قصة: احتياج عاطفي
بقلم فضيلة معيرش
ترجمها إلى
الإنجليزية عبد اللطيف غسري
استحوذوا على جلّ
تفكيرها ووقتها،استنفذوا جهدها ،أرهقوا صحتها، كان ذلك خيارها وزوجها عبد المنعم
،أن ينجبوا عشرة أطفال ليكونوا سندا لهما وليقوا بهما عضدهما فكلّ شيء يحرضهما على
بلوغ الثراء،وتمكين أبنائهم من حياة أفضل .
كان حظهم من التعلم
يسيرا، حذا الذكور الثمانية حذو والدهم في امتهان التجارة دون تدقيق إن كانت بسبل
مشروعة أو خلاف ذلك ،رؤاهم كانت مشتركة
.
ساعدت البنتان
والدتهما في تربية إخوتهم دون تذمر،وقد حظيتا بجمال آسر لا يمكن تجاوزه، ضجت حياة
الأم سميرة والأب عبد المنعم بكثرة المهام والانشغالات ،كبر الأبناء وراح كلّ منهم
يؤسس لحياة مستقلة،وإن كان يجمعهم جميعا البيت العائلي الكبير،تزوجوا وأصبح
أطفالهم محور اهتمامهم،تتمرغ الأنانية في احتوائهم لحياتهم . تتكئ الأم سميرة على
عاطفة ضحلة اتجاههم جميعا نظير افتعال الحجج فلا رعاية ولا سؤال عن أبويهم لا في مرضهما ولا في كبرهما
، لم ينقصهما المال بقدر ما نقص احتياجهما العاطفي ، وإن كانت ظروف بعضهم مضطربة
بسبب مخالفاتهم في تجارتهم وخسائرهم المتكررة وتذمرهم من ذلك ،بقى الوالدان في مهب
الحيرة والندم كجبلين قاحلين لا مطر من الحنان يحيي منابت شجرهما المصفر،ولا كلام
يطيب مسمعهما كمن هما في مثل سنهما. فكرا أن تربيتهما وإسرافهما في الاهتمام
بماديات الحياة وإبعاد مشاعر الود والاحتواء عنهم مذ كانوا صغارا ،هي نتاج لما آل إليه حالهما.
فضيلة معيرش /
الجزائر
Emotional Need
A short story by Fadila Mairech
Translated from Arabic by ABDELLATIF RHESRI
They took over all her thinking and time, and
exhausted her power and health. That was a choice taken by herself
and her husband Abdelmounaim. To beget at least ten children so that the might
support them and be a source of strength for them later on. Everything induced
them to try to become rich in order to be able to provide their children with
welfare
They had just a little education. The eight
male kids followed their father's example and specialized in commerce, not
caring much whether it was legal or not. They had common viewpoints in that respect.
Whereas the
two girls helped their mother in their brothers' upbringing without
complaining. They were endowed with so bewitching beauty that nobody could fail
to notice. The mother -Samira- and the father -Abdelmounaim- led a life that
was boisterously full of missions and preoccupations. The kids grew up and each
one of them sought to start an
independent life, though, they all dwelt in the big family house. They all got
married and their children became their axis of interest. Selfishness usurped their
ways of living. The mother, Samira,
cherished a shallow emotion towards them, because of their forging pretexts for
neglecting their parents. They never care to ask about their health in such an
old age. She and her husband did not lack money, but they were enduring a
terrible state of emotional need, though some of their children's circumstances
were tumultuous due to their infringements in commerce and their frequent
losses. The parents remained like two barren mountains yearning for the rain of
tenderness to pour down and water their yellowish, dying trees. There were no
soothing words to hear, which could appease such lonely old people as they
were. However, they believed that they were to blame for that, because of
their having been excessively interested
in leading a material life when their children were young, and forgetting to
sow the seeds of love and tenderness in their souls. Now they were reaping the harvest of
their neglect.
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