Small Things

There are a lot of things we don't like to think about, things that bother us a lot but we cannot do anything to change it. I know people will say, there's nothing that can't be changed, it takes will power, but how long have we been trying to empower women and yet achieved so little. We may now have women in high influential position, but even in that position do they get as much respect and co-operation from colleagues like her counterpart? To which you may argue, respect is earned, but it is obvious that a woman needs to prove herself a lot more comparatively and still does not gain as much support and respect. So now, is it her fault? Or are we still not able to change the stereotypical mentality of people (men and women). It's so saddening to hear politicians and police making gender biased comments against women publicly, and its depressing to know that public doesn't react to it and throw them off power... Which makes me think, is our gender so small and

I remember a moment in high school. It was late in the year, with final exams drawing near. I was in class 12 and it was time to say bye to school and friends and hi to college. But between it lay the exams, the most exciting and dreadful of all exams (for me). * I am a back bencher, and you know what kind of students stay in the back benches, normally those who are least interested in studies. But I always found in them good companionship, exciting stories and never a book worm.  With them you got to see a different side of life, a life where you were not worried sick about class tests and exams and anything relevant to the books. I was one of the class toppers, but I envied those people, not because they didn't worry about exams and tests like I did, but because their life wasn't dependent on those pieces of paper like mine was.  Independent of what their result would be like in 12’s final, they would still be able to make a life for themselves, sustain themselves, do