It is more than an year since I moved out of my home and started working. I meet a lot of
young girls from diverse backgrounds at my workplace as well as in the flat I stay. Every time I have a conversation with each of them, we seem to be sharing a common concern of people around as finding us as complicated and confusing. This made me think as to why the GenY women are full of paradoxes that others fail to understand.
We belong to a special breed of individuals who feel morality, religion and culture is more about being honest to oneself rather than being honest and pleasing to people around us. We feel that hypocrisy is the biggest sin. We feel that being submissive to people around us is a dumb choice; chastity and virginity are not the measure of a girl’s purity; cooking should be a passion rather than drudgery and standing up for what one believes in is a birthright and not rebellion. We feel that working late at night or travelling with a male colleague is normal; having a dream of owning one’s enterprise is an achievable dream and voicing disagreement against injustice is the right choice. We feel religion is all about a clean conscience and true love surpasses age, gender and nationality. We feel that marriage is more about companionship, the greatest gift is self respect and beauty is about possessing a strong mind.
Our responsibility to the society is lot more than being a devout wife and a caring mother. It is all about being the change that you want to see. It is about standing up for what we believe in even if we stand alone. It is more about being bold than beautiful.
I couldn't agree more! Most of us have our share of bitter experiences in this world that make us hold on to our values and morality stronger than ever. Thanks for voicing this out Push :)
ReplyDeleteHats off Pushpakala... These thoughts have been going through my mind for long, but you were able to collect them together and voice your feelings. The mindset of our society should change by a long way and I agree that its a herculean task to change the mindset of a vast majority of '2 billion people'. Its sad to point out how people bend, the very culture which we should have been proud of, for their own justification as to why certain practices still continue to happen in our society. Somewhere in our history we somehow lost our way and we went from bad to worse and worst. Every now and then in the present era, we see flutter of hopes here and there, but then ultimately everything falls back to square one. Hope your voice reach many more people and you are to able to influence atleast some if not all.
ReplyDeleteWell said pushkala. Agree to most of ur points here.
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