What is a woman made of?

I am a WOMAN
This year I celebrated International Women’s day in a different way. I went to Indira Gandhi School of kids from Sri Lanka refugee camps. Their parents have sent them to school which offered free education. Parents probably thought that atleast their kids would be away from refugee camps and school whatever it may be would be better than those camps for sure…

Well we few women from my office decided to spend our day there. We had planned for sports competetions,art competitons and talent show etc for them. We had taken sports equipments,books chcocolates prizes etc for them. I was just looking forward to this day trying to explore a new experience... When I went there I saw the kids stood up to wish me good morning. I saw they were sitting in order of their classes.
I looked at them , their eyes looked so inquisitive,so much of excitement. We asked them do u know why we are here? They said yes to celebrate women’s day.. I wondered what do they know of women’s day. Anyways we talked to them just divided them into groups and were taking them to playground. I along with couple of my friends were managing the girls while few others managed the boys. Yes though it is a co-ed school the kids don’t mingle.. I noticed that. Anyways when I took the girls to playground so many of them just gathered around me and held my hands saying we want to play kho-kho,kabaddi,musical chairs and many more. Some girls just looked at me and when I caressed them they had such a big smile. I asked them to name their groups and they came up with names like indira Gandhi,sania mirza,priyanka Gandhi,sarojini naidu… while the boys teams named themselves as lions,dragons, tigers etc. Did u see any difference?

Well lets move on. They wanted to play Kho-Kho. But we did not have chalks or anything to make the grid required. The girls said. No problem Akka and just two girls started walking in a line. Just 2 minutes and they made such a wonderful grid with their legs. Some elder ones wanted to play Throw ball and we were wondering to make the lines to draw the court boundary. One girl just came with a jug of water and started pouring on the mud and made such a neat boundary. When they wanted to play musical chairs without music. Some of them volunteered to sing as per my instruction while the rest played.

I was just amazed how simply they were solving their problems. All because they were so eager to play. Simple playing games brought so much of smile in their faces. While I was checking what the boys played I figured out most of them played running race,frog race,three legged race etc. Again did u see the difference? Boys wanted to compete and run everytime while the girls wanted to be in teams and win or loose as a team. They enjoyed the essence of playing while the boys just wanted to win a race.
Well I was amazed by so many simple things those kids demonstrated. We spent the whole day playing with them,making them draw,letting them eat good food. The talent show they demonstrated was simply wonderful. With so limited facilities they put in such a wonderful group dance, plays. Fancy dress show.. Ohh it was just mesmerizing.

I came back with so much happiness. I enjoyed my day so much. Later that day I wanted to talk to one of my most wonderful friends. I was so content and happy with the day’s activities when some incident happened and I was reminded of the mundane tensions, which upset me….
While I was just pondering over the day’s happenings, I realized how beautiful women’s characteristics are….how differently she handles her emotions and how different she behaves in each such circumstances than men do….

I had seen so many phases in my life, so many different experiences in my life the time I started leading an independent life. There had been so many ups and downs and so many times I handled them all alone ,though I was not old enough for them. I faced them as a novice, struggled through things and realized I came out a stronger person. I was a small soft girl then and I turned into a girl with so many strong facets today. I cried,laughed,bitched,played,lied,helped but never ran away. I was bitten so many times but I just took it all along.
I realized ohh how did I get all this courage all this strength when I was such a soft such a weak person when I started seeing the world independently. I realized yes I got this strength because I am a woman.

One of friends once told me Woman is like an ocean who can take in so many things yet she is ready to accomodate so much more. I thought over it. Hmm nice line but is this really true? Just think over it.
How many times u have seen a woman being hit by her own loved ones, by the people whom she loved so much. Yet she forgives them all. Not just because she wants to be big by forgiving but for the simple reason that she loved them. She just gave more importance to love she had for those people than the wrong behavior of them towards her.

Who is stronger a girl or a boy? I have seen friends (boys) who tend to run away from a critical crisis situations where I as a girl so many times just faced those crisis. I was blown up by the wind so many times I came back again and stood in front of that,everytime thinking may be that was the end. But no, I forgot there is no end for it. The more u take it the more it comes to you. So many times I being a girl just listened to people around me and gave in to their wishes rather than my own, Why? because I loved them. But hold on - they took that as my weakness. :-(
Well let me tell u I am a girl I am a woman I am soft, I am tender, I listen, I love but I am not weak. Many times I gave control of my life to people just with a trust in them thinking they would not hurt me since i loved them. But I was proven wrong so many times.

Well not a problem guys I told u I am a woman. I gave u the control but I can take my steering in my own hands too. Now I become the driver of my life. Believe me I might make mistakes, I might injure myself but I would come out being the best driver. I would not become weak and stop here. Don’t take me for granted. If I can love others I do love myself too.
I do forgive also. I forgive all my loved ones who have hurt me at times. If they ever come to me I would greet them with same smile, same tenderness, same love. Because, I am a woman……….

Whoaa guys lots of gyaan and womanhood lecture… I just tried to pen down my feelings. U have the right to bicker at me again ohh one more woman protagonist came in. But if u just look back at things on your own try to analyse what is more important.
"Doing things right in life or doing things as per other’s suggestions just because those others are your own".
Think again.