✳️We women have been handed the rules of the game from generation to generation.
✳️We are told what we can and cannot do., what is right and what is not right for us.
✳️For every step we take, we are bombarded with questions about the how’s and why’s of our lives:
❓Why do you want to work so far away.
❓Why do you want to work in this role
❓Why do you bring back work at home?
❓Why do you work so late?
❓Why do you need to go to the office party?
❓Why don’t you work from home?
❓How are you going to travel alone?
❓How will you do field work?
❓How will you manage home and office.
❓How will you come home late at night.
❓How can you leave your kids behind.
❓How will you drive the car at night.
❓How can you decide yourself .
🤔The naysayers continue to doubt us, our capabilities and our potential.
👏Yet, we have carved our own identity.
👏We have progressed and are breaking barriers.
👏We are finding our rightful place and are standing tall.
👏We are breaking glass ceilings and excel in what we do.
👏We are making gigantic strides in our life and discovering pathbreaking grounds.
❓But how
😇So long as we do not break our indomitable spirit.
😇We continue to fuel our aspirations with the belief in ourselves: “I can and I will.”
😇We dare to be different, to redefine norms, to be trailblazers to inspire others.
😇We ignore the voices of the naysayers to rewrite the narrative for making our mark.
😇We work harder and hardest for that extra marks at school, college, home, and work, because we dare not fall behind.
😇We walk the extra mile to maintain and make the sacrifices to ensure
the delicate balance at home and office, because we dare not neglect or say no to the responsibilities we carry in our homes.
😇We keep going forward and refuse to fall behind even when the going becomes tough and impossible.
😇We try our best to achieve success, but we dare not expect the accolades or celebrate beyond in case we are considered overambitious and set tongues wagging.
😇We do as well in fact even better than our male colleagues, but competition is not what we can talk about.
The Xtra of everything takes its toll. It is at the cost of
✳️Our health and well-being.
✳️The time to pamper and love ourselves as we freely give to others.
✳️The freedom and space to invest in what we want to do and love to do
✅Time has come for us to press the pause button a
to reflect and give ourselves what we deserve.
✅Our worth is decided by ourselves alone and we know what we want to be.
✅No one else can decide it for us. Yes we are worth it and the sky and beyond is the limit for us.
✅Let the world not define what we are all about because we know we can and will do the best.
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”- Ayn Rand