Redefining boundaries

Happy Women's Day Everyone!!!! 

Here's a huge shoutout to every woman who's reading this 💖. You deserve to be celebrated every day for being who you are- for being short, for being tall, for being fair, for being dark, for being feminine, for being tomboyish, for being quiet, for being outspoken, for being stubborn, for being obedient, and above all- 

For spreading love and caring without a condition;

You deserve to be celebrated every day, every moment. We certainly don't need a special day to acknowledge your presence in our lives, we don't need a special day to celebrate ourselves; but today we should take the opportunity to embrace who we are without placing any boundaries on who we could be. Always remember, the power always lies within and therefore, our empowerment also begins within us. As long as we don't imagine any barriers on what we could achieve, there's no one and nothing that can stop us;

It's for us to believe that we can "Break the Glass Ceiling".

No matter where we were born, what kind of upbringing we have received, our story roughly remains the same. All of us have been taught the right way to sit, the right way to talk, the right way to walk and almost everything that we do is defined by a so-called "right way". Sometimes these advice came from our family and sometimes from people who didn't care so much as to know our name. All that ever bothered them was the length of our dress, or our attitude or our way of presenting ourselves. "Big dreams aren't meant for us", "travelling alone is a absolute no no", "our decisions are never meant to be taken by us" and a lot more....

We face this every day, from different sources but still we put up a smile and dare to walk over these seemingly "petty obstacles", and if we dare to become stubborn, to question or to argue, then we are tagged as "disrespectful". And please don't think that this is all, there's an even bigger list to follow, want to hear?

We bleed every month and with that comes pain, cramps, headache, loss of appetite but we are expected to remain shut because "it's a girl thing, never meant to be shared"- even if that means hiding bigger diseases within our body. The first question that every employer asks his female employee while recruiting is-"are you married and by when do you intend to start a family" because according to popular belief- "family doesn't go with career for a woman" but this question is never asked out of a male employee, even if he has a family, even if he is married because "family can never be a man's responsibility". Kanyadaan- a ritual that Indians are very proud of, is performed during marriage, wherein the daughter is "given away" by her father to her husband- a transfer of property from one man to another man, but my question is;

Have you ever wondered so much as to think how that daughter might feel? She's a human being too but she's treated as nothing but another object on which a man can claim power.

And as women, we have been taught to be submissive, we have been taught to dream about our "prince charming" who would come and fly us away, sounds funny, isn't it?

But sadly, it isn't just funny, it's painful....

And, so much for whom - "SOCIETY"; that society which doesn't care to turn around and help a girl when she is being eve teased, again sounds really funny, right?

But it is just heavily "unfortunate"

But, I have always dreamt of a life outside what is defined for a woman.

So, from today and now, Let's confidently believe that we were never weak and we don't need anybody to rely on for our personal upliftment. We aren't physically weak either, only and only a woman can bleed every month and yet run offices, take care of their families, write exams and execute all our duties without complaining for a minute; only and only a woman can carry a child within her for nine months, go through severe labor pain but still fulfill all her personal and professional duties without a frown on her face and if this isn't physical strength, I don't know what ever will be?

We dare to dream about achieving big heights in our career, we dare to have a beautiful family, we dare to smile, fight and bounce back again and most importantly we dare to dream that there will come a day when our prince charming would wait for us and we would fly them away instead,

We dare to dream of a career alongside a family, we dare to travel alone, we dare to stand up for our rights, we dare to voice our problems and most importantly, 

We still dare to love, we still dare to care, and do so unconditionally....

So, to every woman reading this, let's dare to dream big and reimagine our lives on solely our terms.

And, for all the men reading this, to all the women in your life- mother, sister, wife, friend, girlfriend, daughter; value them because I don't think your life will continue to hold much interest if one fine day the ladies of your life disappear forever....

This Women's Day lets #BreakTheBias!!!!💖💖