A letter to women!

     Women! What a wonderful creation you are! All the poetry of the world would not suffice to behold or describe the charm of you. Without you, how barren the world would seem! You bring the color to the otherwise black and white world.

     Just because you were physically weak, how men persecuted you all over the ages! You were seen as a mere object which would satisfy carnal appetite. Shame on the men of the world who did this to you! The idea of men being superior to you was obviously created by the men. Except in physical strength you are no way less than any men. In fact in many others, you are far superior. 

     But thanks to changed global scenario that the situation has began to turn around. You are seen as capable as any other men in the world. But what I feel is that you also fell as a victim to the disease called imitation. Instead of growing in a unique path, you always wanted to tread the path of men. 

     Whenever you imitate any person, you obviously see the person as superior to you and you set the standard accordingly. The person you imitate becomes your yardstick of measurement. You may love or hate the person you imitate but somewhere in the mind, you hold the person higher than yourself. Oppression for many millennia has made a rebel out of a few of you. But when a rebel acts, it is actually a reaction to the existing pattern. So, the rebel can’t think of independent pattern. He/she just modifies the existing pattern.

     You started imitating men from clothing to lifestyle to everything. Though on the outside you claim to be no way inferior, in your psyche you are yet to come out of that. All the feminists who clamor for the equal rights are still keeping men as the reference point. With this kind of thinking we are working well to create a chaotic world where gentleness, love, care are costly commodities. Love, compassion are natural traits of you but have been jeopardized in this mindless imitation. 

     Women of the world! Please heed to these and create your own paths, tread on them fearlessly and thus create a beautiful world in which there is no prejudice based on the gender and both the genders are in harmony with one another.