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Yeah, you heard it right. This is all I want this Mother's Day; a day off from round-the-clock motherhood duties, a break from this programmed life.
Yeah, you heard it right. This is all I want this Mother’s Day; a day off from round-the-clock motherhood duties, a break from this programmed life. Am I sounding unreasonable or impractical? May be, but that’s the only wish I have.
People may call it being selfish, I call it loving myself.
I don’t want to be woken up by my husband or kids or that devil alarm clock. I just want to snuggle in my cozy bed and sleep as long as I want.
I don’t want to worry about the three hot meals of the day to be served to my family. Ordering in or eating out are better choices and will be much appreciated. Feeding toast and corn flakes to the kids instead of oats one day won’t make them sick. Go Daddy!
I want to have my morning tea in peace without getting up countless times in between. Am I expecting too much?
I want to take a bubble bath instead of a 2-minute shower.
I want to give myself a much needed foot massage as every night, my legs pain as though I have been climbing hills.
As I am miles apart from my Mom, I just want to call her and talk my heart out and listen to her without any distractions. I don’t even remember when I last spoke to her in peace.
I don’t even want to look at the sink full of dirty dishes or the fully loaded laundry basket. Excuse me for a day please!
I don’t want to babysit my terrible twos, worry about the mess they make throughout the day, act as a referee to their sword fights, change their leaking diapers, shout at them every minute to stop their mischief and most importantly, I don’t want to sing lullabies and put them to sleep.
I want to go out alone and buy myself some flowers and grab a chocolate without the fear of being caught by my tiny twos.
I may be judged for shirking my duties but I would give a deaf ear to all the comments and prefer to have a day just for myself. What are your wishes for the day, Mommies? How do you want your day to be? Share with me in the comments below.
Love you all, hope you have a fantastic Mother’s Day.
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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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