The One Thing Every Girl Needs To Hear

Dear amazingly fabulous young lady,

Yes, I’m talking to you. You are amazing, beautiful, funny, intelligent, and perfect. Yes, you read that right. I just referred to you as perfect.

Now, I bet you’re wondering how I know this when you don’t know this about yourself. I mean it’s not like I know you in person or anything. The simple, basic truth boils down to this fact that even I am a girl, a confident woman in the making, and therefore, I can relate to the everyday struggles of yours. Another truth what I’d like to tell you is that there has never been another girl, another woman like you nor will there ever be one with the charming, humorous, and elegant personality such as yours. Because, you are unique.

Dear Lady, You Are An Original.

You have your passions and strong opinions that are important. You have a voice that creates an impact, that can change the lives of those around you, irrespective of what gender they belong to. And that smile of yours, oh, It can brighten up any soul’s day like the warm rays of the sun! If you ever find yourself among people who talk about you otherwise, don’t listen to them. Prove each of those humans wrong by doing nothing extraordinary, but just by being your best self.

In our society, there’s this stigma that is attached to being a woman, right? Our ears are accustomed to words like, “don’t act like a girl” or “look at that woman trying to be bossy” or “Oh, look she’s such an attention seeker” just to one-up oneself while describing or portraying another woman as a weak or funny persona. And we all know that internal misogyny and demanding of other women is morally wrong. I mean, just look at Kiran Bedi, she was the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) and she remained in the service for nearly 35 years, serving the nation. There’s Kiran Mazumdar Shaw who’s a successful entrepreneur, there’s Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra influencing the world globally, and so the list can go on. So, next time someone says women are dependent on others; tell them about Arunima Sinha, she is the world’s first female Amputee (an Indian) mountain climber who successfully scaled the god of all mountains, the Mt. Everest. Time and again, women all over the world have proved and are proving it still that we aren’t a gender that needs the world’s pity. All the successful women proudly went “against the norm” that’s being followed in every society, since time immemorial.

I know dearies, the people around us demean us most of the times but open your eyes and look for those humans who have been striving to make sure that we get the glory that we deserve. Not everyone around us wants to put us down. Let’s make peace with the fact that no one is going to save us. We need to be our own saviors. This is something that my dad taught me since my school days. He told me that I’ll encounter countless moments in life where I’ll feel utterly hopeless. He also told me that those hopeless moments pass, and it’s only the lessons that we get to cherish. He said learn to see the beauty in everything and everyone around you.

Dear Lady, Learn To Love Your Body

Learn it yourself first and then teach other women around you to do the same. If you have a daughter, right from her infancy, ingrain this message in her that she is beautiful the way she is. It will help her learn about self-worth. And self-worth can be tough to teach in the later stages of life, so make sure you start to teach her about it right from the beginning, when she is a beautiful bud in a garden of flowers. My mother emphasized it a lot during my formative years. She told me that I need to love my body and be grateful for it. A woman’s body goes through a lot of changes during various stages of life, learn to love your body through all these stages.

Dear Lady, Tell Yourself “I Love You”

We women, all we want in life is love, care, and attention. And it’s always an overwhelming feeling to know that you are loved for what you are. But, do you love yourself? It was something that my teacher taught me during my post-graduation days. She taught me that I need to learn to love myself first. Only then will others around me do the same. Since then, every morning after I wake up, I say a small prayer to God thanking him for everything that I’ve been blessed with. And then I go face the mirror in my bedroom and say I love you to myself. It makes me smile instantly.

Never think, even if it’s for just one tiny moment, that you aren’t worth it at all. You deserve every bit of the highs and lows in your life. And girl, you are beautiful. And I agree that sometimes all you want is to hear it from someone else. So, here I am telling you this,

“You go, girl! Conquer the world you wanted to be a part of. Fulfill even the smallest of your dreams. Make yourself proud before others. Love yourself and just be you, unapologetically.”

Love,

Your loving sister who comes from another mister.

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