Saturday, October 16, 2010

remorse

beep beep... u get a message ... "oh the same forward".."delete"... new message .. "same..delete"..
after a siginificant period of time .. the same message ...

"A GIRL IS LIKE A BIRD, GOD's MOST PRETTIEST CREATION IN THE WORLD.

THE CHILDHOOD OF GIRLS IS THEIR GOLDEN AGE.
AFTER THAT, THE WORLD KEEPS THEM INTO BEAUTIFUL CAGE.

THIS INNOCENT CREATURE, LOOKS LIKE A FAIRY.
WHO LOSES HER FEATHER WHEN SHE MARRY.

SHE LEADS ALL HER LIFE IN SERVING OTHERS
SHE ALSO HAS A HEART BUT NONE BOTHERS.

A DRESS OF HAPPINESS & PLEASURE SHE WEARS.
BUT IN EVERY CORNER, YOU FIND A GIRL SHEDDING TEARS.

MORAL: ALWAYS GIVE GIRLS THE DUE RESPECT THEY DESERVE. FORWARD EVERY1 TO MAKE THEM REALISE THE IMPORTANCE OF A GIRL. "

u read it..fully..word by word.. n u think who mite have written it(atleast i think that)
i think this message was definitely composed by an indian since the word "wear" and "tear" does not rhyme, taking into consideration their actual pronunciation and also because of the word "cage" - a very famous attribute in indian female history.
Me being curious about the creator of this message abstracts the whole point of this post.
Anyways i am not a big fan of this particular message, neither i am a female rights activist(which sometimes i wish i should have been). And also i do not fall in anti-men category.
But I couldn't help myself wondering what made this guy/girl write this message. Because i was thinking half the same when i got this message. Did he/she actually knew wht he was writing?
Ofcourse childhood is a golden age for every kid. Why childhood is specially important for girls? It is because afterthen, they are naturally compelled to follow a routine that they never wished for. Because god(even after giving the divine beauty to some) did not compensate with the endless natural tribulations that a female has to go through. The childhood is all they have to be as free as they can never be afterthen...to be lively...to live years that are without boundations(please note natural boundations). The years that follow the golden age work as the makers of a girl's personality. Her parents are most vital human ingredients to shape her future, then comes the siblings, relatives, teachers and friends she is surrounded by. Suddenly parents and others realise that she is not a kid, she is a "GIRL" even when she is 13. Crossed the teens just to come under strict boundaries. Grows older , boundaries increases. Even if she has her own career(that means lets take new modern females into consideration), they have boundaries in offices. Dont kill me but law has provided girls with boundaries too. Lets go rural and lets go deeper into shit.
The point is call a girl "modern" or "ancient" or "rural" .. boundaries for females are set. First god's own boundaries, then parent's, then world's.
Now any sort of molestation ruins the whole integrity of qualities that a person possess. Imagine a little girl enjoying her early years and bam! someone had to satisfy his own desperate needs. Or a girl balancing herself with changing conditions and bam! the worst that could happen. A girl trying her best to make efforts in her career, and bam! the colleagues rather wish her to be beside them just like the girl beside the expensive car in the hot commercials. Distorted, tormented. She either becomes a "bitch" or a "bimbo"(sorry for explicit language). She had to be. There are just lucky few who never had gone through such a process or had the capability of not to realise it. Hence this is my request to all those who adore barney stinson "from HIMYM" to charlie "from two and a half men" ..that even though we are laughing because everything is light, girls are bimbos or bitches because of some reason. Ofcourse with so much of diversity on earth we cant really predict what is what. But it is definitely the general trend.
We can definitely give our respect to girls "not just by pulling chairs or opening doors" but by realising what actually goes around them and by respecting who they are.
I wonder an abstract thought that if the whole world had done something better than concentrating their enormous attention on a girl's limits, there might have been a girl discovering gravity(ofcourse madame curie-the radium girl was a female, all i am saying is more no. of girls would have had the ability to think of a bigger picture than figuring out their own traumas and lives).
I know world has changed and girls are no far behind. But can u think of any stage when they are actually at the same step? Lets get real.
1000s of articles have already been written and given as speeches about the same matter without much of a difference. But I jus did my bit, with hope but no expectations.
I truely believe that if you feel strongly about something, you should concentrate on the action rather than words. But i couldnt help but to write about this. This goes for the few moments when i could have helped a girl but i couldnot. I deeply regret that. Just wishing god to give me enough strength and opportunities.

Friday, October 1, 2010

SAVING THE FEELING

Sometimes somethings are just so near you, that you should by all means get aquainted with, since they are meant specially for you but you wil only realise it until later.
Thousands of incidents have happened to me when I feel this has been with me all along but never did i pay much attention to what it really encapsulates.Its like god wants you to SAVE THE FEELING for a better time..for a better moment.
If to give an instance i would like to share this -
For this to understand i have to give this certain backgorund that me (shruti) is wierdly attracted towards her music. And this that evry1 has something that they are very close to and possesive about. And music is something that evokes, modifies all my feelings. And this is not totally wierd bcoz i have met people who share the same thing as me.:D
Nywys
Once(around my 9th grade) me and one of my few friends that i enjoy sharing my music with, were disussing music as we always did during recess. She always suggested a classic rock and i added up a blues'. That day she also got NIRVANA's cd and put it into my bag. I told her not to give me - as then for me the word rock just meant banging drums..screaming guitar and crazy vocalist. She told me "shruti you have to give attention to this one" on such a serious note that i was dumbstruck for 2 seconds and then passed my quick judgement abt rock but took the cd just so not to hurt her feelings.
I took the cd but never did I try to listen what was in there. Days passed and i gave her d cd back.
She asked me if i liked it n i lied "yes" and she said "one day whenever you wil listen to these tracks, you will call me" .. i had some wierd feeling but as we alwz do wen we are teenagers- i told her to cut the crap.
Years later one of my then-new-friends told me to listen to kurt cobain.. til then i so did not want to listen to anything about rockstars because all i could interpret from their visuals was to unnecessarily get frustrated about meaningless things. I considered rock as just another version of pop culture. totally meaningless, hopeless and souless. He emphasized with great degrees how much i would like it.. but i have been more stubborn in my past.
I had tracks with me all along . But i never bothered to click them.
I also remember my friends praising kurt and putting past tense to every verb they used for kurt. But i never put my attention to things that are not of my interest.
Few months back i went to a club(not xactly! but i have no other term to define it) .. I saw this huge poster of kurt .. i kept staring at it(I had no clue it was him) .. I forgot who was with me and what is going on around...(same that happens in typical movies but it was true)
Months later i.e NOW i remembered that poster i asked my friend who was that poster of and he said "Kurt".. with the power we hold now a days, I googled Kurt.. his biography..his pics..eventually i read about his death .. about his suicide..about his life.. about his songs .. I got so much into him .. I wasted (not the term i want to use but my EXAMS were on!) my whole day i got free as a study leave, in googling everything about Kurt. Finally I heard the tracks.. "Rape Me"..david bowie's version of "The man who sold the world" .. "Jesus does not want me for his sunbeam"... I cried some small tears. I called up my old friend ( I talked to her after 6 years, we had a mojor setback) and although she must have been surprised to a great extent, the ego that comes..went away in a flash and all we left far behind came rushing by. I could look at the greater aspect... GOD JUST WANTED ME TO SAVE THE FEELING.