask to go to doctor was the big deal for her, as she was always advice to try homemade remedies. She was not allowed to go alone anywhere and her visits to her mother’s house was limited, that too under surveillance. Her cell phone shouldn’t remain busy whenever they call her and in case it was busy she was asked the whole details of who she was talking and what was the matter being discussed.

After she had a baby, she thought that things would change but instead it got worse. Her husband brought home the German shepherd dog in the name of “standards of high class”. The dog was a total mess and increased the work load on poor girl. She didn’t utter any word. It was only when her son started to suffer from skin allergies because of the dog she objected her presence in the house. All her plight full words fell on deaf ears.

Water reached overhead when during a heated argument her husband slapped her. The explanation that she gave for this irresponsible behavior is that he was drunk. This happened twice. Though her in – laws objected the boy hitting the girl but at the end of the day her father-in- law kept on enlightening about the duties of the good wife.

Each and everything happening to her was not communicated back to her mother and they remained under the illusion that their daughter was enjoying her happily ever after.

It was the turn of fate that one day her mother caught her in the heated argument with her husband on the phone. Afterwards when she talked to her and the things that were revealed in front of her, shocked her till her core. The tears started to flow from her eyes and the pain grasped her heart. But after all this the girl was ready to go back to her husband and wait for things to change for good. She didn’t want her marriage to break and was ready to pay any price for it even if she has to bear it all alone and silently.

Everyone tried to explain her but the “SILENCE OF THE LAMB”, still prevailed.

CONCLUSION

To remain silent and closing eyes over the injustice happening to you is not at resilience, it is just being coward. They say speech is silver and silence is gold, but in this case the silence is acting like a slow poison killing her brutally. The so called fairy tale totally turned diabolical.

FASCIAL SIGNS OF WEAKNESS

Raised eyebrows dividing the forehead into equal parts

Outer corner of eyes bending much downward from the equator line

Pinched nose

Receding chin

Thin lips

MORAL

You have to fight and earn for you’re happily ever after and for this you require tactful silence followed by words of resistance and perseverance.