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A poem about the wisdom of knowing when to hold on and when to let go!
A tiny rill was once born
On the cliff of a mountain high
Which towered up with craggy peaks
And reached up to the sky
The rill began its descent downward
As it was meant to do
And as it trudged its rocky path
Lo behold, it grew and grew
First a rill and then a brook
Soon it became a stream
It raced away from where it was born
All to chase a dream
The mountain watched it grow apace
Its crags suffering many a mighty blow
It stopped the clouds with its tall peaks
So the stream with the rain could grow
At last the stream reached the plain
Now a river with a path to make
The mountain knew it would never be back
Its heart beginning to break
The river now had a single goal
To find the sea wide and blue
Far behind, the mountain watched
All its dreams come true
The river found its sea at last
And was lost in its embrace
‘Go my child “, smiled the mountain green ‘May you be blest with God`s grace
“No longer can I keep pace with you. You have grown long and wide From afar though I rejoice in you Your very being is my pride”
I asked the mountain, “ Does it hurt To let your little rill go?”
“Children have to find themselves”, it smiled
Its tears beginning to flow
“Tis but the natural order of things And it will always be so
WISDOM LIES NOT IN HOLDING ON BUT KNOWING WHEN TO LET GO.
Image source: Unsplash; Credits: ArtistGNDPhotography
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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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