Women's Day

24 March 2010

It was Women’s Day not long ago, and my mind was crowded with thoughts, arguments and counter arguments on the Women’s rights and equality and other issues. This whole argument, about who is superior – Woman or Man is so stale, I am sick of it…. It just gets to me!!! Whose larger than life egos are we trying to satisfy by establishing superiority over each other, even over other species and nature at large? Why does one always have to be better than the other? Why this never ending need to belittle each other to feel powerful? Why crush the other to rise higher? Why seek from and give respect to those who do the most disrespectful disgracing acts?

Human beings are differently gifted by God, and they do not follow the laws of a jungle where one is at the top of a food chain and the other at the bottom, where one is mightier than the other and only the fittest survives. The ‘society’ that we‘ve made for ourselves is an incredible precious gift. It is capable of
Yet a large number of civilised and uncivilised, educated, uneducated and undereducated, over privileged and under privileged encompassing, accepting and embracing even the weakest and the meekest, giving every man, woman and child equal opportunity. We can make this happen. ‘We’ are the society and we can be the change we want to see!!

Even today a large number of civilised and uncivilised, educated, undereducated and uneducated, literate and illiterate, over privileged and underprivileged, cultured and uncultured, losers and achievers, men and women, continue to suppress, oppress, exploit and inflict unimaginable forms of cruelty, physically and emotionally on each other. We are always keenly interested in and inclined to establishing supremacy among ourselves. In doing so we give ourselves the license to crush and kill- other’s thoughts, emotions, needs, freedom and independence. We take pleasure in this torture. Shame on us sadists!! WE are the stigma!!!! We can’t live in harmony with each other, among ourselves, forget doing that with Nature!!