Sometimes it hits you exactly in your core. The realisation that you just not have that one person with whom you are never going to be angry, the person who gets your mood even before you realise, and someone to whom you can rant everything out.
I was waiting for my feelings to go numb
I was waiting for that day but I was dumb
I thought that with each day the wound would grow old
I expected that each day would make me cold
But little I realised
And very little I was surprised
With each passing day
My feelings started spreading like a ray
It reached ever nook and corner of my existence
But I was still hoping with persistence
It was so difficult to feel
The reason I thought time would heal
Soon I had a lot of opinions
Surprisingly they made me cry more than onions
Soon the tree of feeling got a strong hold
Now I knew nothing was going to get old
All experiences and incidents
Were giving my wounds new dents
Crying became a constant part of my lifestyle
Funny enough that it was just a more defined form of my old style
I didn't know what to do with so much going on inside
Never realised it would be so much more than what was going outside
Checking and rechecking all emotions
Hide and seek with everything was in motion
Defining the ideas I had was important
Knowing I was right was like a reinforcement
I knew the wounds are not going now
But still adapting raised the question how
Connecting dots was a daily routine
Adulting is much more difficult than being a teen
Sensations, feelings and emotions are always going to be difficult for me
But when I introspect I realise it makes me, me.
Sorry but I care
I know the anger on my face kills you
I know my rude ways make you sad
But do I have a choice
Every word I speak out of love you take for granted
Every thing I ask as a well-wisher you consider nagging
Yes the world exist and you need to bother about it
But how to explain that in front of that world I see you
Your pain and problems are my concerns
The worldly affairs don't worry me
I thought our relation was different and we shared a special bond
But every time you hide your pains you just break another chord
I know I am not the best nor I stand for you without rest
But yes I feel and your moods make a great lot of deal
Seeing people bother you, grieves me equally as it does to you
But just because I don't say doesn't mean I cannot feel you
You always think I don't care or understand
While in reality I am just confused how to take a stance
I don't know what to do because you never express your expectations
And when I share my expectations you just consider it insecurities
I know I am not what you want and I know I cannot be what you want
This is what aches me brings the anger to my face, the rudeness in my ways
Sorry for all of that
But I care is all I have
I hate marriages I say
Because not everyone is lucky in Pam's way
It's hard to find love which never looks away
It's hard to get Jim who always stays
A person who knows that he is best for you
But steps away to let you choose
A person who always wants you to grow
No matter how many days you are away in a row
A person who accepts you all
The fierce you, the timid you, the clumsy you the beautiful you, the failed you, the successful you, and the complete haul
A person who can comfort you
A person who can love you
A person for whom your smile is a lucky charm
A person who is willing to let you sleep on his arm
A person with whom valentine's day fight also seems a plan
A person whose leaving is more painful than he being an angry man
Yes I want my children to know we are soulmates and it is no less than fairytales
I want to tell them stories of our dates
I don't know what else to say
But finding a person for whom you are not enough but everything seems like an impossible way
Someone asked about my ideal type and I didn't know what to say.
I only knew a single name that I didn't want to take.
The world is pretty miserable around but recently I found some hope, it was not some mental thought but a person. We tend to derive positive emotions from the people who are close to us or those we love but this person was actually nothing more than an acquaintance, he was neither my love nor my friend or family. He was just an acquaintance, a person who was around me because he was supposed to be. Now coming to why he was a ray of hope. While growing up we start losing our innocence, our happy vibe and energy, we get burdened by responsibility and so on but this person was different, he was in his 20s but his eyes were innocent as a 2 years old, he was also going through enough but his smile was enough to wash your pains. This feeling I got while being around him was different, he was warm as a winter sun. It never felt like things would go wrong around him, I know I was in a different place then but he was enough to give me hope.
Whenever I come across a new word, my first approach towards understanding it, is through the kind of words it is related to or the impression that word has on me. And only when I don't find either of it, I go for the dictionary. So, when I came across this word "FEMINISM" my basic approach told me that it is a word related to females and it's impression was that, it is related to some bigger cause. Therefore for a very long time the meaning of feminism for me was supporting women and their growth. But little did I know that this small word means something completely different.
