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A poem reflecting the essence of reaching Mid thirties and evaluating life. Looking at lessons learned and opening up to new possibilities.
As I cruise through the thirties reaching the mid way
To toast to the wisdom gained
Through a few successful strides And more blatant failed attempts As compared to the younger- hushed up- failures!
Too much time wasted in vanity Too much value given to the unworthy Too much energy burnt in proving oneself Too much pride to accept mistakes Too many such memories looming in the mind!
Hoping to see a reflection of a better me The mirror showed nothing but an adult version Of the childish treads with wrinkles here and there Reminding of some progress That wouldn’t disappear so soon.
Creating a niche for the newly found identity In the embedded multi-layered persona Developed in these years, to maintain sanity From a complex world in a far more complex mind Promising to break free of this captivity of monotony!
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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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