A life to live...?

Ignorance is bliss, though short lived. As I bask in the bliss of my ignorance, I can’t help but notice the heart wrenching stories of crimes committed against the little girl child all around. An uneasy silence within, I shrug, it makes my guts twist and turn, as I try to grasp how far has the human gone.. As disgraceful as it might sound, India reports millions of female infanticides every year. Love for the son has gone way too far has transformed sheer hatred for the girl. But for what crime?

Society and prejudice go hand in hand. In a society which was built with a foundation that a boy bears the legacy of the family, while a girl is no more than a liability; it is not surprising to see where things are headed. A thought process inflicted with such prejudice and stigma continues to be rampant no matter how progressive the society becomes.

An oppression that began eons ago with the debate of which gender is superior, seems to be thriving even in this age after having survived countless generations, having passed on as a heritage. Why get into a debate which is a paradox to the core? Either couldn't have made it without the other. So who or what determines who has an upper hand?

A girl child could be as good as a boy, only if you gave her a chance to survive. 

Something like happiness..

It happened out of the blue. It was a promotion that was long due I was told by my skip level manager.  I had been expecting it for over a year now. But as luck would have it, it didn't until now. I did well, I knew. Three awards. A missed opportunity of being in my dream company. A missed promotion. A roller coaster ride, it's been for the last year and a half. And now, finally it was happening. Unlike what I had imagined, I wasn't neither happy nor excited. It was just a sense of relief... While I wondered at my lack of happiness, I felt a sense of satisfaction for the acknowledgement I received for my efforts. But that was it. I realized that getting something doesn't make us as happy, as not getting the same thing saddens us. While we waste countless moments fretting over things that didn't happen or have the remotest chance of happening, we miss countless moments when we could have been happier not worrying about them in the first place.

Do we realize that things that actually make us happy are quite different from what we have or want to achieve, what makes us happy and what simply adds to our satisfaction? I.Wish - isn't that what drives all of us? All of us have a wishlist - big or small, grand or humble - all of us do. We sacrifice, we toil, we compromise - just to see that wish coming true. But at the end, does it always taste as sweet as we imagined it to be? That's something we should sit down and ponder.

Sit back and prioritize!