It's good to be a woman

Women make the world go round; at times in gentle circles like a Ferris wheel, where everybody gets to be on top of the world at least for some time, and at times like a wheel in a theme park in London, which is not meant for the fair-hearted and where everybody gets to be terrified a number of times.

With so much power tied up like a bag of herbs in the left pocket of her apron, and a magic wand of spoon in her hand, who wouldn’t want to be her; who wouldn’t want to be a WOMAN? No matter what color, shape or size, in today’s world, it is good to be a woman, and it is so because no son of the soil or daughter of the West can make an entry into this world without a woman. What good would the theory of relativity be if there was no Einstein, but then again, where did he come from? Even Adolph Hitler was once an egg, and the only person who had the gall of smacking him on his bottom, telling him to behave himself was a woman. And it only gets better. It is good to be a woman because she is a sister, a sister who almost always has a brother. Whether it’s a teaser, a harasser, a follower, or even an annoying husband, all a sister has to do is tap on her brother’s shoulder, look hapless and he will go all the way to the other side of the world to beat the man up till he sounds like a seven-year-old Chinese girl. All a woman has to do is call for help in squeaky voice.

And it only gets better. It is good to be a woman because she is a daughter, a daughter who always has a set of give-it-all-away parents. They raise you, nurture and pamper you, paint your room pink, protect you, and pay for all the million clothes that you wear. Things only get groovier as you grow up, for all you have to do is point, and they will get it for you. You study in your own time, there are no taking-care-of-family or earning pressures, you don’t have to learn how to drive, no responsibility, no blaming. It is like living in a doll house, only for real. And it only gets better, for after your parents are done looking after you, you get a brand new caretaker, who goes from emperor to pamperer for you in one day. All you have to do is say, ‘I do’, and you get to move to another doll house in a fancy decorated car with, what you call a husband.

Now let’s not get started on the blessings of not having to shave every morning, not having to change a tyre in the middle of the road, not having to pump the sewerage pipe at home every time the line gets choked, not having to wake up one morning with the bald patch in the middle of your head, and not having to earn enough to buy a Ferrari to get the love of your life. There is nothing like being able to cry, nothing like getting a whole new lease on life just by changing the color of your lipstick.

So, yes, it is incredible being a woman and more than half of us would agree. Because let’s face it, men may be the stronger sex, but not when there’s a beautiful woman in the room. It is us, women who add beauty to the world, and if we had not been here, the story of the world would have ended with Adam’s final breath.

Schazeen Bokhari

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