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You win some, and lose some, as you make the choices in your life - says this insightful take on life, careers, and guilt.
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You win some, and lose some, as you make the choices in your life – says this insightful take on life, careers, and guilt.
Life is all about making right choices and getting along with them in its full earnest. No matter how right the choices might be, it will not be welcomed by some. Those few can be our loved and dear ones, or distant relatives of ours, or some unknown fans and followers on social media.
The case of Indira Nooyi is no different. She chose to be the president rather than a wife, mother, daughter or so on. I don’t see a reason for her to feel guilty about it, as she can’t undo the done. What she can carry forward is the fact that she has achieved something which most women would find hard to imagine.
She was not born to carry milk, or for that matter play ‘Nintendo’ with her kids. There are a number of male CXOs who have caring and supportive wives to both carry the milk and feed it to their children. There were many others who didn’t even bother what their family did or even existed.
So, Indira Nooyi finds herself in a situation where she didn’t have a husband who could have carried milk, or even if he did, it still made her feel guilty. This guilt is such an epidemic that it has impacted the lives of a majority of the working women who then take a half-hearted attempt at their career, and most of them make it second to their primary job of ‘carrying’ milk. Most of us would never disrupt the balance between our professional life and family life. And for that matter, most of us would never come even close to what Ms. Indira Nooyi achieved.
Life is all about making right choices and once you do you, never regret and never crib about it. You can be a happy mother feeding your kids, playing with them and cleaning their mess. You can be a strict leader accomplishing tasks with your male counterparts at odd hours of the day away from home and kids. You can be a super-mom managing both of them equally well. But at the end of the day, you win some, you lose some. The choice is yours and it should come with zero regret, and no guilt.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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