Disability is not a Defect

Mother: (Feeling Cold) Ohh God… everywhere is iced… today is very cold…let me turn on the heater and hot the water because Parwana will wake up now… she is going to the tuition… (Calling) Parwana… Parwana daughter… wake up it is getting late…

Parwana: (Sleepy) OK mother… I am waking up… let me sleet for one minute more…

Mother: (With Kindness) wake up the water is hot… wash your hands and face… have your tea… don’t go the tuition hungry… when I came out to the year… I saw Nargis… the daughter of our neighbor… look she is waking up earlier than you and her two legs are not working…

Parwana: (Laughing) don’t think about her… she doesn’t have the sense… she is studying the whole day from morning to evening… I don’t like her at all…

Mother: (With Kindness) what are you saying… it is a sin… don’t say like this… I am saying that you go together with her to tuition…

Parwana: (With childish anger) me… me… should go with her?… what the people will say… won’t they say that Parwana’s friend is disabled… she is walking with the stick…

Mother: (With anxiety) don’t say like this daughter… the God will show his anger… what is her sin that she is born like this…

Parwana: (With anger) I won’t go with her to the tuition… in the tuition all the time teacher is naming her… I don’t like her at all…

Mother: (With anxiety) it is enough… you are saying too much… wake up… wash your hands and face… it is getting late…

Parwana: (With herself) the teacher of the tuition talked too much… she is telling me that why you have done your homework wrong… what is my problem… her lesson was very hard… I tried too much but couldn’t learn…

Nargis: (Gasping and calling) Parwana… Parwana…

Parwana: (With anger) what are you saying… are you calling me?…

Nargis: (With Kindness) Yes… wait… let’s go together… our home is in the same place…

Parwana: (With anger) now that you come… what can I say…

Nargis: (With Kindness) you have not learnt the yesterday’s lesson…

Parwana: (With anger) Why?… I think you are the teacher and therefore you are asking me…

Nargis: (With Kindness) why you are getting angry Parwana Jan… I am saying that as our homes are in the same area… and we are also studying in the same tuition… so why not study together…

Parwana: (Jesting) you are intelligent… why should you study with me…

Nargis: (With Kindness) you are also intelligent Parwana… like this you can take my mistakes and I can also share whatever I know… like this the teacher will also be happy…

Parwana: (Thinking) I don’t know…

Nargis: (With Joy) today at late afternoon you come to our home… today my mother prepared cookies… we will study together and we will drink tea … is it ok?…

Parwana: (Thinking) let me go home… ask my mother… if she let me then I will come…

Mother: (With Kindness) Parwana daughter… today you came late… was everything ok…

Parwana: (With anger) yes… you know I came with Nargis home… she cannot walk fast like me… I also walked like her… therefore it got late…

Mother: (Wondering) how did you come with her?…

Parwana: (With anger) I didn’t join her… she called me…

Mother: (With kindness) it is ok… like this you will not be alone… what happened you are too much angry today…

Parwana: Nothing… the teacher shouted at me today…he asked me that you have wrongly done your homework…

Mother: (Compassionately) she is right my daughter… you are not studying at home… the teacher is also right…

Parwana: (With Shy) you know mummy… today Nargis told me that from today we will be studying together… she told me come our home today…

Mother: (With Joy) it is very good… you know Nargis is a very good girl… no problem that she is disabled… but she is very sweet…go… absolutely go there… hope that she effect you as well…

Parwana: (With Shy) you are saying that I should go…

Mother: (With Kindness) yes my daughter… good friends are always good… she will support you in your studies… also you will pass your time nicely with her…

Parwana: (With Shy) it is ok… I will go… but I am really ashamed in front of her…

Mother: It is ok daughter… it is said from the past that whenever you catch the fish it would be fresh…

Message of Drama: Disability is not a defect; the humans are living in different conditions but whatever is important is the humanity and good behavior.