This Women’s Day: A Man has Something to Say
I am always curious about the heroic stories and great biographies. I heard the high tails of the courage of the men and what has achieved throughout history. I have read philosophies of the great kings and stoics, yet what has touched my heart the most, might be a poem of Emily Dickinson or a phrase from the diary of Annie Frank.
I always ask myself, so far, who has “really” inspired you the most? Like really in my conscious lifespan, with all the authenticity, without hurting a single feeling of mine. I may be unable to utter a single man I know. The last impression I had before I was about to die in 2014; it was “Mommy.” The two years of struggle of my life with pains was devastated, and another woman stood for me and called herself my sister. The great lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila, took her time and efforts to write to me from the jail. The woman fought with the system for 16 years without food and water. The world might have rejected her thousand a time but she never gave up. Out of all, she had nothing to gain but a heart to feel the pain of her people who betrayed her, every time.
When I stood up again and went to study at IE, Spain, I found three ladies who have changed my perspective of life. My landlady whom I call “Madre Espanol (Mother from Spain),” mother of the Spanish Mother (Whom I call the Great Grandmother), and a teacher who is not just like my mother but a guiding light. In a country which was so different from my land, and we couldn’t speak the language of each other (my landlady and her mother do not speak English), I found angels living among humans. They cared about me, they adored me and they become my family forever.
Professor Ana Rumschiksky, an excellent professor who stood up every time for me whenever I felt down. She always said to me, “My dear Sourav, you deserve much better.” Never to forget her kindness on my graduation day when she came to me to acknowledge her presence in the absence of my parents (as they couldn’t travel to Spain). What can be beautiful than this?
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Alexandra Zografau and Ana Krsmanovic, the girls who are out there to think about mental health, and make it for all. We’ve got plans!
I read about Greta Thunberg and Sanna Martin; they are no ordinary.
…..and my mother, who cares, who cares a lot. Who suffers, who suffers a lot. Even a small thing happens to me; it becomes a big deal to her. She loves me more than I could ever conceive. She conquers every hell for me that I want to achieve. She is the most beautiful human for me, and I can die a thousand times for her.
She says, “I should be married now,” and I say “Let that Wonderwoman choose me instead I could ever dare to choose her.” She sings and loves the poetry already, let me ever become her song. :)
Women are marvellous. We, men, cannot match them, but we can learn to respect them, to let them break every chain and fly beyond every limit.
Happy Women’s Day 2020
