I was 18 years old when I came across this line..in 12 standard Biology!
"Girls mature faster than Boys."
I couldnt help but think about my past, about all the times when SHE proved this sentence true.
We must have been 5-6 when SHE, like most of the girls, fancied wearing a saree or a dupatta around her shoulder at times. It was something she saw her mother and elder women somehow made her feel confident n wise.
She did act like teacher most of these times, but now that I'm thinking of maturity, maybe she was learning a lesson herself about the burden she'd have to carry on her shoulders throughout the life.
A Burden? The 'saree ka pallu' or 'the dupatta' that we are quite aware of, its weight may seem very negligible to us.
About 100 gms?
Well, for women it is 'weight of honour.'
No Questions, No Arguments.
If SHE breathes freely by wearing clothes not adorned bt these suffocating symbols 'symbols of culture' wrapped around her neck, then she has no modesty.
It is kind of funny.
They gave it a name of fashion. And she spent hours selecting colours and patterns of very same leash that would restrain her freedom tomorrow.
Its a waste of time to bring up a thing so irrevelant in people's eyes.
In her father's eyes, that she let it go.
Clearly they never knew how suffocating honour couls be!
In a scenario
Where I would have given up a long time ago, I now realize how SHE went through all of that for almost 18 years without a single tear in her eyes.
SHE matured faster than the society.
You see, even when she left this world for a better place, she kept her modesty.
She hung above the ground with those same 100 grams of honour still tied around the neck!
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