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It was your job to give me my inner voice - so why did you keep hammering it in all the time - "hard work always pays!"?
You said “Hard work pays Off!”
So
Growing up From the very nascent years I followed through It I kept working hard Despite things getting Complicated Difficult Toxic I sustained and persevered As much as I could Only to one day witness Hard work paying Off Better, Better for a Beautiful future
Up until
Today’s day and age When I feel all Burned out Turned to all Smoke and ashes
Who do I blame Today That I failed In understanding your Old saying
And
Who would tell ME about big Words like Self-belief and Self-esteem That are also Required!
When I was struggling Behind the thick bars Of your grades and Good marks I was struggling With critical Outside voice That said Otherwise
When all I needed Were six simple words Go Out And Play your heart out!
Image source: a still from the series Average Ambili
Pallavi Prakash Kumar is a conscious parent, an IT engineer, an author, and an award-winning parenting blogger, poet and the founder of 'She Narrates®'. Her forte is Technical Writing and creative writing. Her favorite 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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