Life, in it's daily momentum, often becomes a series of mechanical actions or 'operational work' that typically occupies the day. This is not a gender specific issue but more a age related outcome. As a child, we don't care about anything. We are oblivious of activities around and just focus on what we want. As we grow up, we are more aware, and tend to take responsibility. Maybe convention associates taking up responsibilities with growing up, and I guess that's how the change subconsciously happens. The only gender based change (not applicable to 100% cases but definitely a wide majority) is that a lot of the operational work like groceries, laundry, keeping the house clean, watering the plants etc land in the hands of the female folk, and the more 'serious' things like providing financial stability etc get mapped to men. I am yet to figure out the reason for this de-facto mapping. I am not sure if these responsibilities landed with the respective g...
All of insecurity is nothing more than a half-baked doubt.
ReplyDeleteDoubt thrives on/in silence. All that needs to be done is breaking it.
@your comment on 'stolen' -
That is the paradoxical beauty of time, that for every beautiful, brand new moment that dissolves into your presence, there are many more beautiful ones being stolen in your absence.
Maybe it is our passivity, or a testament to its undeniably seductive beauty, that we silently endure this furtive theft of memory, this one dimensionality of time.
Sometimes saying things too loudly is as bad as staying mum on an issue...
ReplyDeleteI guess the debate of doubt & insecurity is like the chicken & the egg problem...
'Sometimes'. That's the key. The challenge lies in identifying the 'times' that constitute those 'sometimes'.
ReplyDelete@ dheeraj: very true, but in case of being unable to identify the situation.. I'd rather give it the benifit of doubt ;)
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