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Hi Guys,
Yesterday while I was writing take five I was little emotional and could not write everything I wanted to share. Although I have already discussed this with few people, I just wanted to write this today for everyone.
Was it wrong for a father to sacrifice his own daughter for the sake of his sons? Yes, it is wrong irrespective of age and time. Any kind discrimination is wrong. Moreover, several daughters were sacrificed, not just one.
Can we blame on person/king for this? No. It is a collective responsibility of the society to make sure there is no discrimination against anyone, based on gender, race, color, status, class, caste, religion and so on. Unless the entire society is educated and made aware, we really cannot make one person a villian.
Even today there is discrimination all around the world and it is failure of the entire society.
Now that this is cleared, here is today's take five.
1) A Father's regret: A father regrets letting go of his daughter. His guilt is eating him up from the inside and he is unable to come out of it and make amends with everyone involved. He also probably regrets for not raising above society's dictates and customs.
2) Unhappy Souls: There are few people in this world who are unhappy. They are dissatisfied with whatever they have been dealt with, generally feel entitled and curse the society and life for not giving them everything they think they deserve. They will latch on to one person, claiming to love them, try to control and lead that person's life. This is one way of them asserting their need to control everything. Did I make any sense?
3) An outsider's view: Sometimes it takes an outsider or a third person to see the problem clearly and come up with solutions. It could be a son who would bridge the gap between a husband and wife, sometimes it could be a parent who would bring two siblings together and so on.
4) Bridge between husband and wife: Often ego and non-communication come in between the relationships. If only both of them could talk and express their anger, guilt, sadness and whatever that they are feeling! A proper communication is the key.
5) Drama: Life without seeing kids enact some elaborate drama or the other would be boring indeed. They bring spice to our life, make us angry and happy at the same time! We would not know how to react, whether to laugh at their intelligence or scold them for it!
Couple of incidents from my own life. I was four and half years old when my sister was born. I loved the kid even while she was in mum's tummy. Some family friends took me to see my new sister at the hospital and every one was distributing chocolates. I really felt sad that my sister would not be able to eat them. I promptly slipped a chocolate wrapper next to her nose. My mum asked what was I doing and I explained my logic to her. We all were eating chocolates, I just wanted her to at least smell it. I probably learnt all about ants that day.
This happened when my sister was maybe around 3 years or slightly less than that. My mum was angry with her for something. So, kiddo comes to me and asks 'Akka, you pretend to scold me loudly and I will pretend to cry. Then mum will not be angry with me and she will console me" I wanted to see what would happen and the idea really worked. I later explained it to my mum and we had a good laugh about it.
Do share your stories too.
Love
Kshithi
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