International Women's Day

Dear Men,

As some of you would know, March 8^th is International Women's Day.

We don’t want you to buy us gifts, or send some cute messages or pictures wishing us on this day. Nor do we need any of you to pamper us or anything. What we would sincerely need you to do is start respecting us. And not just tomorrow. We would appreciate if we can get this every single day.

We don't think it's much to ask for. In the light of all the increase in crimes against women, we think it's high time that something be done against these crimes. Honestly, we can make all the videos and posts on Social media networking sites. But trust me this will not help much.

It might create awareness, but we don't just need that, we need strict action so that the perpetrators are severely punished.

Respect all women, irrespective of whether we are your Mothers, sisters, wives or daughters. This is our only wish.

Yours sincerely,

Women.

Home

So you all have probably heard of the proverb: "Home is where the heart is" .But the other day, I came across another quote by Jodi Picoult, which made more sense: “Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love” 

There are so many people who may have a house or rather many houses, but very few actually have a home. And this is because not all of their houses are filled with people they love or people who love them.

There are many people who are away from their home/ family / loved ones, maybe because of a job or because of their studies, but they still manage to find "home" where they are. And how would you say that's possible. It’s because they have found people who they love and who love them.

That is why some people say I have found my "second home”.

Without the people, it would not be a home, it would just be a house /a building /an office /a hostel.

If you just think about it, you might just realize

how lucky you are if you can say that you have found "home", no matter where you are.

It's Woman not Woe-man!!

Aren’t you all just tired of reading the papers every single day? There has to be some news of rape, molestation, dowry death, etc. I’m sick of it and I seriously don’t know when it will end. Perhaps the only way to stop this is I women go and live on another planet. But why should we run and hide. We have every right to live on this planet as much as Men do.

I was just thinking if there is any category of women who would be safe against such atrocities and I realised there is none. Because it doesn’t matter what age your are or what sort of clothes you are wearing or what time of the day it is, there are monsters out there. It wouldn’t if you are related to the rapist or we wouldn’t hear stories where fathers rape their own daughters or uncles / cousins rape their own nieces/ cousins. It wouldn’t matter if you are married or single, cause then you wouldn’t hear of marital rapes or dowry related deaths.

I pity those who are making all these videos and pictures trying to make the rapists feel shameful and all. To be honest, I was supporting this and proudly sharing these links on my Facebook wall. But then it dawned on me that some of these offenders don’t even understand English and yet all these videos are in English.And some of them perhaps don’t even have access to the Internet .

Even if they did, why the hell would they waste their time watching a video that would make them feel ashamed. They’d rather be surfing some sleazy website or sending frandship requests to someone.Like seriously I think we should stop with all these videos and all cause I think they are making women seem more helpless than anything. Some of these b#stards might watch the videos and think “Haha what fools these people are, we are going to do whatever the fuck we want anyway!!”

So then how can we stop these crimes from happening? There is only one answer to that stricter laws and punishment for all these crimes. So instead of wasting our time making videos about all the issues, why not do something to make the law more stringent. Maybe people have already tried that and failed, but we have to keep trying or else this will continue. It wouldn’t matter how many times we like, comment and share these videos, as long as these animals are roaming freely out there these crimes will not stop.

Aren't we all fed up of the same damn routine mean seriously I totally am...Sometimes I wonder where my life is headed...Maybe someone has to throw a rock at me to make me wake up cause I feel like a zombie. I’m alive but the monotony has already killed me...

So I thought why not look at every day and try to find some difference...I mean there has to be something different right. It can't all be a deja vu...just like that movie Groundhog Day. God I'd go crazy if my life turned out to be that movie.

Anyway so as I was saying I tried to find some difference in every day.And I found one of doing it was by looking up in the sky ...and I tell you , you will not believe it ,but the sky keeps changing every damn second...I mean I look up and one second it’s all clear and blue with clouds and the next the clouds slowly disappear and the Sun peeks out...It's like magic, I swear ...If you don't believe me then try it yourself..

