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.

Wish that came true :)

Some wishes when fulfilled gives you so much joy that can't be expressed in words.  
My one wish that came true and gave me immense joy was when i got my best friend back. 

I spent two years wondering what went wrong between us, why she was angry with me..i blamed myself that maybe i had done something wrong. But in these 2 years all i wished was that for once she came and talked to me so that we could sort out things. Even in those two years, she used to wish me on my birthday, or when my semester results were announced but never for once she came and talked to me personally. I felt bad, real bad not only because i had lost my best friend but because i knew that she knew, i being an introvert would never be able to talk to her and despite that she never took the first step towards mending our relation. I used to cry on my birthdays, i used to cry whenever her topic came, i just wished she knew how much she mattered to me. I hoped that someday we will be friends like before. I missed her, i missed the sandwiches she used to make for me, i used to miss all the crazy things we did. I wanted to go and confront her but when i saw that she was happy with her other friends, i just couldn't gather the courage to spoil her happiness.

But life surprises you with something good when you least expect it. Two years later when college ended, i messaged her and poured my heart out, and the funny thing was she was never angry with me!! All these years she too wanted to talk to me, she too wanted to end every misunderstanding, she too suffered as i did, she too wished that i talk to her just once! And if hadn't messaged her that day , maybe i would have never found out the truth. If i would have gathered the courage before, may be we would have never grown apart in the first place!

We lost two years of our beautiful friendship and that too because of a stupid misunderstanding by a third person!! The day i learned the truth i was on seventh cloud!! My best friend was back in my life..but yeah the two years we lost changed the equation we had..but it doesn't take much time for two best friends to bounce back and be crazy like before ;) 

"when destiny forgets to tie some people in blood relations, it corrects its mistake by making them great friends"

Sometimes in life, you reach a point where some misunderstandings ruin your relationship with people who mean the world to you and the most frustrating part is when you don't even know the reason why you grew apart. 

It just happens out of the blue. Suddenly one day, two best friends decide to stop talking to each other. Why it happened? How it happened? No one knows. Though they both still care for each other. They feel happy when something good happens in other person's life, they wish each other on birthdays, but still they don't have the courage to go and talk to that person. What is it that stops them? 

Ego? Friendship and ego don't go hand in hand.. 

Fear of not being understood? Maybe..

They spend all their time thinking about each other, cry their nights away, fight with God as to why he made them best friends-turned-strangers; without realizing that everything can be sorted out if just for once they sit face-to-face and talk. You realize the real worth of a person when that person is no longer a part of your life. You realize how much he/she means to you when you spend night after night just wishing for them to be back.  

Life gave me a second chance but not everyone is that lucky. Never ever let go of a relationship due to misunderstandings. Talk, fight, scream, cry.. but don't just let it go so easily. 

 

This post is written for the creative prompt "Wishlist Wednesday", hosted by renowned author Preeti Shenoy on her blog justamotheroftwo.blogspot.in.
Wishing her all the best for her new book "The Secret Wishlist" :)

Wishes - Your best friends for life

"Har kisi ko mukammal jahan nahi milta, 

kisi ko zameen, kisi ko aasman nahi milta.." - silsila

Everyone does not get everything in life. May be that's why wishes never end. Everyone has wishes not one, not two but innumerable. Be it a millionaire or a beggar, wishes don't differentiate between rich and poor. Wishlists just keeps on increasing, even if you have achieved one wish, a new wish comes up to take its place. And we humans survive more on wishes rather than oxygen!! 

But on second thoughts if you don't have a wish, your life turns out to be quite boring as then you won't have anything to look forward to.

 

"The Secret Wishlist" is the latest offering by the renowned author Preeti Shenoy and i am sure people are going to love this novel just like the previous ones. She is hosting a creative prompt "Wishlist Wednesdays" and the prompt for this week is  

"the three things i badly wish i could have are..." which made me thinking about my wishes.

What are my wishes?  Though three wishes are too less, but the things i badly wish i could have are:

1. My life - I want my life back!! I wish i could live my life on my own terms without bothering about what others feel, what society thinks, what is right, what is wrong, what should i do, what i should not do, etc etc. It is my life and i should decide how to live it, no matter whether the outcome is positive or negative, at the end of the day I'll have the experience. If i won't make mistakes now then how will i grow! Its a long battle. *sigh*

2. A mini-library - With so many novels in my room i will need a library soon or else i would have to sleep outside!! :D

3. Mind Reader - Wish i could read minds, life would have been less complicated but much more interesting. Imagine people being extra sweet to you and you can read exactly whats going on in their head! ;) :D

Wishes reminds me of this dialogue from the movie Anjaana Anjaani:

woh wish hi kya jo aasan ho,
woh wish hi kya jo aasan ho,
jise paane mein na ho thodi si ladai,
mile toh lage kuch hai paya,
warna zindagi toh humne bas yun hi bitayi..

P.S. I wish everyone's wishes come true :) 

The Story Untold

She was young and he was old
there was a story untold..

She laughed and enjoyed her life,
unaware of the impending danger
innocently believed in everything,
like a child who loves everyone
unaware of the complexities of life,
but one day her belief went down the drain
when he tried to use her for his gain,
she was afraid to find
the person whom she trusted
was actually a monster in disguise,
she knew what he did was wrong
but couldn't find the courage to remove his mask,
she cursed him all day all night long
but she didn't knew whatever happened would stay with her for long.

She was young and he was old
there was a story untold..

She grew up and started living again,
but the memory of that day was etched in her brain,
she tried to forget but couldn't succeed,
but she had the strength to move on and so she did.

She was young and he was old
there was a story untold..

One day she met a boy,
and fell in love or so she thought,
they laughed, cried and fought
but the love kept them together,
she told him the story untold,
he was furious, wanted a revenge
from the monster who did wrong,
she said to forget it and lets move on.

Time flew and days passed,
she realized he didn't understand her
even after knowing the truth,
he did things which made her come face to face with her past,
her belief once again shattered
and she grew apart,

she cursed that monster
who ruined her life, 

and murdered her soul,
she breathes but does not live

smiles but is not happy,

trusts but is scared

for history may repeat itself,

she just sits and

waits for the justice to be done..

She was young and he was old
and the story has now been told..

Kuch baatein ankahi
dil mein hai chupi
kehna bhi na chahu par chup bhi na reh paun
beetein pal lauta de koi mujhe
mera woh bachpan jo chin gaya
wo pyar jo mujhe na mila
kyu hai sab mujhse roothe huye
yeh hai mera dosh ya hai kismat ka koi khel
jo beshumar dosto mein bhi ek dost na mila
pyar ki huyi barish par pyar na mila
udaasi ki bheed mein
khushiyan kho gayi
ye duniya na jaane kab itni matlabi jo ho gayi..

English Translation:

Some words unsaid,

remain hidden inside my heart,

don't want to say them yet can't hide them,

i long for the moments gone by,

that childhood which i lost,

that love which i didn't get,

why is everyone upset with me,

have i done something wrong or is it destiny playing its game?

how come i haven't got a single friend among the thousands?

how come i didn't got love when love is all around me?

in this gloomy world,

my happiness got lost,

don't know when world turned out to be so selfish..

 

P.S. Completed two beautiful years in the blogging world.. :) Time flies so fast!!