Fleeting Muses.

Wrote parts of this on Women’s Day when I was in a really determined and strong kind of a mood. The other parts of it are written in a serene manner, so this post itself is symbolic of the variations a woman can have, the moods, thoughts and qualities. The first thought which comes to my mind when I think about women equality in this world is that women are never given the respect they deserve. They weren’t given importance a 100 years back when the women of that era must have hoped for a better future, nor are they given the praise they deserve even now when girls and women all around hope for a better future for their daughters. I have always wondered why, oh why, are jokes made on women so much more than the opposite gender. Why is it that every male I know would be offended by a male-mocking joke whereas they expect us to laugh at those aimed at us. This fact I have always despised and I personally take a lot of pleasure in forwarding female-empowering one liners; the...

A friend of mine shared it and I found this more worthy than just being copied on a txt file. To be remembered. And to inspire that there ARE people who value this, think like this! "You should date a girl who reads. Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space beca use she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve. Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn. She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. ...