To The Mystery

There is a blogger friend who wants to have a baby. A baby of her own. She is not married, no she doesn’t even have a boyfriend. Infact she doesn’t like boys, she prefers girls.

There is another friend, she was married for five years before she was able to conceive after many, many visits to doctors. In her own words ‘she hungered for a child’.

Someone, whom I have come to know well, wants a family, wants to get married and have a place of her own. She is a successful professional, has a retinue of friends and yet she yearns for a family. After years of resistance she is even willing to settle down with someone her parents choose.

Another friend told me categorically that she won’t give birth in India and she would ensure her daughter would grow up in a safer society without discrimination. She was adamant she would have a girl and that was when we were in college and she didn’t even have a boyfriend.

Me, I had the opportunity a long time back to have children, that time I passed the chance. Now I would love to have one and know that I must not because it will further complicate my already complicated life.

Where does all this lead?

It leads to the mysterious yearning in a woman to have a child.

And once she has one, the way she learns to take care and provide safety to her child at times even risking her own.

Well, this post is a salute to that mystery inside a woman.

HAPPY MOTHER’s DAY!!!!!!!!