The Nightmare of Living and Breathing as a Girl
ANONYMOUS
It was at 9 pm. I know I am amongst the
characterless women of the country who have to stay out even after sunset for
their ambitions. I can't help. So I was walking in the lane, and suddenly, I
could clearly hear some footsteps coming near me. I gasped and began walking
faster. But before I could go ahead, I felt some hands abruptly touching my
body. I could sense that touch. That non-consensual touch. The touch that made
me realize in microseconds how helpless I was. The touch had no essence of
humanity. The touch ruined my whole soul. The touch made me accept how weak I
am. That touch was not of a man because the men I have in my life support me,
encourage me to grow and learn new things. That touch could never be of a man.
It wasn't human. Well! Then and there, I had given up, lost all hopes to save
myself. Everything flashed in front of my eyes and they opened suddenly. Sheer
terror coursed my body like electricity. "Hush it was a nightmare" I
sighed, looking around, now with a sense of relief. But then I wondered how far
I am really from the nightmare, anyway.
This nightmare, yes indeed, is the fear of every
woman in our society. The fear is the biggest hurdle in our road to success.
The fear which makes us feel that the label of becoming characters, is just
midair, lurking. The fear never leaves us and squeezes every drop of liveliness
from our souls. The fear stops us from staying out after sunset. The fear which
makes a woman a burden on her family to an extent, that it has broken all of
us. So my dear society, the only way to stop rape is to teach them to stop
doing it. And, I must say, it though feels so bad to break your myths but then
here is this, you should listen to, time and again- none of our clothes, our
education, our style, our makeup or even our existence gives rise to
molestation.
It is you, dear society, instead.
Editor’s Note: Hello
society! Yes, it’s for you. Yes it is you who rape us girls with your mindset every
day and not only physically. A girl is raped when you call her a slut. She is
raped when you call her characterless. She is raped when you mentally abuse
her. She is raped with your mindset every day, at home, at school, at work
place, at public places and what not. So, change that mindset of yours.
If you also have something to write about or speak about, do
it now. We encourage our audience to be the ‘voice of change’.
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