Sneha

I last met Sneha in a mall at a fixed time , after a call from her in the morning..
actually could not recognise her voice ..it was squeaky and she attributed it to bronchitis..
the first look we had at each other i could hardly stop making a sound ..she has changed ..i meant not physically ..she was the same tall girl but what has happened here was some thing different..

There was no smile on her face ..the bright energy which she would ooze out was missing..
she would not look at me directly into eyes ..she would not answer directly my questions as we were famous one time for having a frank talk ..she would look away..and once a pakka hyderabadi she muses at the changes in the city with wonder ..which would make me ask if Pune so far from hyd? she has no answer ..

I later came to know from some other friend that the husband had a sick sister , working MIL , and she was acting like an under maid in the house . i wondered what happened to all the love her husband was showering on her in the engagement and after marriage period..SIL had a oestersporasis ..and MIL was tooo busy to share work at home ..Is this what girls are married for ?
Every word she talk now is combined now with her facts of SIL and MIL, I ask her how is she? And she looks at me with far away eyes and says ‘Kb sleep well, this is one thing which will become a scarcity in future …And I stare at her with a blank expression …

and my friend instead of resisting it had accepted everything , leaving job , washing clothes at home , making break fast , lunch dinner ..a girl who had never had to do dishes is daily doing them now ..hard to imagine…

As far as I know Sneha was smart , active , intelligent , famous , tall , beautiful and almost every one knew her from college , she had plans for everything for the future ..she made people wonder with her insight of future ..she had friends from 3 and 4 year which made her more aware of the problems of later years ..she talked about the solutions for them ..and held every one in calss at awe..

She toiled so much for 4 years that she was placed in the 80+% group at the end of it..she 's done it in all aspects ...Actually it was like a race where she had to come first and she did ..??

After a search of one year her parents found the so called right guy ..in some software company getting some good 'K' and pretty decent to look at..what more can any one ask ..for all the plans she would make i wonder what she talked to this guy when she first met him at 22 ..In the first place did she have an idea of what to ask and what to be done ? Was she prepared for it ...i guess no one asked her that...

She got married and now the marriage is just 2 years old...there she is now with a sick family ..a 'mute' own family who are not doing anything for her well being..


I hope things go well for her in future and she gets the courage to break the shackles and live life with more gutso and energy , than she is now .