It's like comparing apples to oranges and sufferings really cannot be measured but since you have made this post, I am going to speak my mind as an impartial person and not as someone who loves Seher. 😊 BTW, you should have made a poll if you wanted to see the real opinion because this forum has many silent members who prefer not to reply in topics but do vote in poll topics. Now this is my opinion of course. I'm not forcing it on anyone, you can agree or disagree with me, fine.
Seher: Abandoned (She must have felt so) at age 2. She had a loving family and then suddenly they were gone. We don't know yet if she witnessed what happened to her family. She must have wandered the streets for hours in the hot sun, not used to searching for food, or water or shelter. Slept on the street to awaken the next day and begin the same journey again, searching for her family, for the necessities that a child from a well to do family expect easily. She must have tried asking and begging for water and food but she must have become filthy by then and people tend to kick out at such children. Bewildered she must have eaten from trash, drunk water from puddles (She was too small to think about water from the government made water stalls(?) ) People also tend to physically hit out at such children; a kick, a slap, a punch. Rosy and Shishupal found her when she was 10. She'd survived 8 years all alone by then, we don't know what she saw in those years. Did people try to sell her, did they try to cut off her limbs to make her beg? Did some pedophile try to take advantage of a pretty child? Rosy and Shishupal took her in but she didn't get any love. The way she addressed them says a lot. She never called them Mum or dad, she probably tried and was shut down and laughed at. It was aunty and uncle. She was used by them, taught to con, taught to steal. I am guessing food and water with other punishments were used an incentives to hone her stealing abilities. She grew up, cynical, all alone, only knowing how to survive and not trusting anyone. She didn't believe good people existed. She had owners when she was little and then partners when she grew up and smartened up but she knew if there came a choice between her and them saving their own hide, her "aunt" and "uncle" will choose their own skin and throw her to the wolves. Are you surprised she found it hard to believe that people like Rehaan and Sanam existed? That people can love truly and not just for gain? And why she treasures Rehaan and Sanam so much? Because she knows these two genuinely love her and will lay their life on line for her. Seher also had no medical coverage if she was sick, there was no one to take care of her if she had food poisoning or a fever or any illness. She had no one to pick her up and take her even to a municipal hospital if she was ill and unable to walk by herself and ask for help.
Aahil: He was beaten up but also saved by Chacha and Billi. Chacha because he genuinely loved Aahil and Billi because she was faking it. He had nightmares and felt guilt for killing his dad and being instrumental in sending his step mom to jail. He felt beholden and compensated by trusting Billi blindly and using women to exhaust himself into sleeping dreamlessly. But he still had people to look after him. He had siblings who truly loved him. He had an adopted brother who understood and loved him just as much. He never starved. He never had to fight to survive. He never had to wonder if today will be his last day on earth. If he was sick, he knew people will look after him. He never wondered if he will survive to see the next day. Even when people tried to use him, he had people to fall back on. If not family members then his family lawyers and trustees(?)
Honestly, some replies from some select members surprised me but I guess as fans it's hard to be impartial. I read many members write that having no parent is better than having terrible ones. I disagree. Even a terrible parents will give basic necessities to their child for them to survive. Even Billi threw Rehaan in an orphanage so he could survive. Nawaab beat up Aahil but he never broke his bones or drew blood. Aahil was always saved by someone by then. He never tried to kill Aahil, just make him stronger and instill fear in him.
So yes, Seher had the darker past. But even after this, you disagree with my post, it's fine. 😊
Edited by In-Sanity-Metis - 10 years ago
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