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Changes inevitably come along as we age - here are the thoughts of a woman crossing 40.
Changes inevitably come along as we age – here are the thoughts of a woman crossing 40.
As a woman crosses her 40’s, the pressure keeps mounting on!
With children entering their teenage, the tantrums seem to increase by the day gone.
The husband’s battling struggles of his own, she has to fight it out alone.
The sagging wrinkled skin, the increased weight, the thinning, greying hair wait for none.
What she wanted to do and what she ended up doing, all her dreams are overthrown.
So many unanswered questions keep hovering around, the pressure keeps mounting on!
She waits, she dreams, the day will come, when she too will be the dame, who will conquer her own little fame, get her long pending due, for a lovely life she pulled through.
The day, when all the pressure’s gone, anticipating eagerly for this dawn, forgetting all her worries and living for her own.
Though the pressure’s mounting on…
Though the pressure’s mounting on, there is nothing that’s gone wrong,
there are more pros than con, it is life’s experience that I have won.
In this endeavour, it’s a treasure, to know after all ‘Diamonds ’ are made under pressure.
Shining bright as I look back, there’s not a moment of regret.
The patience and endurance that I got, nowhere else could have I sought.
No management could have ever taught, the life lessons that my children brought.
I can see the best remuneration, in the upcoming generation.
The love and labour that I sowed, with all heart and soul, has transformed into this beautiful abode.
The relationship that I had vowed, is blooming and making me proud.
At the helm I stand with pride, basking in the glory of life’s journey all teary-eyed, feeling happy, contented and satisfied.
I am sailing through life as graceful as a swan, the past I don’t dwell upon, it’s the future that I throw light on, though the pressure’s mounting on!
Image source: a still from Yeh Meri Family
Mother to a bubbly teenager and a student of psychology, Heena is also a travel enthusiast. She loves to observe the happenings around her and weave them into beautiful stories. A writer with a passion 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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