Be courageous, support each other, be independent, be rationale, be kind, be fierce, respect everyone, understand your rights and duties. However, don’t be afraid to fail, to fall down, to be irrational at times, to be angry, to be misunderstood, to be apologetic, to be unapologetic, to be emotionally, physically, and mentally dependent. Don’t get scared to face the stereotypes but face it with dignity and fight it. It’s okay to be a mess and it’s okay to try to seek perfection if that’s what you want. Don’t worry if the world tries to capture you in their narrow mindset because you are also a part of the world. Understand others if you want them to understand you. Once you know that you cannot really change how others behave but you can only control how you react to it. Everything seems so easy.
Women’s day as it sounds is for all the women of the world. Try to uplift everyone together or one at a time. Help underprivileged ones to grow and get opportunities. There are many women and girls who don’t even know that they have the rights. Let’s not fight over why or should you have seats reserved on a bus or why or should you get maternity leave (if you do). Let’s first fight over our rights to get in that bus, right to equal pay, equal opportunities, but first our right to live because there are many girls killed before birth just because they are going to be born as a girl. Let’s fight over the safety of a girl child in her house, school, playground, buses, roads, and jobs. Let’s talk about her rights to go to school, to make her own decisions, to get married or to stay single, to get her say in family investments, her rights to have or not have a baby. And above all, her rights to live. We are all together in this fight against all the stereotypes and inequalities. We need all men and women to stand for each other otherwise it’s impossible to be empowered.
Nevertheless, women’s day is also a celebration of what we have achieved so far. On this day, I would like to wish a happy women’s day to to a girl in ‘Kalikot’ who is becoming aware of her basic rights, to a woman in ‘Siraha’ who now knows that divorce is an option to suffering violence for dowry, to a woman in ‘Jumla’ who is learning that household chores are both gender’s responsibility and to every woman who is taking risks, appreciating healthy competition among themselves, applauding for other women, and smashing the internalized patriarchy. More than that, happy International Women’s Day (IWD) to every man who is also fighting to make all this happen. It is very important to understand that equality is equally empowering and healthy for all genders.
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