International Women’s Day: Sometimes happiness, sometimes sadness! What is it like to be a woman?

What’s it like to be a woman? If someone asks me, I probably won’t be able to give the same answer. Because being a woman is not just happiness and not just sadness either. It is a mixed feeling of both – sometimes happy, sometimes sad. I am a girl myself. The only daughter in the house after two brothers. I got a lot of love and pampering since childhood.

Many times it felt as if I was the most special person in the house. But amidst this love, there came many such moments when I was made to realize that I am a “girl” and just this word sometimes changes a lot.

When being a girl makes you happy

To be honest, being a girl also has its own beautiful aspects. Being the only daughter in the house means being loved by everyone. Special attention of parents, protection of brothers and love of family. I remember in my childhood, if I became even a little sad, everyone at home would start asking what happened? Why are you sad? Perhaps this is the reason why I always felt that being a girl is also a special place.

Many times I was even saved from some work. It was said, “Hey, let it be, don’t do this.” At that time I felt how good it was that everyone cared so much. But gradually I started to understand that this was just a part of the story.

‘You are a girl’

There are many small moments in life when without any reason you are reminded that you are a girl. Like someone says, “You only will do this work.” Or “Can’t you even give food to your brother?” At that time only one question comes to my mind. Has brother ever given me food? I have never had a problem with working. There is nothing wrong in doing household work. But the problem lies with that thinking, where work is not made a responsibility but the duty of being a girl. Many times it seems that if a boy does the same work then it is called “help”, and if a girl does it then it becomes a “duty”.

to remain silent even when one is right

There is another truth of being a woman. Remaining silent even after being right many times. Many times it happens that you know that you are right, but the environment is created in such a way that you are not able to speak. Or if you speak, you are considered wrong. Gradually we learn that it is better to remain silent on some things. But the truth is also that somewhere inside every girl this question always remains, why?

After all, what is it to be a woman?

If I were asked today what it means to be a woman, I would say – it’s a pleasure sometimes, when someone understands you. It is sad sometimes, when you are silenced without any reason. This is love as well as responsibility. This is both strength and sensitivity. But the most important thing is to be a woman, not to be bound by any limits, but to create your own identity. And perhaps this is what every girl, every woman lives in her own way – every day, every moment.