Miserable journey
from a little girl to old lady
By
P.R.Ramachander
(After writing
about misery of a man , I suddenly realized that I am partial
as the girl child also has much more problems.)
A girl is born in a house and
her shrill voice,
Does not often make
the home break in to a smile,
And they
all get worried greatly and feel bad ,
And that little
one grows till the age of seven
like a bird,
Though like her
brothers she also is a child , she starts feeling,
She is different
from them and all of them
are worried about her,
Then the mother
starts telling her that she is girl
and has to be careful,
And should not go out
anywhere without company, for men are
bad.
Just like her brother
she also is asked to study but
often she is told,
Though we like you little one , one day you would go away from this house ,
And so unlike
your brothers dear , you need not
put in so much effort,
In studies but
with change in time she
too is educated well.
One day , all of a sudden
, her mother tells
her that she has grown up,
And will go
through those three miserable
days of pain and shyness,
But unlike the
case of her brother’s growing up ,
which is not celebrated,
Her growing up
is celebrated with joy
and mirth as well as agony.
She slowly
realizes that her period
of freedom is over ,
Along with the
onset of her periods and
she realizes
That like a flower
bud she too will open and the world at large,
Would like to
stare at her and her parents would be worried about her ,
She realizes
that she too is intelligent and clever
like all boys,
She realizes
that she is much more pretty
than them ,
And unlike olden
times , when her job was only getting
married,
She now has to study
, get job and had a role to play
in future life,
She also realizes
that her prettiness is a
great burden to her,
For she is
stared at on roads ,
pinched at in city buses ,
Dashed from
back by boys when she
walks on the road,
And reading daily
news paper makes her scared of open life.
She studies like
the boys, becomes a professional like them ,
Earns as much
as they earn , looks after parents
like them,
But the world as well as
God makes her feel
that her life,
Is to attract a man , whom she likes and loves and
adores.
Unlike him , she spends
lot of her time to look
pretty ,
She goes to the gym, goes to parlours for
treatments ,
Like hair
thinning, waxing ,
straightening of eye lids ,
And also goes to the doctor to become thin and thick in certain parts.
With a fluttering heart
and with inexhaustible
dreams she gets married,
Only to be transplanted
in a home, where no one tries to understand her,
She soon finds
that most of the time the husband
does not think of her,
As a life
time companion of love but a doll
which would act as he wants.
In her new home ,
except for her husband all
others consider her ,
AS their enemy who has
stolen the love of their brother/son,
And this is made
clear to her not only by them
whom she loves,
But serials in TV, movies, stories in magazines and even by their friends
That poor girl realizes that she
is far away from her
parents ,
And does not have
any independence to help them in
any way,
And she also realizes that unlike her
husband , she has ,
Lots and lots of work
at home as well office because she is a
girl.
The life called
struggle chained with pleasure goes on,
And one day she
finds that she is
on her way to be a mother,
And starts carrying
the heavy burden of future generation ,
In her womb making
her struggle to walk but not to stop
work.
Then the
day she would become a mother would dawn,
And she would have
to undergo unparalleled and severe pain,
Which does not have
any thing like that in human
life,
And she bears
it and filled with joy to see her little child.
Unlike him who has only the job of providing money ,
For those
children to grow, she who turned
her blood in to milk,
To feed her children , works without rest from
very early morning ,
To night
ceaselessly and without any rest to bring them up,
All the world some
how likes to blame
the mother,
When child does not study well, when it develops bad
habits ,
When it troubles
all others or when it turns into
a bad one,
But she with a lips
pursed with teeth entering those lips,
struggles.
When the sons do not
look after their parents or even,
Ill-treat them , it is the wife who
is blamed and even if,
The family is
not able to build up
sufficient savings,
It is she who is
blamed as irresponsible house wife
Due to the fact
that men
are always older than wives,
The women has also responsibility to look after her husband,
When he becomes
old and is not able
to lead a healthy life ,
And poor one
without any rest leads a life of
sorrow till the end .
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