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The clock winked.

Natasha Grewal

    As always, Nina sat at her college coffeehouse during her break. It was a year ago when her husband of fifteen years broke out the news to her that he was seeing someone at work and didn’t want to be married to Nina anymore. For months, she was suspecting of him having an affair, but never said anything for the sake of her two kids. In India, she grew up in a lower middle class family. Her dad worked in a city while her mom with her two kids stayed in the village. He came home on the weekends only. While growing up, Nina felt that her brother always got better treatment than her. She had to quit school after 12th grade because her parents couldn’t afford to send both kids for post secondary education. In their mind, it was foolish to spend that kind of money on a girl child. Girls have no use for the family since they go and live in their husband’s family after marriage. A few days after she turned eighteen, her mom told her to dress up in a traditional Indian outfit as someone was coming to see her for marriage. She was not given any description of the suitor except that he belonged to a well to do family. That was enough for her parents. Nina’s mother instructed her to prepare tea and serve it with homemade Indian sweets to the guests in the living room where they were chatting with her parents. She was told to speak only to answer their questions in the most pleasant manner. The suitor and his parents liked her and she got married two months later. There was no other meeting with her husband prior to the marriage. A year later, she gave birth to a boy and then, a girl. She had spent her entire married life looking after her husband, his family and the kids. Now, the man who promised to take care of her in sickness and in health did not love her anymore and was in love with someone else. She was not sure if he ever loved her. Perhaps, she didn’t love him either. For the first six months after the divorce, Nina sank into depression and kept blaming herself for their failed marriage. Finally, a close friend of hers took her for counselling and it was the counsellor who advised her to enrol in courses at a community college. She always wanted to be a social worker and help abandoned children. Nina followed the advice and here, she was sitting at a coffeehouse of her college. She looked at the clock and it winked at her. The clock was trying to tell her to move on and not to look back just like itself. In that moment, Nina realized that finally, she could be herself and live her life the way she wanted, not the way her husband or father would like her to live. Nina gathered her stuff and embraced the new journey ahead of her.



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