I bet someone who's been watching me would think I'm a moron because I'm just staring at the sky like I saw a damn UFO or something. Anyway I don't care because it's one way of keeping me sane. It’s a way for me to know that each day or each hour or moment is not the same. And that is a huge relief!!

Well some of you might ask, “What if I don't want to look like a moron staring at the sky, then what should I do." The answer is simple...You can look at anything, maybe a tree that you pass by each day...I bet you each day something would be different. One day the tree could be bare ....one day you will see leaves starting to grow....the next day you might see some flowers growing on the tree ...etc. The main point is that you can chose a subject and obviously it can’t be an inanimate object like a freaking statue or something. It has to be something that moves or grows. It’s up to you really. I’m just glad I have found a way to change my routine.

Cleaning out my closet

So today I decided to clean my closet...finally...after all the procrastination...I decided this was it...it was getting too crowded in there. I guess I needed space for new clothes.

As I was going through the closet I realised that there were some clothes in there that I hadn't worn for a really long time ...days, weeks ,months , years....I had even forgotten I had some of them ...they were way back in my closet...hidden by piles of new clothes that I had bought over the years.

I thought that I had discarded them, but they were right there all this time. Some of them were my favourites, though they would not fit me now. But that is something else.

Why was I unknowingly holding on to these clothes? Did I need them?

This made me realise…that this is how our relationships are sometimes.

We make a lot of friends along these years. Some we keep in touch with regularly or at least try to. Some of these friends are forgotten or in this case pushed to the back of the closet because of various reasons. Maybe we had a silly argument, or we got new friends or both thought “Why should I always bother keeping in touch when he/she isn’t bothered”. Whatever the reason may be. They might be out of touch but they will always be in our hearts and minds somewhere behind all the many different thoughts. We may have forgotten them, but the truth is that they are lying somewhere in the back of your closet just like the clothes you once loved wearing.

We would only realise that they are if we decide to clean the closets of our minds and hearts.

Love or Hate?

Do you know what  love is,

She asked like I had committed a crime.

If only I knew,Then the world would be mine.

Is that your real name,I asked her twice.

Do you know I bled for you

While you stood there looking at me

with those remorseless eyes.

Do you still love me, she asked.

If only I knew I sighed,Then you would be mine.

But alas things have changed, for the better for the worse

I know not coz Im not poet who writes prose.

Inside my head there is a cloud of animosity and it is killing me softly.

I can only scream aloud and hope it doesnt elude me. 

Till  then I'll  bleed out every ignorant word that flows from my mouth

and hope that you see the truth from under those starry eyes

that are so caught up in all the lies.

25 minutes

So today was like any other day...or so I thought ..cause my life seems pretty mundane these days...but I'm not complaining..cause it's not like I've done anything or even attempted to make it any more interesting..Anyway let's not focus on that...let's focus on why I decided to write this today...(yes I'm writing something after ages)..

Today ,just like any other week day , I woke up.. got ready for work, waited in the hot scorching Sun for the bus.The bus arrived and I entered and sat down near my favorite window seat...Music in my ears,,wind in my hair...it was just another day..Then somewhere along the way there was a loud disturbing sound and our bus screeched to a halt...the tire had burst..damn it..I didn't want to be late to work I thought...but as I sat there ...I realized that maybe this happened for a reason..Maybe God wanted me to "take a break" ..though it was for a while..I realized sometimes we rush through life so fast someone needs to make us stop by throwing a brick or in this case a punctured tire..Some of us are just living our lives , not realizing what is going on ...we have become so used to the routine ...like robots or zombies...we do not realize that it is affecting our relationships with people or our health..we have become so self-absorbed....we all want to climb the ladder to success quickly...

And suddenly I wasn't so worried about reaching late to work or what I would say to my Boss...I just closed my eyes and was lost in my own World, listening to some of my favorite music..For those 25 odd minutes I felt the world stopped spinning and I wished it would stay that way...But alas my my peaceful time came to a halt when sometime shouted "Everyone please get down , move into another bus"...