A STONE UPTURNED

THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO CHOICES IN LIFE ,EITHER FACE THE CONDITIONS AS IT IS OR TO TAKE THE RESPONSBILITIES  TO CHANGE THEM

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so here i am going to discuss with u a stone upturned,an incomplete dream, a journey yet to be completed

It happened one fine day when i was in my dad's clinic attending his patients as he was out of town and a woman"Saraswati" came with a 1 year old baby burning with fever

i took the temp n it showed 103 i scolded that lady 4 not bringing her child earlier n she

started crying ,saying she didn't had money for fees n pills{to which i really didn't pay much heed b'coz its a common site in dad's clinic} 

then she told me her story she was married to a man 3 yrs back with a dowry of 10000 rs n the man ran away with the money leaving her pregnant,she came back to her home did some servant's job in nearby houses n his family didn't care 'bout her daughter whether she was ill or not 'coz she was a "girl"

she went away ,i didn't charge her but that wud not solve her problem ,i gave it a thought a whole night that what can be done with these illiterate,cheated,downtrodden women

n the other day i got a call from one of my aunty that she needed an aaya cum housemaid who can take care of the twin babies that her daughter in law has recently delivered n if i knew someone

there i was god had showed me the way i recommended saraswati's name n she was kept with a good pay'a place to live

after a few days she came with her sister to"didiji who is like god to them" this girl was 10th pass{i thanked god} n wanted to be self dependent like her sister i recommended her to one of my frnd for receptionist's job{n i sincerely thank Dr Sudhir for employing her} 

so guys from there came the idea of"NAARI-AN ORGANISATION FOR MAKING WOMEN SELF DEPENDENT"

i decided to make these women self depndent

but as i said earlier "NAARI" was not an easy task'an organisation that too involving women,many legal formalities n when i became totaly irritated one of my really close frnd adviced me to delay the idea n said"ek aurat ki madad ke liye pehle khud aurat banna padta hai"

n he was correct i was very young and all alone to carry it forward so i dropped this idea for a time being

n one sun morning when i was having cofee a group of women came to my house {guided by ever so dear S araswati of course} n everybody with a common story-cheated,exploited,dowry victims,leftovers

recommended 9 of these women to residential based maid jobs[by my mumma's help of course,thank you mumma n i love you}

so they are earning ,are self dependent n all 11 of them are working hard to live a life of respect

i may not have been successful in giving them an organization but when one fine day "Saraswati"came to my home with a box of sweets 'coz she has admitted her daughter to a nearby school.she fell on my feet n said"Aapne mujhe aur meri beti ko izzat ki roti di hai didiji bhagwan aapko khub barkat de"

i realized i had done nothing i just showed them a way -way to self respect n thereafter all 11 of them carried this tough journey themselves

n hey "naari"wud be there one day working in the field of women empowerment thats a promise i make it to myself n too everybody reading this

i would like to quote Robert frost here

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"TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A YELLOW MOOD
N SORRY I CUD NOT TAKE BOTH
BEING A TRAVELER I STOOD BY
N FINALLY TOOK THE OTHER,NOT SO FAIR
AND PERHAPS HAVING A BETTER CLAIM
'COZ IT WAS GREASY N FULL OF WEAR
YET DOUBTING TO WHERE IT LEADS
I TOOK THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED BY
N YES THAT'S MADE ALL THE DIFFERRENCE"