Another Life For Her

TOTAL INDEPENDENCE

"2014"

Imane's beauty attracts a lot of people especially those who want a young beautiful wife. She refused a lot of marriage proposals, her mother felt worried.

“Dear, are you in love?” she added “are you dating someone in secret?” she asked her daughter suddenly while she was washing dishes. Imane offensively answered: “no, I am not. I don’t have time for rubbish”, then she turned her face to her mom’s saying: “what are you searching for again, Zahra?" her mother preferred to keep silent and go to deep thinking.

Imane whispering in a scared tone “the last man who proposed to me was handsome and elegant but his dressing was clichés. My standards are high than this. The one before him had problems with his character, I don't want him also... after a moment, oh God they were really good. I have to find other reasons to refuse, I can’t just say that I am a ... I can’t even say it to myself.

 During the very next few months, Imane's family was practising a kind of pressure on her to choose one of the men to get married. They even managed for an engagement day when all the family and relatives would be there. They have chosen for her the most relevant man of the two, according to them of course. Also, they haven't forgotten to inform the other man that they are sorry and the girl has already chosen her life partner. It is all about fate. Imane is still unconscious about the fast development of the new events, what’s going on here for God sake! She felt their cruelty; she wasn’t born to obey them or their random choices. “I am a human being; it’s enough to make them reconsider their beliefs”.

“I am not ready yet, feel my pain”.

“My partner or my husband, I should choose him basing on many things, we should choose each other, and it’s not enough that he wants me so that I obey with blind eyes and closed lips”.

“It’s not my destiny to live like this”    

She remembered her ‘intended’ husband saying: “I like the fact that you are doing well in studies, but I can’t let my wife collaborate with the other s*x”, do you know? “Wife, life partner and mother fit you” “your intelligence shines in home and how you make it warm”. She understood immediately the real meaning of his words;Imane can read in between lines. She was able to see the limitations she has been going to live with. She is certain that it’s the moment of truth, the moment when she must reorder her priorities.

 “Think about you, it is not bad to think about yourself from time to time”.

The most important thing in this life is to be a “scenarist” of your own life, never be an actor. Make decisions. Take risk and responsibility. Don’t let others impose things on you. Show attitude, make a change.

Imane gathered all that she had and bought a plane ticket to another country, she booked for a new life.  

“Sorry everyone, sorry but I can’t”.

    Aisha the refuge started visiting Imanein her dreams in which they had deep conversations.

Aisha: “how are you Imane!? Last time we met you were tired”.

Imane: “yes! I feel lonely, I am searching for serenity! I don’t want wealth, I don’t want anything.”

Aisha: "poor Imane! I told you from the beginning, your destination for serenity is already known. You just have to find it yourself". God is always here for us, for our prayers and our repentance with conditions; HONESTY and LOYALTY. When we ask Allah for forgiveness and help, we should be honest and we should keep our word that we won't do the same mistakes and sins again. We should consider them as lessons. Allah mercy is powerful and bigger than human peccadilloes. Allah does not need our worship yet we need his mercy. Worshipping with complete faith that Allah is seeing us and knowing our internal intentions is our salvation”.

Imane: “you mean that I have to perform ablution and talk to Allah in prayers, I know he won’t reject me, I just need to show my intention to change, right!?”

Imane with a strange voice addressing Aisha: “are you following me even in my day, Aisha? I think you come earlier this time.

“Not really my dear Imane, I am not a ghost or a creature that appears only at night. I am your true friend, remember that. I come whenever you need me, I feel your need” Answered Aisha.

"I like your colourful dress; it is the best choice for this season. Can I ask you for something, my dear friend?

“Yes! Go ahead”.

“Don’t go anymore. Stay with me! I need you beside me all the time”.

“I am afraid that I can’t my freesia. I can visit you only when you really need my opinion”.

“Ah, you leave again. Please come back soon”.

    Doctors around the world have treated thousands of prostitutes, affirm that inexperienced minors are susceptible to contamination, a high percentage of them have serious health problems, and the highest percentage of them became alcohol and drugs addicts. It must be added that despite precautions, they do become pregnant from time to time, and they are generally operated on in bad conditions. Prostitutes are exploited by everyone around them. These statistics are very old in western countries, which have witnessed a sense of responsibility and awareness about this topic, but I want to emphasise that it still exists all over the world. Prostitutes are obliged to accept these conditions because of their poverty, or familial situation, lack of emotional security in their families. Most of them are teenagers who do not know what are they doing in such an environment. There is a lack of serious actions and arbitrariness on behalf of authorities, Lack of medical checkups. We are all involved in this; we should react to stop such crimes on those girls. Childhood and adulthood are in danger.

"For clients of p**********n, I cannot assume if they are even aware of their s****l needs, I cannot understand their insistency on having virgin girls in beds, they want minor girls. Don’t destroy other’s life for your s****l desire, for God sake. Even in p**********n, one should have ethics. Don't make the bosses of this business oblige innocent girls to destroy their lives. They use different tactics and manipulation to do the job. Some girls are really weak and in need, but certainly, they don't need this kind of help; they don't want to be prostitutes. Avoid being an animal. Wake up the human being inside of you”.

 It is Imane’s first page diaries. Maybe she felt that she was still young and minor when she first had a s****l experience with a client, she is not ready to tell me the story now. Or maybe she is talking about another girl. Is she just writing her inner thoughts?! Should I tell her that I read it by mistake? I prefer not. I shouldn't have read it in the first place. She dropped it in the office this morning; I'll put it in her bag the next session.

"No matter how much life is hard and unfair, faith and love can make it worth living. Love yourself first, love life and love your surroundings. Spread the feelings of love".