Helpless

Not all our decisions are right; sometimes, one wrong choice can steal the smile from a person's life. Razia was 4 years old when her father passed away. Her mother raised her by working as a maid in people’s homes. Razia completed her matriculation from a government school. She wanted to study further, but her mother told her that they didn’t have enough money. When Razia was 16, her mother married her off to a factory worker. Razia settled into her new home, and life was going well. She had a son, whom she named Mubeen. She was cleaning the house when she received the news that her husband had been crushed by a factory machine. He had died, and Razia became a widow. She cursed her fate, hugged her one-year-old child to her chest, and returned to her mother's home. Nowadays, she works with her mother in people’s homes.