Check out 16 Return-To-Work Programs In India For Ambitious Women Like You!
I thought of women who are in marriages where they are emotionally, mentally and financially dependent on their husbands. Do they even have a say in things?
The freedom to do what I want when I want without being answerable to anyone.
It is a privilege. This privilege comes with a peace of mind that is invaluable.
The other day I was at home alone. Since I was alone, I did not have to decide what I needed to make for lunch. There was pasta and tuna cans. A combination that I just love. It’s my comfort food. But because as a family I need to take into consideration everyone’s food preferences and needs, I often tend to overlook what I feel like having.
That day I sat with a piping hot bowl of Arrabbiata pasta and canned tuna. I sat down for my lunch on my favourite carpet, and switched on to my favourite Netflix series.
It was then that I realised, it’s been so long since I have done what I wanted, in the peace and quiet of home. And doing this is so important.
Motherhood, being a home maker, being an office woman… women take on so many roles, and in the process they lose who they are.
Then my mind drifted to women who are in marriages where they are emotionally, mentally and financially dependent on their husbands. Do they even have a say in things?
Just because they are homemakers or financially dependent, their wishes are always requests that come with the uncertainty of whether it will be fulfilled or not. How must such an existence feel like?
Given that I had been recently watching the series Maid, another thought came to my mind. If a woman is a homemaker and forever dependent financially, do they even have a choice?
Maybe some are lucky, but there are others who are not so. If anything, they must be needing such strength of mind to reach to a state where they want to be. To start from a scratch so that they reach where they want to be. Comfort zones are never a choice for them. The only choice for them is to fund a way out to where they belong.
I saw how Alex from the maid series starting to clean toilets for a living even though she was an aspiring writer. Frankly, that courage is all someone needs to reach from A to B.
Falling back to comfort zones is so easy. It’s fighting to get what you want is that is difficult.
But as the saying goes, ‘If not you who, if not now when?
Food for thought?
Image source: a still from the film English Vinglish
A Social Media Content Writer by profession. A writer by heart. A genuine foodie. Simple by nature. Love to read, create paintings and cook. Have impossible dreams. At the moment, engaged in making those dreams read more...
Women's Web is an open platform that publishes a diversity of views, individual posts do not necessarily represent the platform's views and opinions at all times.
Stay updated with our Weekly Newsletter or Daily Summary - or both!
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.
Please enter your email address