Beyond International Women's Day: Celebrating Women Every Day

Before you start battering me down avert your attention to the fact that why do we need to specify a 24 hour period each year to signify the importance of women in our lives. 

We've all been birthed by one, all of us look upto a mom, a sister, or even a colleague who's achieved better than us. There's always a woman in our life who makes us want to be a better man.

So why the need for a day dedicated to women, because we need awareness, as simple as that sounds it's the need of the hour to make people realise what value women hold in our lives. 

There's a plethora of stories that portray women conquering great odds to achieve something in life, I'm not gonna tell any though, because the word woman in itself says something. 

I think the reason women have been suppressed since the origin of human race is because we knew they were a little better than us in some way, that extra pair of chromosome didn't just give them the edge.

It gave them ability to create life, to nourish another human being and show compassion like no other in the world, think about it, can someone else love or care or understand you more than your mom does?

Nobody can be as selfless as they are, as caring , as relentless in their belief towards another human being. 

They sacrifice their whole lives making something beautiful and all they get is one day of acknowledgement a year, don't you think that's a little less compared to what they provide? 

I think it's nothing compared to what women contibute every single day selflessly.

As moms they hold the house above all a sanctuary for the family, as sisters they play a friend and enemy as well as a guide and critic when you need them, as wives they have their duties doubled, do i need to go on?

And what does all of this effort get them? 

Lechering eyes when they walk out on roads.

Criticism for every single thing they do, taught to behave like a prim and proper lady, cause men are dogs you need to watch where you're going, it's your fault to wear short clothes in summer cause you're not a human being are you? 

Cover yourself up because it may convey a wrong signal, don't go out at night it's not safe, don't you know he's a man they're aggressive by nature.

YOU need to accept the fact that even when they hit you it's not their fault but yours to have provoked them, and even when they accept all these restrictions and try and make something of themselves they're considered a burden on the family cause it'll cost to marry them away.

They're judged to have less intelligence than men, so they must learn to cook rather than pursue a career, learn to please a man so they can have a happy family and life, stopped from even going to schools cause what's the point when they're to marry and settle as a housewife, the list doesn't just end here.

They're stalked, harrassed, molested even or well, you know what our country is famous for.

Isn't it our responsibility to make them feel safe every single day? 

Can't we as men be a little more understanding and humble to the problems women face everyday? 

Is it really necessary to prove our dominance everyday? 

Is it too hard to accept the mistakes we've made all the years prior to now? 

Or this constant need to establish superiority without any accomplishment is bigger than you sanity? 

As far as my thoughts are concerned all of us know what we lack in ourselves, where we are at fault, the only problem is we ignore ours and start finding them in others to make us feel better, a bigger man you can say.

It's this constant need for approval that dooms us as a race, it's about time we stop compensating for our faults by trying to find them in others, and start finding ways to correct ourselves first.

So at the end of it all my question is why just one day? 

We should be thankful we have women in our lives year round and they withstand all our foolishness and stupid illogical debate about why women are privileged over men in public transports, offices, schools and queues. 

We should be thankful to our moms who support us every single day without a shred of doubt, our sisters for believing in us when we need them to, our friends when we're most lonely, and our girlfriends and wives for the endless understanding and belief.

I know most of you would come up with the argument what about men? 

To you and most other people like you it must have seemed like I have constantly (in this post at least) lead women up this pedestal like they're better human beings or we need to suck up to them for something. 

First of all in my opinion they are, and second, being a man myself i can pretty confidently vouch for all the things we didn't have to withstand being a man and recognise the privilege i was bestowed upon my birth by nature.

This is not a rant and no offence, but there are both women and men who have responsibilities and those who give equally bad name to both the genders but if we were to put a few examples to scale and judge a whole gender that wouldn't be fair would it? 

I'll be sure to cover the men's issues soon enough to quench your thirst for closure sometime in the future, as for now I'd like to leave you with a thought experiment on this one.

"Don't strive to be a great man or woman, strive to be a great human being."