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Why women don't dream, especially after a certain age: Is it conditioning or circumstances that make us give up our dreams?
“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” Dr. Abdul Kalam
Over the past few months, I ‘ve been doing a lot of reading, thinking and writing about the importance of having “dreams” in the journey of life. And by dreams, I don’t mean the dreams which you get when you’re asleep. I’m talking about dreams which make you want to jump up from bed each day, and live your life fulfilling your dreams.
I quizzed people in my network about their dreams, and as expected there was a range of responses which inspired a post on “Are you too old to have a dream?”. Evidently, the answer is NO. You are never too old to have a dream!
But there were other interesting observations that I also made in connection to women and dreams: 1. Women after a particular age found it harder to articulate and express their dreams? I can’t help but wonder why? o Is it because women don’t have dreams? o Is it because women don’t want to share their dreams? o Is it because women have not really thought about their dreams?
2. The dreams of many women after a particular phase of life (read as marriage, or becoming mothers) hardly revolve around them. Again, I can’t help but wonder why? o Is it the genes? o Is it the way women have been conditioned? o Is it that their lives revolve so much around their families that their dreams also revolve around their family? o Is it that their own dreams are somewhat side-lined / put on the back-burner to enable others to live their dreams? o Is it that somewhere they’ve lost their own view of “their dreams”?
3. So many women did not have any real long term dreams at all. Again, I can’t help but wonder why? o Is it that there are genuinely no dreams? o Is it that they don’t believe in the power of dreams? o Is it that they have accepted that dreams don’t always become reality, and hence there’s no point in having a dream I don’t have all the answers, But here’s what I do know..
Dreams are vital to the journey of life Dreams change with time and life Dare to Dream! And work to make your dream a reality!
Here’s to DREAM POWER!
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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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