Rebooting

For generations, women were just expected to pack their bags, put a few of their cherished belongings in their bridal luggage, and leave behind a whole lot of friendships, associations, hobbies and interests to be with their husbands. In their new world, they reboot. Make new relations, new friends, learn new hobbies, new languages and face a new set of challenges.
Then when she enters a job and is doing well, she becomes pregnant. As much as a thrill of a new member joining in, there is an untold fear that every career woman goes through. She will have to stay back at home tending to the baby as her other colleagues races past her. Another rebooting kicks in where her daily routines are amended according to the baby’s.
Motherhood can never be compared to petty issues. But once she wants to return back and kick back into her career life, that’s when the cold naked truth hits her. She’s lacking the knowledge of the two years of fast paced business life while she was breastfeeding, changing nappies and capturing smiles of her little one. Not to forget those daring women who went back to working soon after delivery coz they didn’t want to lose out… were never looked upon with respect from society coz they were those mothers who had no time for family anyways.

Its not her fault coz it always has been a woman’s sacrifice- very rarely appreciated though. After a while when people ask someone, what does she do now…. The answer is horrific to hear….” She’s at home now”. How many of you have heard the answer to be “ She’s a 24*7 mother “ Here she reboots again. She has to go back to being the fiery, do-it-attitude business woman, unwittingly suppress the sublime motherhood and lash it out at her work to climb up to the top again, at least to catch up to what she was missing out.

Are women the only ones to be in the reboot modus or let me word it differently….” Who sets an expiry for a woman’s dreams”?