*Letter from the son of a rape victim and a rapist* “Since the day I was born, I have been judged. Hey, your father was a rapist, you are a potential rapist too. Your mom was a rape victim? I am so sorry to know about that. I mean how could your own father rape your mother? Oh did he rape your mother and she became pregnant with you? Nobody knows the real me. They’ll either fear me or they’ll sympathize with me. But you know what? I am just like you. You look at my mom and pity her. You look at that lady and all you can think of is that, she is a rape victim. No, she has a lot more sides to her than just being a rape victim. She is a great cook. She is a wonderful single mother; she is a very good cartoonist. She wakes up early every day, cooks puri bhaji for some fifty odd people, packs them into dabbas, drops me to the bus stop and then goes to deliver the dabbas. She does it four times a day. A similar scar on our souls has brought us close. We talk about politics, about the nation, about God, about religion and everything under the sun. We both have dreams. She sketches cartoons and sends it to the local newspaper every week. She hopes they’ll accept her sketches one day and publish them. I want to become a musician but I will become an engineer first because I don’t know if my music will be able to pay for my mother’s medical expenses. I want to take her for a good spa every week and a good holiday every year. Someday I would like to have a girlfriend too; a girl who would love me for what I am and not judge me because of my father. I am trying to forgive my father. I am trying to push out the hate I have for him. Mom says that until I do that, I will never be able to grow as a person. He raped my mother, and traumatised her. I don’t know if I will be able to forgive him but I am trying, for the sake of my own self. Morals, principles, rules, generalisations and assumptions look good in science books; not when you try that on a person. Next time, you see someone, don’t judge, try to know them. You never know when you might be taken by surprise because sometimes the darkest souls have the brightest stories. Your sincerely, A human (not the son of a rape victim or a rapist) --Sreyasi Verma
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 08:22:39 +0000
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