Feminism as I now know is supporting equal rights to both the sexes. Yes, the meaning I earlier made out really seems correct because eventually females are the oppressed class and if we help them grow then the meaning of feminism will be fulfilled. But still this approach lacks the real essence. I mean personally I don't want a single place to give women preferential treatment, I don't even like the reserved seats in bus for women, because if you are reserving seat for women then why not you label the other seats as reserved for men. The truth is even if we ask the government to label the other seats as men's seat they won't, because it will make men look weak, it will make them look as the class of society who needs preference/reservation in such basic things, especially when they are "strong" enough to stand in the bus all through the journey (which they definitely don't do but they are strong enough). I think labelling seats as reserved for pregnants, sick patients and elderly is the correct approach. I don't know what you think but for me indirectly getting labelled as weak who needs support is not feminism at all.
I know that we are not biologically same, we have our differences and no matter what, they won't change. But when men and women can climb the same Mt. Everest, why can't they achieve the same respect in society. My question is why does a female manager gets less wages than a male manager, even when the man manages just his office while a woman manages her family and office together. I have heard people discuss greatly of single dads but a woman is always a single mom. I agree that time is changing dads are more involved now but still in most of the Indian households it is still the mother who is responsible for a child's health, education, upbringing, etc the only contribution dad's have is giving money and majority of women can earn that also now. Still I haven't heard a single person saying "she brought up her kid alone". So no appreciation at work or home for females, and that's precisely what needs to be changed.
There are so many causes which we take under the movement of feminism but in reality belong to the movement of humanity. Do you think domestic violence is something feminists should fight for or humanists should fight for? Like as a feminist I must have one approach that I don't care if domestic violence is considered correct but if it is correct then women should also get a chance and not be judged for beating up their husbands. Like that is what we are asking "equal rights". So for me it is something humanists should fight for and not feminists. I guess you would have understood by this description that there are so many things, so many instances and moments where we women are not even treated like humans. So, yes how can we jump on getting equal rights if we are not even getting basic human rights.
This is why the meaning of feminism is so blurry because we have to fight for basic rights first then only we can aim for equal rights. In all this, I am still against reservation for women because anyhow labelling us weak is not true to the essence of feminism. I am clearly against undermining the good men by accusing "all men". I am against not fighting those women who act even worsely than men and are the biggest hater of a woman's growth. So today and everyday I ask the world to treat me as they would treat a woman, but to end all differences between a man and a woman. I think most of the women, girls, females want the same thing.
In an ideal world I hope that all men and women are equally appreciated, supported and treated. I hope there are more scenarios where we act as humans and not men or women. I hope we could clear the gender boundaries at workplaces, public places and become more respectful of each other. We don't have to worry because all consider each other as humans respect each other's rights and existence. Most importantly we don't have to fight for basic human respect.
Do you ever wake up with the feeling that a lot is lost
It's summer but you still feel the frost
Everything and everyone is around
But you still can't listen a sound
It's not your life but a trap
You are actually a piece of crap
Your to do list is overflowing
Your courage to start something is slowly going
It's not like you have to start afresh
But where you are standing now, seems nothing more than a mess
Your ambitions are enthusiastically parading
Even though all your motivation is fading
You are somehow willing to leave
But just too scared to believe
Supporting hands seems to tease
Ah! hope you knew, who you want to please
Feel like you have an empty soul
You are too tired to feel not only this but all
You want to speak
Although you are scared that your secret of being a coward might leak
You are not a loser, ofcourse
But you also know that a winner doesn't have such remorse
Feeling anxious because something reminded me that I am not special & irreplaceable for the people who are special & irreplaceable to me.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I have heard a lot of people explain one sided love
But never heard anyone even talk about one sided friendship
Did you?
Honestly speaking I have been on both ends
I remember ignoring people even when they were ready to loose all for me
I remember being ignored even when I was ready to loose all of me
Did you?
Still think about going back and joining those chords
But what are the odds
Those I ignored have moved on tired of wasting their time
And those on whom I wasted my time never seemed mine
But still I wish for their call
Do you?
I find it weird how we just connect to some
I find it sad when those connections don't care and for them you are not the one
I thought love asked for a lot
but now I think even friendship's demands are not a dot
Do you?
Maybe they asked for so much that I just stayed aloof
Maybe my demands were so much that they considered me fool
Being nice and being friends are different I realised late
Not everyone you like is ready to be a part of your fate
Were you also a one sided friend at one time?
Do you also think that it was worth the time?
What if the efforts were not equal,
It was a friendship you initiated and it will never have a sequel...