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The poet explores the moment of metamorphosis when a woman is done trying to live her life on others' terms and decides to do it her way.
I am done being who you want me to be
I am done seeing what you want me to see
I am done doing what you want me to do
I am done with regrets so I no longer rue!
I am done agreeing to everything you say
I am done following, doing things your way
I am done wearing what you approve of
I am done with instructions, so please stop!
I am done keeping quiet, done with silence
I am done cloaking my hurt as resilience
I am done being prey to emotional abuse
I am done being blamed, I now simply refuse!
I am done being a possession, to be shown
I am done not having an identity, my own
I am done donning avatars to bow and please
I am done with servitude, yes finally, jeez!
I am done not being heard, having a voice
I am done living my life as per your choice
I am done with the morbid illusion of love
I am done; I know now, that I myself am enough!
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Sonal is a multiple award winning blogger and writer and the founder of a women-centric manpower search firm - www.rianplacements.com. Her first book, a volume of poetry - Islands in the stream - is slated read more...
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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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