Quintessence

Nothing is going on in my mind



The morning breeze was blowing on my face, and just like every other day, the intricately lined window blocked its passage, like soldiers blocking enemy army, and yet some found their way in. I pushed off my sheets and looked up. It was 7.05 am already. I grabbed a coffee before I could grab my brush, as the incident last night impacted my mind, more than anything would.  I tried to throw them off, when I sidled back the coffee and walked down the stairs to get ready for my college. Post pulling myself into a comfortable accouter, I slipped myself to my bike, as I started for college, and there it started, the musings. I crossed a guy sauntering in that hot weather. He was dressed in rags, his skin worn out, I wondered, “Is he a vagabond, why is his teeth red? Did he have pan? Why everybody here has pan? What do they find in it? And before I could finish my thought, a passerby, a fellow traveller spitted his pan onto my pant. I know it didn’t make me furi…

Following a morning debate with few folks on - why women don’t make it to top positions in the country, this thought crept the inundated mind: The very reason why women don’t’ make it to top position is not because they are not talented. We all know very much how women stand ahead of men in education. Women don’t make it to top because they are tied and pulled to a smaller society by a medium called marriage. Their Society is limited to 3-4 people. Their thinking power is restricted. They are made to think for welfare of the family , than for the welfare of society or country at large. Their wings are still present but are cut off virtually by the commitments. If every women is allowed to be who she wants to be and is liberated from her “Restricted Self” , the world will have many women leaders . They will equally compete with Men! Tying women to homes is not slavery, Restricting their potential itself is one. So , next time before you ask someone why women don’t make it to top, ask yours…