Who lives for himself dies alone!
The hero of our story is a person who made his parents, family, teachers, and everyone who loved him a bridge to reach his goal until he reached the completion of his education and obtained a medical degree. Then he completed the training period and thus reached financial self-sufficiency. Thus, he found himself no longer needing all these people in his life. He began searching for the social class to which he belonged. One day he found himself a great doctor, a successful and famous surgeon. He no longer sees his parents, brothers, and sisters except on special occasions, and he is the one who determines the timing of the visit, and in this way he has waived his social duty.
In this state, the years passed. He got married and formed a happy family that lived in luxury and an upscale social life. He lived in a neighbourhood inhabited only by the rich. The last time his family saw him was when his mother died, and after that he was cut off from the family, even on social occasions and religious holidays.
While he is busy in his new world, he no longer visits his parents or communicates with any of his family members, and does not allow anyone to visit him. The days passed quickly, life fluctuates a lot between ups and downs, and few can stay at the top. Every cup has capacity, if the cup is full, it overflows and starts to spill what is more than its limit. with the time he became bored and began to relieve himself to dispel this boredom by staying up late in the evening, drinking alcohol, and befriending some divorced doctors, some of whom were not married, and they began to meet every night. Over time, he had a mistress, one of the nurses who worked with him. He began to run away to her and sleep in her house so that he would not return home in a miserable state of drunkenness, so his wife could no longer accept this new situation. The matter reached the point that his wife knew everything, so she asked for a divorce and separated from him. She took the children. The court awarded her half of his money, in addition to monthly support for her and her children.
Alcohol, staying up late at night, neglecting work, and being late for appointments got the better of him, and many of the people around him moved away. Due to neglect and his going through a difficult psychological state after the divorce of his wife and the separation of his children, the final blow was that he performed the wrong surgery that cost him his degree and he had to pay huge compensation, and he no longer owned anything. He moved to live in a small house in a city where no one knew him, and he could not return to look for his brothers, and he did not know anything about his children. He was no longer able to pay alimony, as he had been unable to pay it for several months, so he had no choice but to look for work to help him in difficult life circumstances, or immigrate to another country. But he grew old and was no longer able to bear the burdens of immigration, and he no longer possessed any certificate or qualifications, so he decided to live in hiding until his life was over.
After his departure, they found nothing but memoirs he had written. In some of them he said that I thought I owned myself, that I was strong and did not need anyone. I thought that I was writing my destinies with my own hands, until out of the severity of my ignorance and arrogance, I wrote the sad ending for myself. I thought that I did not need my family, brothers, and friends, and I relied on my degree and financial income, and thus I lost everything. If you are reading these words, do not make the mistake that I made, and learn to thank all those who contributed to your life, even with a word or a small help. Life has given me a lot, and my family has given me everything. But I let them all down. I lived my life for myself, and today I leave the world alone.
By Ali Almawali
