1 Chapter 1 when i was sixteen

I ken am simply at place in life where there is no closure but atleast safe for now as i have walked the hardships of life on my own having to carry the burden of the entire family since i was sixteen let me introduce myself i am from a tiny village from southern India in tamil nadu our ancestors were farmers where as i couldn't do agriculture as i lost my father as i was sixteen my father name was Sanli and my mother Pandamma my father was a farmer and my mother always work with him in the fields i had two younger sisters our family was happy one as i remember but sometimes father would get drunk and beat up mom or anyone in his way he lived like a king on is own as i remember from when i was 12 years old as days passed he got even more addict over alcohol he used drink every single day and beat up us he even cut my mother with the knife sometimes but he would forget what he did during the day time all the people respected him and feared him as he was not afraid of anything and would go forward facing anything on his way he sometimes takes us hunting and he would teach us new things he was kind and loving during the day but during the night it was a nightmare for my mother as she loved him and would work with him all day but end of the day it was completely opposite and she would take all the beating from him he would beat me up to sometimes it was a living hell as my sister were way to young days passed we couldn't make a profit from agriculture as he would waste all the money for alcohol we started to starve day after day i was going to school during that time i used to walk 4 kilometres on daily basis to school i was in class 8 by the time i learned cooking so i can cook some food for my two sisters as they were at home and mom would leave them early morning as she would work in the fields our family couldn't sustain so me and my eldest sister quite studies even though i was good at studies I didn't know what to do that when my mother's younger brother visited us and he let us know that there was job opportunity in Bombay where he stayed and worked for the time being so i decided to quite the studies and sacrifice my life and future goals for my family sake so my eldest sister stay home to cook and take care of the house old work the only person who could study was my younger sister by now i set off to Bombay with my uncle with full of fear leaving my family alone once we reached Bombay it was the first time i visited a city and Bombay was a very busy city and so much people which i have never seen before next the day i was taken into a five Star hotels to do the dishes at the hotel i was given a shorts and a t-shirt as a uniform for the hotel i used to do the dishes as i was only 15 it was illegal for me to work even though i wanted to feed my family days went on it was difficult every single day as the hotel was very huge and was like a palace i worried about my family on daily basis that's wen i got the bad news via a letter that my father is admitted in a hospital due to illness cause by alcohol but by god's grace he was healed and he was going through recovery and i had was the back bone of the family from the as i earned in the hotel i would send mostly anything i had to my family the doctors adviced my father to drink alcohol and if he does it again he even might lose his life within a month's time he quite alcohol and was fixing himself up as i turn 16 and some days passed my father was joined by his friends on that day adviced him to drink and brain washed to do so my father without even knowing he was gone pass away he consumed alcohol and within a day he did die and just like that he passed away leaving all the family burdden on me and i was only sixteen when that happened.

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