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‘Sometimes I feel I want to blurt out so much but it gets stuck somewhere
Sometimes I see you wanting to tell me something but it gets stuck somewhere
Sometimes I see us sharing a few difficult sentences but then it gets stuck somewhere….\’
I feel like most of my life I have been a box of feelings, I feel so much so often that I cannot get my thoughts in order.
Checking my WhatsApp chat list made me realise so many people I would chat with on a regular basis now have slid down the chat list bit by bit, and ofcourse I too have in their list.
There are days I want to reach out to so many of my friends and family and I just cannot, the thought of organising my thoughts to have a in depth conversation seems like a big task. So I let our chats disappear somewhere as life takes over in the present moment.
I realised this is how some of my friends and family also must feel. That there is so much to say that nothing comes out.
I sometimes visualise all of us in a factory somewhere, a factory of feelings, each person in a different shape of a box, either big or small or dented , either bright or dull or patched up. Regardless of the exterior, there is so much stored inside, feelings that can run a river. Yet nothing comes out.
I believe we all have become so emotionally independent and also empathetic that we think multiple times before reaching out to anyone.
I honestly feel as if I am disturbing someone who clearly has a lot going on, that I don\’t want to cast a shadow over someone\’s sunshine, so I just deal with myself.
But off late more and more I feel that I have boxed up my feelings and so have so many people around me. I truly believe that we should open the box and let out our emotions bit by bit.
Maybe….
Sometimes I speak at length and you listen
Sometimes you speak at length and I listen
Sometimes we both speak so that feelings flow …
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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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