More Power to you Girl

                  

“I am a strong woman. I don’t sit around feeling sorry for myself, nor let people mistreat me. I don’t respond to people who dictate to me or try to bring me down. If I fall, I will rise up even stronger because I am survivor and not a victim. I am in control of my life and there is nothing I can’t achieve.” - Unknown

This content has been inspired by some of the incredible women around me and is based on my honest interactions with them. Am sure you would relate to these as somewhere in your life, you must have known and felt the power of women. Basically, they are the most influential women in my life, and I owe this write up to them as mark of respect and gratitude.

The biggest influence in my life is my mother, she continues to inspire and motivate with me each day, even today. She lost her mother (my grand mother) at a very early age, but that could not shake her, she won gold medal in her university and was appointed as a lecturer. She was an excellent lecturer, but she left her high-profile job, just to be with my father (who was serving Indian Army) and to take care of my elder sister. I don’t recall ever in my childhood she regrets her decision. As once me and my sister grew older, she served as primary teacher in some school. Although, she had a lot of potential, but she chose to raise her children and take care of the family gracefully.

Her struggles in life were never ending, apart from financial crunches and other family responsibilities the biggest blow was losing my father to cancer. However, like a warrior both my parents fought it for seven long years. Me and my sister were married by then, so she alone took best care of my father, but finally they succumbed to the destiny.After losing father, she almost lost major part within herself, but still she kept a brave front and today she continues to live her life gracefully by actively participating NGO and other charity work.

Another woman who has inspired me always is a very famous author, her husband’s infidelity was a big blow to her, still she continued to stay with him for sake of their daughter and on her own terms. She made her mark herself and today is one of the bestselling authors. She channelized her energy, disappointment and frustration into words of her books.

Another childhood friend of mine, she is an air force pilot, a victim of domestic violence, fought back for her rights and evolved out to be more strong, independent and fierce. Currently, she stays happily wither her daughter and not a single day she feels absence of any companion. She is self-sustainable and is not affected with the world around.

Another close friend of mine, who is often troubled by her in laws for dowry, after years of tolerating all that quietly she has now lodged a police complaint and taught good lesson to her in laws and is now relatively is at peace with her life. With her creative streak, she now exhibits her paintings and earn money and happiness.

Manana, my friend was molested at a very young age, today is an active woman activist who make under privileged children aware of their rights and spread awareness in schools and colleges. She has learned from her experiences and does not want any girl child to be a victim again.

Maya, a senior vice president in top Multi National Company was divorced after 2-3 years of her marriage. She did not succumb to the family pressures of remarriage. She stays happy and ensure she goes on an international trip every 6 months, stay happy and enjoy her life to the fullest.

Mira, is a famous Bollywood actress now, have done number of commercials and web series, after doing course in journalism she came to Mumbai to peruse her dreams. With no film background and God father, she worked hard, fought depression and made her mark in today’s world. Her strong vision and focus helped cope up her depression and chase her dreams.

To sum up, we women in our lives somewhere or the other experience either of these emotions like molestation, loosing husband or child, infidelity, divorce, domestic violence, dowry, remarriage, family pressures, depression etc., but we all come out of it in our own ways. The essence of my writing this story was to tell that women are born empowered; they just need to explore their rights and be aware of their potential and grab required opportunities.  Be it a professional or home maker, we women have been engineered beautifully and if we will not understand our potential and stretch beyond our comfort’s levels, we will rust. We women our anchors of our family, we need to be happy to ensure our families are happy.

We should take out time for our self, sit, pause and contemplate. Take the reins in hand and decide which direction is headed to and where we really must go?

Is there anything which we can skip, delegate or ignore for self-contentment & happiness? Could we start fresh or can we revisit our hobbies?

We need not read books or watch some inspirational stories to understand what women can do, if we just look around the women around us, we can easily derive happiness and life lessons from them.

I just wish all my fellow ladies a great life and wish them more and more power!

“We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can be free.” – Kavita Ramdas!