Re: Orphans
My father passed away when i was only 11. He worked for Wapda in pakistan as an engineer, one day he was on-site (working on a co-workers assignment, doing a favor type of a thing), showing an employee how to measure etc...and well on site of course the wattage of electricity was 100 times more thn what we have at home...skipping some details here...he got electric shocked from the wires running overhead.
96% of his body was burned...he lived for a week...which the dr. said was a miracle.
now how did i handle this??? well i was only 11 and i didn't understand why were ppl crying so much, i mean i cried too but in my head i was think "now there is one less person to feed," but i later realize that the person who was feeding all of us was gone :(
thanks to my nani and mamu we moved to US within two years and have been here since thn.
it has been difficult for us, but we have handled it fine i think.
I remember when a friends nana passed away and her mom kept saying i have no parents now...that thought scares me the most.