Monday, August 22, 2005
I didn’t know a phone call could turn such a wonderful day so gloomy.
D called me up in the uni to break the wonderful news that she and F had MashAllah se cleared all ACCA papers. And I’ve never been as happy for them as I was today!! More phone calls followed after I came home and news about this person passing and that person failing kept coming in. and in the midst of planning the gifts and the party venue D dropped a bomb.
I have this very close friend A, and I’ve been friends with her since O levels. She is by far the liveliest person I’ve met and certainly best loved among us. but the problems she has at home and the kind of sick people she lives with makes me wonder how a person can be so depressed and so happy at the same time?? The only outlet she had was her friends at school and now at her university. And the news that D gave me was, that alcoholic dad of hers had picked her out of Uni, for good! How can a father or any other person do such a thing and that too on mere suspicions that her daughter is doing something wrong over there? She had all sorts of restrictions imposed on her before that. No phone, no cell, no internet, no friends coming in, no hanging out with friends, nothing! And that stepmother of hers, well, the less said about her the better. And for obvious reasons this piece of news has certainly made me much more sad than I was happy! May Allah give her patience in these hard times!