This is dedicated to all the beautiful women in my life.
When you take birth, it's a woman who takes the pain to let us be safe. When we start start growing and start messing things around in house and she has to go to work, super-granny comes to rescue and save the day. All the long summer holidays would have been so very incomplete without the visits to our granny's place.
A caring sister, who not only takes care of you back at home but also stands by you and pampers you in school, without whose support you would have been scared in school and peed yourself to bed during those scary nights. High school, yes now we know the importance of women. Not for the great favors they do for us but for being able get a girlfriend. This is the time when all the women are treated with utmost respect and care. And the declining sex ratio ensures one woman to get attention from multiple people.
You might be doing a lot in life, but when you hit a low in life, it is a woman who will hold your hand and pick you up. She had always been there, you never noticed. You will love her with all your heart that day. And the next day, you are fine and you move on but she never leaves. She goes into her invisible abode and walks by you.
Oh! how can I forget the best friend. From writing notes for you, from giving proxy for you,taking care of you on your sick days, going out with you when you didn't have a date, from crying to you about her love problems and you crying to her about your issues because you know your guy friends will not give a crap. The best friend a guy has is a girl, just that at different phases in life, the person changes.
You fall in love one day, get married not necessarily in the same order, then you meet the home-maker woman. She not only takes care of your husband, deals with family issues, cooks food but at the same time she is an ambitious woman who has a job where she is equally respected. She gives birth to your child, every one in the house is happy. You have a tear looking at your baby's first cry but you have no idea of the pain she went through.
A salute to all those great women.
For a being that God created with such care and nurture, we do not need a day to show respect. We need to honour them 365 days a year when ever and where ever we get a chance. But that is not the situation. Female feoticide, rape, dowry cases all such other heinous crimes caused against women show us a different picture all-together. I won't be surprised if i get to know a woman is being raped as i write this post on International Women's day, because we are letting it happen. Where are the guards of the women, where is the strict law that needs to be there?
The actual celebration of women's day will be when all women will be able to walk freely at any point of time, be it 12 in the midnight or 4 in the morning, when the guys can sleep peacefully not worrying about their mother, wife, sister or girlfriend's safety. Only if we can see such a day shall we celebrate women's day.
Yes now the question why i chose this day to write about it. I chose this day because after all the women's day ads one sees on TV and all the women's day celebrations in schools and colleges, the emotional videos on Facebook and YouTube, one can relate to the things I have written and may be I can change the thinking of one human being and may be one woman will be shown respect from today on-wards. That is all I wish for.
Love and respect women safeguard them. If you still don't agree, know that homosexuality is still a crime in India.
When you take birth, it's a woman who takes the pain to let us be safe. When we start start growing and start messing things around in house and she has to go to work, super-granny comes to rescue and save the day. All the long summer holidays would have been so very incomplete without the visits to our granny's place.
A caring sister, who not only takes care of you back at home but also stands by you and pampers you in school, without whose support you would have been scared in school and peed yourself to bed during those scary nights. High school, yes now we know the importance of women. Not for the great favors they do for us but for being able get a girlfriend. This is the time when all the women are treated with utmost respect and care. And the declining sex ratio ensures one woman to get attention from multiple people.
You might be doing a lot in life, but when you hit a low in life, it is a woman who will hold your hand and pick you up. She had always been there, you never noticed. You will love her with all your heart that day. And the next day, you are fine and you move on but she never leaves. She goes into her invisible abode and walks by you.
Oh! how can I forget the best friend. From writing notes for you, from giving proxy for you,taking care of you on your sick days, going out with you when you didn't have a date, from crying to you about her love problems and you crying to her about your issues because you know your guy friends will not give a crap. The best friend a guy has is a girl, just that at different phases in life, the person changes.
You fall in love one day, get married not necessarily in the same order, then you meet the home-maker woman. She not only takes care of your husband, deals with family issues, cooks food but at the same time she is an ambitious woman who has a job where she is equally respected. She gives birth to your child, every one in the house is happy. You have a tear looking at your baby's first cry but you have no idea of the pain she went through.
A salute to all those great women.
For a being that God created with such care and nurture, we do not need a day to show respect. We need to honour them 365 days a year when ever and where ever we get a chance. But that is not the situation. Female feoticide, rape, dowry cases all such other heinous crimes caused against women show us a different picture all-together. I won't be surprised if i get to know a woman is being raped as i write this post on International Women's day, because we are letting it happen. Where are the guards of the women, where is the strict law that needs to be there?
The actual celebration of women's day will be when all women will be able to walk freely at any point of time, be it 12 in the midnight or 4 in the morning, when the guys can sleep peacefully not worrying about their mother, wife, sister or girlfriend's safety. Only if we can see such a day shall we celebrate women's day.
Yes now the question why i chose this day to write about it. I chose this day because after all the women's day ads one sees on TV and all the women's day celebrations in schools and colleges, the emotional videos on Facebook and YouTube, one can relate to the things I have written and may be I can change the thinking of one human being and may be one woman will be shown respect from today on-wards. That is all I wish for.
Love and respect women safeguard them. If you still don't agree, know that homosexuality is still a crime in India.
