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It is important to trust yourself and take all the time you want to make an informed choice and not let outside pressure dictate your life.
Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible – Mandy Hale
For some reason, most of us are expected to make major life decisions according to the timelines set by someone else. We are expected to cater to their wishes while disregarding what we want, lest they get offended by us taking our lives into our own hands. Everyone grows at their own pace and everyone needs time to figure things like education, career, marriage or any other decision concerning their life. The last thing we need is someone constantly putting pressure on them to act fast and create an environment where even a slight delay can seem life threatening when it isn’t. Giving into their demands may seem rational because that’s what everyone expects you to do but ask yourself if it is really what you want. Because if you are not really happy about those decisions then it becomes an added burden on your head which ends up complicating everything. One good thing about taking your own decisions is that you are more likely to accept the responsibility of whatever happens next instead of blaming it on someone else. So it is important to trust yourself and take all the time you want to make an informed choice and not let outside pressure dictate your life. Because you are the one who has to live with the consequences of decisions, not them.
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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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