Two stories

Today I have two stories to share. Let's start with the sad one and end with the good one. 
I don't know how to behave very womanish, since childhood I have been like a Tomboy and I have loved it about me every time. Not the fact that I don't accept my womanhood, I love the woman I am, my looks, my features, my body shape, my complexion, I adore everything about me and my entire life has been invested in me safeguarding my womanhood just like any other woman but can everything be safeguarded. Remember how Hagrid told Harry, Gringotts is the safest place in the world but still polyjuice potion was just enough to break it. For years I have believed hospitals to be the safest ( maybe because I had seen hospitals like Medanta, Artemis), but what happened to the woman yesterday shook me to the core. I don't know if you know the Ryan international murder case in Gurgaon, but it was just in a neighbouring school from mine. I still remember how afraid I was to go to school that week. When nirbhaya happened I was in class 5 and even didn't know what rape meant.  This earth shooking thing happened and still the world outside the medical fraternity just cares about Olympics ( except a few). Maybe a series would be made after a few years and maybe it would get an Emmy nomination and maybe people will understand the gravity of it then but it would be too late, the parents lost their daughter, the girl lost her life, maybe she had a lover who lost her, her dreams, her entire life's hardwork all gone and we just mere spectators who are protesting for the hope of something to happen. I wouldn't be surprised if from Monday everything starts getting normal,all these incidents just showcase one thing- how less do we matter, how insignificant we are, how unsure life is and how everything isn't in our Hands.  

Now to the good story. I don't think the good things should be missed out from life. They give a lot of hope to move ahead. I met two of my distantly related grandparents today. Rather I came to know about them yesterday, so just imagine they were nothing more than just strangers to me. The wife and the husband were classmates and friends before they got married. They were roasting each other in between conversations and were funny in ways that I havent seen in a couple. Rather I haven't seen a couple like this up until now. They are highly reputed people, retired Oil India limited employees who are brought in as various guest lecturers in events around the globe. I remember meeting a similar kind of couple on train once( if you are a regular reader you remember that Delhi train ride). The wife gave me a lot of Sudha murty vibes, not that I have met Sudha murty but I could really feel she was a lot like her. And for someone who has always wanted to be a woman like Sudha Murthy since the fourth grade I couldnt be more inspired and astonished after meeting her. I really hope someday I find a husband in a friend. I really hope I find a family in a friend and I really hope I never have to give up anything I love in the process but all this can only happen if I am not killed. So yeah I am carrying a knife with me from the next working day. I just wish God had made me a boy, I just wish if I have to do everything a man has to do, then to have a man's body would have been the best thing. Sounding a lot like Kashaf Murtaza ( Watch Zindagi Gulzaar hai if you haven't yet) 

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