''A USELESS LIFE IS AN EARLY DEATH''

‘’Amna! Hide all these papers and gums before your friend arrive’’ I heard this before I stepped in. I was wonderstruck! What they are trying to hide from me? It takes few seconds that I overcome my expressions of astonishment and then I made an entrance. I enjoyed the day as I used to. No mark of know ness on my face I made.

On the very next day I came to know from her neighbors that my friend needs money desperately for her mother’s medication of serious illness but she had not told me about that. I felt very dejected. I have no doubt that I want to help them out and thanks to her mother whom I was so indebted for the great hospitality which she has entertained me whenever I visited her. As I came to knew I tried to collect money as much as I can, I asked for help in my family I did what ever I can do without telling my friend, I knew that it would hurt her as she was so diffident and reserved. Her father had died several years ago and there was no one who could help them in such a plight. She was the only daughter her mother has. At last I have collected some money which can at least help her to visit the doctor of good repute to let her know from which disease she was suffering from? I felt reluctant at that moment how could I endow her with the money as she has not told me about ailment of her mother and that was the mistake I have done. I was too late to reach her. Her mother has died due to Blood Cancer. Till now I can’t hide my tears. I failed to help her on time. I miss her lovely smile and deliberation. May ALLAH rest her soul in serenity .

It is well said by Charles Lamb: ‘A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature,a piece of impertinent correspondency, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity.... He is known by his knock’’. -