I always thought that it’s a pretty useless and stupid thing to say that a girl becomes a woman only when she becomes a mother. A woman has to take care of home and hearth. The modern woman also wants to have a career, so she should be able to juggle home hearth family (including extended) and career. No compromises. Some allowances are definitely given. But overall, she has to juggle quite a bit. Even if she is the sole breadwinner.
Why should motherhood be an added burden? The nausea, the cravings, the increasing bulk, trips to the loo, the labour pains, then the mass of screaming bundle that comes out from your body, nearly ripping the female body apart. Sigh! Why go through all that kind of pain? What’s the point of it all? India’s population is already hitting the roof. The world’s population is too much. Why do we need to give birth to more kids? More mouths to feed.
Live and let die.
To what end?
The joy of caring for someone who depends totally on you. Someone whom you know from when they were completely helpless, completely dependent on you. Someone who looks up to you. Literally and figuratively. A little bag of joy, happiness, tears and poo – just waiting for you to cuddle up to it and re-live your own childhood. Refresh the innocence that we seem to have forgotten in our world of adults. Become children to get a fresh new perspective of this jaded cynical world we live in. Marvel at the innocence that is yet to be found. They inject a shot of pure, unadulterated joy into our cynical world.
Being a parent is such a unique job. You grow with your child. You learn about toys and baby products, and as they become a little older, you learn the new kiddie channels and cartoons that are available in the market. Then about schools, syllabuses, exams and latest trends and fashions. Childhood jealousies, joys and happiness.
Parents take up the role of mentor and friend. Parents are no longer the rulebook or the guideline index by which kids g row up. This generation of parents has begun to realize that kids need them not only as a guiding force, but also as a friend. At least most that I know, have J.
They end up doubling up as friends and parents. Encouraging their kids to talk, share and communicate with them as well as righting their wrongs and teaching them a better or maybe their way of looking at things.
When we become parents, its strange, we become kids and parents both at the same time. Guess kids are born just to bring the out the children in us.
