Listening

You’re a human who’s got senses fiveBut how much of sense from these do you strive? Contemplate about the earsHow much do you hear? Yes you do – but there’s still a difference‘Coz even if you hear, how much do you listen? You speak a lot, repeat things you already knowYou remain in the same […]

Listening

I’ll be me, despite of you!

I want to be able to play football, without my guy friends telling me to not play as it is a contact sport and other boys might not care about me being a girl!

I want to be able to walk on a deserted street in the middle of the night, without constantly planning how to fight back or probably run away if a man or a group of men try to molest or rape me!

I want to be able to date someone, without having to hide it or take approval from my parents or some political party or the mumbai police!

I want to be able to work late nights with my male colleagues, without being linked with them in an inappropriate manner, because I too need a healthy raise and a promotion, because I run my life or even my family’s!

I want to be able to choose when to marry someone, without the constant reminders from you about my biological time bomb.

I want to be able to even choose not to marry, ever, without a cause or may be because my kids will get their father’s name or may be even I will, at the expense of my career, my body and my future! 
I want to be able to wear what looks great on me, without having to spend money on pepper spray, because that dress is so expensive and so are the shoes and the accessories that go with it!

I want to be able to quit drinking and smoking up, without you telling me girls shouldn’t, may be because it’s not healthy for me; specially not because of the fear of being taken advantage of!

I want to be able to sit in a crowded bus by reaching for the seat first and not in the female specific seats, without having to squeeze in to as little space as I can because of your unwanted touch!

I want to be able to help my mom with the household chores, not because I am a girl, but because I see her helping my dad with the same!

I also want you to treat me as a human, and hence worry about me in a healthy way if you want to.. but not in a way that slows me down or locks me up in the chains of chauvinism or feminism! 

I want to be able to be me without your sympathy or your permission.. because my life is mine to live and not yours.. so I’ll not say let me be! No, I’ll be me despite of you. I think it’s time for humanism!