In the post, the woman, not named, talks about the night her life changed forever.
Highlights
- In a moving post, a woman talks about overcoming the death of her husband
- She also mentions raising her daughters and going back to school
- Her story has been shared on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page
"Sometimes, life takes people away... I still sometimes question why 26/11 had to ever happen, but the only way to fight back is to not give up," says a Mumbai woman on the Humans of Bombay Facebook page. Her story about overcoming the death of her husband, raising their daughters alone as a working mother and going back to school to finish her education is beyond inspiring.
Shared some 22 hours before writing this, the woman, not named, talks about the night her life changed forever. Her husband, who used to work at the railway station, had gone to drop his mother off at the station when she received a phone call from her sister-in-law. That's how she learnt about the terror attack and also that her husband wasn't answering his phone.
"I rushed down to the PCO to call him and after trying many times someone finally picked up and said, 'the person who's phone this is, is dead... come claim the body' and I was shattered. I had no idea what to do or where to go, so I sat down on the floor and cried," she says on Facebook.
She recalls taking months to recover but had to pull herself together. "I had two daughters who had their whole lives in front of them and I had to make sure that I did everything I could to educate them better," she says.
So she used the compensation she received from the government for their education and took up the job the railways offered her. "Since I had only studied until the 8th grade, I couldn't get a job that paid me half as well, but I took it anyway," she says. And to further set a good example for her daughters, she even decided to go back to school to complete her education.
"Those days were absolutely crazy, from preparing food for my daughters, dropping them to school, going to work, coming home, cooking dinner, doing my homework and rushing to night school at 7 PM... I have no idea where the strength came from!" she says on Facebook, adding, "I just loved that I was educating myself to never feel helpless again." She first completed high school and is now well on her way to clearing class 12 as well. She has even managed to receive promotions through all of this.
What she says at the end of the post is what is truly inspiring, though. Read her post in its entirety below: