Saturday, March 8, 2014

Women -- On Eve of Women's day

On the eve of Women's Day wanted to write something about them. I didnt know where to start but here I start. I was most often misinterpreted as too conservative outlook on life and extending the same to views on women. On the contrary I have great respect for the women and will try to depict my views.

1. Women form very important part of our lives. Life is difficult to imagine with out them right from nurturing the infact in the form of a caring mother, a sibling and close buddy in growing up, a supportive partner in life, a venturing
colleague sharing work load in march to success, to a daughter whose life we want to secure and protect.

2. Mother happens to be playing a more crucial role in building character of the person. We would have not seen Sivaji's, Swami Vivekananda's, Rabindranath Tagore or Mahatma Gandhi, if their mothers did not play their part so well.

3. The Siblings and childhood buddy's are all the way helping us in petty as well as huge problems that put us off many a times. Their softer and relatively mature touch to problems have let us in feeling of awe many a times as we grew up.

4. In undeniable fact that any great thing a man accomplishes would have been impossible, if not for the support and encouragement he receives from the wife. Many sacrifices made behind the scenes by the family and stable family life are usual commonalities shared by many successful men.

5. Having worked in different organizations for over a decade, I can very confidently say, the women colleagues bring all together fresh perspective to work. I always admire the way they perform their roles so exceptionally well at both work and home. And more importantly they rarely complain about it.

6. My real planning for life (including financial/career) only started in full flow after I have seen cute little face of my daughter. Some new feeling of responsibility that I needed to do all in my capacity to secure her future started that moment.

Few words of caution/conservatism:

World has transformed today and is no longer an ideal place to live. I would want women to be more vigilant in life.

1. Be careful about the camouflages. They on the outside look like nicer people but have got evil intentions that are hard to predict.

2. Be little conservative. Conservatism might look like curtailing you in demonstrating your full capability. But realize that it is infact a mechanism to avoid any big catastrophe.

3. Be yourself. You don't have to take up something out of peer pressure or family pressure or self induced pressure.

4. Do not expect or accept any concessions for being a women. You really don't need it.

5. Handle emotions well. Not to say that all women are fragile but my observation is most of them are.

6. Working or Homemaker but understand the finances well. Don't be fully dependent on husband/father/siblings. They can make bad decisions too.

7. One specific thing for adolescent/young, be cautious about life. Decisions made out of thrill, emotions like love/anger can impact lives of self as well as near and dear.