Thanks for bringing up this topic Blyton. Sid, Apurva, Blyton, Hansa your stories touched me a lot. I started watching JJKN from day one it started becuase we used to see the promos and we were wondering what this show is all about. Before that I never went on I-F or Yahho or googles for any serial. We just used to rent some video cassettes and watch some K shows.
I liked everything about the show and the fact that this was a story of a MIDDLE CLASS , smart and intelligent girl. When I was watching, I started relating myself to Jassi. I was born and raised in a middle class family and I lived every moment with Jassi. I started remembering How my parents had a tough time searching for a match for my sisters and me at the age of our marriage. I was very simple, not so beautiful and not so curious to look beautiful either( Always believed in simplicity) like Jassi.
When I got married and came to Canada, my language barrier gave me so many challenges in my carrier but I was very strong like Jassi and I accepted every challenge of life with the help of my husband and my Mother in law. I remember my First job in a Huge Corporation. Just our accounting department alone had 35 employees. Most of them were Canadian Girls and Oh man I had a tough time coping with them every day. Since I was born and raised in a small town of PUNJAB(HOSHIARPUR) 100% people including our ENGLISH PROFESSORS used to speak PUNJABI OR HINDI. Even though I had Master's in English, but when I came to Canada as an Immigrant, I had hard time picking up the Canadian accent. Most of my co-workers gave me hard time, but since I was like Jassi ( Never give up attitude and believe in GOD); I got over all the challenges of my carrier so well that in few years I was teaching Compurterised Accounting to those people, who used to laugh at my accent. When I was watching Jassi at the beginning, I was reliving my days at my Ist job. But this was not all for me in my Kasautis of life. While I was working and studying part time for my Designation, I had three kids and I thought, life will be so beautiful soon because they were growing up so fast. But no, I guess like Jassi God put me in more Kasauti's of life when all of a sudden, my husband died in his sleep. In eight years of my marriage life, I havd never even seen him sick once and to make it worse, no one was home that morning and I had never seen a dead body in my life. I didn't know what to do. Two years of my life was like HELL, but didn't give up for my kids sake. How could I? My daughter was only eight months old. I thought: happy or sad, I must live for my kids. Thats when I threw myself in front of GOD and HE just took me off HIS feet and put me on a LADDER and now every day I go higher, not quickly, but one step at a time.
All this happened before JJKN story came out. You know, in my depression days, I always wanted to write a book on my life story, but when I saw that no one is Happy in the world, then I accepted life as it came to me. Seriously, NO ONE IN THIS WORLD IS 100% HAPPY. Some has money, but don't get a suitable partners. Others have money and good partner, don't have kids. Some have a happy family but no food on their table. One way or other, if we don't reduce our desires, we are never happy. JJKN story taught us many things: as Beauty lies within or inner beauty is more important than your looks, Love is Blind, there is no Status Bar for love to happen and if you are together with your family, you can win any battle etc.
Edited by NKSUDHIR - 19 years ago
Anupamaa
