My Mother died in 2000 when I was 4 years old. I have an older brother and younger sister. After my mother's death, we were being sent to an orphanage, so that the burden of responsibility would not be increased on the relatives. My father was very surprised to see the condition of the orphanage, when my grandfather took him forcefully to get us admitted to the orphanage. He refused at the same time and said that I will raise all three children alone. My father had a love marriage so he never thought of a second marriage. After seeing the rude behavior of relatives, my father decided to leave Jaipur and we came to live in a small place far away from Jaipur. We left Jaipur in 2000 and left all nasty relationships behind.
Worrying about the future of the three of us, we were admitted to a hostel. We have spent 15 years in the hostel. Our childhood was spent with great grief due to poverty and not being privileged. Our school fees were filled into pieces.
But with much hard work and immense difficulties my father became financially strong and maintained a good standard around the people. Seeing a financially competent person, all the relatives started trying to have a good relationship with my father and they succeeded.
One thing that bothers me the most is that even after all this, today my father and my siblings are forgetting everything and wants to maintain relationship with those people and try to convince me to forget everything. But I am not able to see belonging to those people and I would never like to maintain that relationship.
Some people are like a gust of wind, they change direction when needed.
I still remember the time when relatives of all the children used to call from home, but nobody bothered to call us or they never came to see us in all these years except dad. And now they come to maintain their relationship with us without any invitation.
I have not yet kept a relationship with them and over time I am getting more distant from them.
