Tell us about a time when you felt out of place.

There are many moments in life when we feel uncomfortable even when everything is normal. I have faced this situation many times. But I can never forget what happened to me once.

My 15 year old daughter was insisting on going to watch a movie with her friends in the evening. My husband had clearly refused because it would be night by the time the movie ends. And my husband does not like children to stay out at night. But my daughter took me into confidence. And asked me to lie to my father. In those days my mother’s house was in my city itself. So I lied to my husband that she has gone to her grandmother’s house. My husband had gone to office after refusing me. In the evening I told my husband on the phone that I am sending my daughter to my mother’s house. Then he did not say anything to me, said okay I will bring her tomorrow morning. In the evening when my husband was returning from office, suddenly he decided to go to my mother’s house. Maybe he wanted to see his daughter. When he went there, the daughter was not there. He asked my mother if Vini had come here? Then mother refused saying that she did not come today. Then after sitting for some time my husband came home. And after coming he asked me where Vini had gone.  I replied casually that I had told you that she would go to her mother’s house. She asked me to repeat it. Because I had lied, I became uncomfortable. She caught my lie and said that look, the movie is over and it has been 1 hour. The theater was just 10 minutes away from our house. And now I also started worrying about my daughter. I called her and she said mummy, we are coming after eating something. After a while she came home. But after 1 hour, a call came from the father of one of her friends that his daughter has not returned home yet. At that time it was 10:00 at night. And neither was his daughter’s phone reachable. We all were getting worried. My daughter was very scared. And she was repeatedly telling me that mummy, now I will never go with friends. 2 hours later at 12:00 at night, her father called that his daughter had met with an accident. She was not hurt much but she was very scared.  Only then did we heave a sigh of relief. But the incident of that day shook me. And I swore that now I will never lie about my daughter. Also, I request every parent not to lie about their children. It often happens in Indian homes that the mother lies and supports the children. This increases the risk of the children going astray.