The story begins with a girl who just took birth in a small town of northern India and the challenges started right away from her birth. Starting from the acceptance of a girl child in joint northern family with no desire of a boy child next is a surreal circumstance. Thereafter, expecting an equal treatment, liberty and freedom to a girl and boy is close to impossible. As people say, girls mature faster than boys is conclusive enough to understand that observing indifferent behavior throughout her life can shape a girl's mind very different from a boy. Mostly ignoring this fact raises the baseline of the incidents for a girl being vocal about things.
Considering these conditions implemented by default, growing up a girl needs the love and affection from both the parents in order to understand the fulfillment of mother and father figure. The lack of any of the counterpart can create a gap in the child's mind in a different way. A girl child ignored by her elder ones loses her confidence to speak up and share what she feels. With all this family burden, a school can be a heavenly place for a girl to learn from teachers, her friends etc.
All the hurdles can commonly seen and observed in a normal household. But, my childhood was significantly different from what i described here. I was the girl loved by my parents, teachers, siblings who only knew to compete with the boys of the school in study or otherwise. A girl always appreciated by teachers for her melodious voice and humble nature, elected as a minister in 4th class. Despite of all this, there was an inherent fear from the leadership, a doubt that leadership isn't something i think i am good at. Now, if i think back i know that this was something i could never improved or this ability comes inherently, cant be developed but can be imposed. Always participating in competitions and winning them could not bring that leadership quality or the immense confidence to let go of the inhibition of thoughts i had. Co-education till fifth, confident enough to fight a boy, put my point forward, not underestimating myself from any boy and then transferred to the girls only school and what happens there i will continue in next blog.....
