Both Are Dying: Would You Save Your Mother Or Your Stepmother?

Some hypothetical question that I thoughtwould make for a good topic..

You know how blood is thicker than water, so says the long aged proverb that we tend to qualify how deep family means to us.

Well this was what I found out  and I would love to kick off the week with this question first.

Imagine your mum left your dad when you were just 8 months old because he had no money. Your dad remarried a lady because he needed someone to take care of you. Unfortunately she couldn't bear your dad a child, she dedicated her entire time looking after you. 

Due to the financial state of the house, your step mum sold all she had so that she could sponsor your education. Luckily you graduated as a medical doctor, own you your hospital. One day an emergency occurred due to an accident which involved your biological mother and your step mother, your hospital was the nearest and obviously a good one, so both were brought in. You can only attend to one patient at a time being the only doctor on duty. Who will you give priority to? Your biological mum / or your step mum? (The situation permits you to choose just one, both losing blood profusely.

To all of you are likely to say: "I would allow my biological mother die"…wait up a second and just listen to what I have got to say.

If you vehemently say that you would run off to your step mother who slaved to put you through life and then care less about your mother because she wasn’t there, she ran off when you were barely one.. did you ever think about knowing what the truth really is???

You see, you might never really get the chance to know what the truth is behind your real mother's disappearance.

Wouldn’t you be atleast curious to know?

Blood they say is thicker than water so I am thinking that that curious part of you would want to grab the chance that life has presented to you to know what really transpired that led to your mother leaving.

You apparently were 8months when she left, so whatever story you grew up being told by your father was one sided and in other to get to a conclusive end of  a matter, you need two sides to the story. 

A story is never looked at from one diamension because to a story, there are different angles from which you can look at it and when you have exhausted all options, and every angles, you can now draw a conclusive line and make a final decision.

Remember that in an typical problematic situation, no one likes to bear the brunt of the whole situation, no one like to take the fall, no one likes to be accused or even told the truth about their shortcomings. Everyone likes to put the blame on others for their own mistake too… so who says your father might have told you the truth and nothing but the truth…?

Did he ever own up to the parts that he played in making your mother leave.?

The question is why did she leave?

What if your father was the real reason she left? What if he drove her for your pretty nice and caring step mother to come take her place?

Just what if he was cheating on her with this step mother?

In this day and age where women would do just about anything to be married, snatch any man to be married, charm any man with the help of a native doctor just to be married,..who is to say that this wasn't the case.

Tell me, how would you react to the current predicament that you are faced with that requires you to save just one life and you have two important people in your life bleeding profusely, almost seeping out of life. Your mother who left you at 8months old, and your step mother who sold all her property just so you are ok seeing she has no child of her own but then from the onset

you were told the story of how your mother left you and you didn’t get the chance to hear her own side of  the story.. so you believe whatever is handed down to you… 

Assuming your step mother was the real reason, your mother left you and your father?

What if your step mother was involved in pushing your mother out of her matrimonial home and you weren’t told that part of the story.

They painted it to make you believe that your mother was the bad guy and your father was the good one and the victim but your step mother was the angel who stepped in to the sad situation and made everything bright again.????

What if? What if? What if? What if? 

Think about it…would you still be sentimental about saving your step mother  who’s been there for you regardless and forget about finding the truth from your biological mother? Or would you just damn the consequences, save your biological mother seeing that she had gone through hell being without you and then start to build the bond that had been forcefully broken and taken away from her peradventure it was the fault of your nice stepmother?

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