“Have a baby — then you can live your life.”
“Once you’re a mother, you’ve earned your freedom.”
The claps echo for the mother of a 17-year-old - The skin with a storm !
The “model woman” — praised for having completed the checklist designed by society.
It is a reward for compliance.
What about the ones who looked society in the eye and said: “I choose myself.”
“Or I may bear the child of my own self at the age of 50— Do you have a problem ?
If that child never comes, I will still live fully.”
Do you have a problem ?
What about the woman who dreamt of Hiroshima in class 5 —
not because she wanted to escape motherhood, but because she wanted to discover herself first and not willing to bear a child of a man who is not at all a match to her self ?
She bled for her art.
She cried for her truth.
She danced without asking.
Iam the Rani Mehra from the Movie Queen !
Less complete?
Or just too free for your comfort?
Here I am. Whole. Feminine. Fierce. Free.
And I didn’t earn it through obedience — I claimed it through truth.
And that’s the kind of woman I want every girl to know she can be.
To the men who think they are the center of our clocks :
Let me say this with love — and with fire:
I can bear a child at 50.
I might choose to.
Or I might not.
But when I do — if I do — it will be on my time, with my truth, and with someone who meets me as an equal, not as a deadline.
Because I don’t.
And I will not adjust it to make you comfortable.
"Even if all the boatmen abandon me,
I shall become my own oar,
Through the fiercest storms,
I will chart my own course to the shore."
DEI Enthu - Gar maajhi saare saath mein gair ho bhi jaayein, To khud hi to patwaar Ban Paar honge hum.
Khud hi to hain hum - Kinaare !
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