
I wonder whether you have seen a movie called " Motherhood" - Uma Thurman playing a harried mother and housewife who has given up her career to look after her children. In her words life had become a series of mindless tasks - which "fill" her day but offer her no ful"fill"ment. It took an emotional upheaval and some soul searching for her to realize that the problem was not the world but herself and the looking glass with which she looked at the world . Through this colored glass she was the victim and all others the problem.
However as she realised in the movie and all of us need to realize that being a mother and wife is as fulfilling as we want it to be. We can worry that our careers have taken a back seat and we are no more intellectually stimulated - but pause and think again.
It is as fulfilling to watch a child grow and watch her smile widen at the rainbow as it is to make that next rung in the endless strife for success.
Let us enjoy and stretch today .
For we can be sure of one thing- today will be tomorrow very soon- So enjoy the gift that is today - that is why it is called the "present"
Happy Women's Day
Pramila
Thought provoking. Happy Women's Day to you too!
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