The point of breaking down

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The point of breaking down

by

Ankita Majumder, Sem I, 2023




Every person has a limit of tolerance.  And when this limit is surpassed, it creates chaos. A chaos so destructive that the feelings of those who are hurt due to this chaos can never be mended. 

And that’s exactly what he did.

She was extremely sick today. He came and asked if she had made some food for him. To which she said that she is sick, how can she. He did said it’s okay but she noticed how his facial expressions changed.

After that with that sickness in her body, she made him a chapathi and gave him some lentil soup to eat with it. He told her that he shouldn’t have asked her about food and started to blame her for not making four breads instead of two for him during breakfast.

His reason being that If she had given him four breads to eat during breakfast then he wouldn’t have asked her about food right now.

With that the husband and wife started quarreling amongst them. One thing lead go another which caused the husband to throw the plate of half eaten food on the ground. He called her with slangs. He pushed her towards the door in rage.

The food splattered on the wall, on the ground surrounding the husband, a little inside the temple room. He got up and went to another room while pushing his daughter to a side.

The wife had asked him a simple question causing him to throw away the plate in rage. The question was why would you ask a sick person if they have made something or not?

No. In this household, it doesn’t matter if the wife is sick. She has to make everything properly for the husband. The husband can’t be on a empty stomach for long period of time. 

After the argument the wife went to take a shower and the husband came to daughter  saying that he couldn’t find a plate to eat last night and that the wife was blabbering about the same thing repeatedly.

The daughter wanted to say that it doesn’t matter if he couldn’t find a plate but he shouldn’t have thrown the food away today.

When the husband and wife were fighting the daughter’s heart was beating at an unusually high rate. Her whole body was slightly shaking. If she didn’t hold onto the walls of the room, she might have fallen down on the ground.

Every person has a breaking point. For how long can a person go on like this? For how long does a wife have to suffer in the hands of her husband?

The family’s financial condition is not so good. But can this became a ticket for the husband to act with the wife accordingly based on his money status. Like when he doesn’t have any money, he would love her, and would talk sweetly to her. But when he does have money he won’t even consider her as a person, let alone his wife. Why is it so?

How can a husband act like this to the wife? The woman who stayed with him through every thick and thin of life, who always supported him during his low phases, how can he throw the food that she made, while she is sick, on to the ground without giving it a second thought?

They say that after coming to her in-laws house, the husband is similar to deity or is the “pati parmeshwar” to the wife but is it really the truth?

Because if it was the truth then shouldn’t the husband respect, support, love and cherish the wife just like how lord Shiva and lord Krishna would do for Maa Parvati and Maa Radha?

He said he respects lord Krishna from the core of his heart then how can he disrespect his wife to such a level?

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