Wishlist Wednesday - 3

This post is in response to the creative prompt "Wishlist Wednesday", hosted by renowned author Preeti Shenoy on her blog justamotheroftwo.blogspot.in. Her latest book has been released and going by the reviews, i feel it's a must-read for all readers specially the fans of Preeti Shenoy.

 

 The prompt for this week is "The one thing that i wish everyone would learn is.."

We live in a society where,

• We crave for a son, daughters are treated as a burden. 
• We allow sons to go out at night but our daughters should be home before 6pm. 
• We tell our daughters how to dress, how to talk, whom to be friends with but we never tell our sons to respect women 
• We all want a sister, girlfriend, wife, mother but we don't want a daughter 
• We pray to Goddess Durga to protect us, we pray to Goddess Laxmi to bless us with money and prosperity, We pray to Goddess Saraswati to give us knowledge BUT we don't want a girl child. 
• A single mom is looked down upon but a single dad is showered with praises
• A woman is robbed of her dignity and fingers are still pointed at her not at the man who committed the crime
• A daughter is not allowed to live her dreams but a son gets everything without even asking
• The decisions are taken by man and woman is bound to follow it, if she doesn't, she is punished.
  
  and so the list goes on and on and on...

The one thing that i wish everyone would learn is to treat man and woman as equals

It's high time that society starts giving woman the place that they deserve. We are in an era where man and woman are equals and they should be treated as equals. Today's woman not only manages home but also goes out and work. She is independent and has a voice of her own. People really need to change their mindsets. We should stop discriminating between a son and daughter. There is nothing which a son can do and a daughter cannot. And lastly DAUGHTERS ARE NOT A BURDEN. They love you and care for you selflessly. They care for you when your own son disowns you. 

I am a GIRL and I am a SINGLE CHILD. 

This is something which i am proud of. I am proud of my parents. I am proud of the fact that at a time when the whole society was/is busy in killing girls in mother's womb, they went ahead and gave birth to me. They never treated me as a load. The are proud of me and i wish i continue to make them proud.

A man might be stronger than woman physically but mentally and emotionally a woman has much more strength than a man can even imagine.

This is one song which i absolutely love.
Composed by Vishal Bharadwaj and sung by Master Saleem, this song is an ode to the multi-faceted personality of a woman.
In this male dominated society lets not forget the contribution made by woman in our lives.