What's Your Bloody Problem?!

"Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions.. for safety on the streets... for child care, for social welfare...for rape crisis centers, women's refuges, reforms in the law." (If someone says) 'Oh, I'm not a feminist,' (I ask) 'Why? What's your problem?'"

- Dale Spender, author of For the Record: The Making & Meaning of Feminist Knowledge, 1985

That Volatile Thing Called Life

Do you have a choice? Really a choice, when you realize that your life has literally tumbled down. No you don’t. But only left with a choice to wonder why it took such a long time for the realization to seep in. Why is that you have been cheating yourself that life is good, when in reality the tumbling down of your life had happened long time back. Probably, at the time when you really discovered yourself. Your preferences. Your choices. Your desires. Your wishes. Your favorites. Your anger. Your love. Your passions. Life had tumbled down actually at those moments when you realized all these inane yet defining things of life. It takes quite a long time to understand that life is in tatters, almost!

Do you have a choice? No. you don’t. Except to move on and embrace those same things that make you fall apart. How ironical! You actually hold yourself together by those same things that try to break you down into pieces. That volatile life!