New mommies, girl pals and my mommy generation and beyond! A
shout out to you all! A big round of applause for creating each other and
defining each other and getting us girls here, where we are, with girls and boys of our own too!! Ok this is
getting slightly convoluted…but am wayyyy too excited to stop here and pause!
Well no! it’s no Eureka moment for me! Well it is in a way! Gosh!! This is
getting so exciting and revealing at the same time I really need to get to the
point!
We women, we girls are way beyond amazing! Yes we are! No I
mean we are not just amazing because we think we are, but because our bodies
have been programmed to be amazing, we produce children, we procreate! Now in
this age of feminist undertones and alpha male overtones and what not idealistic
noise, as I prefer to call it, here is something so fundamental and so basic
that even I am guilty of having overlooked it completely!
When motherhood dawned upon me I first realized that
something is wrong, well when I had difficulty conceiving, I felt stupid,
vulnerable and helpless. I did not know whom to blame when all our tests came
out normal! It was a combination of so many pressures, the pressure to
outperform a habit I picked up since school days, the pressure to get what I
want, the ultra independent woman way, the pressure to answer/rebut the stupid
questions following X years of marriage and so many other aspects. Most of all
I felt completely whacked out of my whole life harmony till then! I had always
meticulously planned, worked hard and got what I wanted. And here I was,
thinking creating babies, well the beggar on the street gets them too, big deal
a complete low IQ thing…just happens…well was I in for a surprise? Big time!
Turns out that creating children and rearing them is the most
important and intelligent of all pursuits that we can ever have! We are
creating a new generation which shall stay on long after we have completed our
own pursuit of ego and achievement. As a Gen Y er I too never gave as much
thought to “children and all that stuff”, always thinking I can adopt big deal!
But it was never about giving birth vs adopting, it was way deeper than that.
It was about my own body, my own wellness and my own life! Sadly no education
in the world teaches children about this biggest and single most important
aspect of life! Procreation and wellness! Don’t get me wrong, mere sex
education is worthless here. We need more than that -empathy and understanding
of our bodies, bodily functions, their emotional, physical and physiological implications.
Something as fundamental as menstruation cycles, totally thought they just were
created to stop me from practicing basketball! Hell no!
They were telling me and my body a lot lot more…only I
realized it all well much later when the doctors told me about it all! And for
the doctor it was scant information scattered here and there, but when I
realized myself that PCOS, fibroids, type two diabetes, dysfunctional thyroid are definitely not
normal occurrences, why they are like sirens wailing out from your body telling
you to stop abusing it! Even irregular periods, moodiness, boredom, weak sexual
desire, excess or diminished appetite, plain forgetfulness are all indicators
to bigger deep set problems, we just need to fine tune into our bodies, understand
what is our body trying to tell us and act likewise. Today there is a lot of
information, it is empowering and we must as literate, techno-savy women
empower ourselves, inform ourselves train our minds to search for all answers.
No longer is health a bastion of doctors, no, it’s your body and you better
take care of it! Nature has set it out so beautifully and yet in such a complex
fashion, it humbles us, boggles our mind and then finally helps us get in touch
with our inner selves, our bodies, and eventually our own gut feel, instinct
and soul. This lovely TEDx talk opens up new possibilities in which we can view
ourselves and in the future help our daughters and sons view themselves and
their partners.
Being mother by giving birth or adoption is a choice under
varied circumstances, but being a woman is not a choice, it’s a reality and an
empowering one at it! It’s a perpetual journey towards fine tuning ourselves
towards that inner rhythm which is intrinsically humming a song of creation, of
existence and nurturing…be it creating children, masterpieces or business
empires, be it existing for family, for society or nations, be it nurturing
relationships, environment or spirituality.
Enjoy the journey of womanhood!
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