The faceless woman that we see on the roads, who is hurrying alongwith her bag slung over her shoulder, trying to race for the bus, or maybe that woman who is tagging her kids one hanging on each arm reaching them to the nearby creche, their temporary home for the day, or the one haggling with the vendor to save a penny or two.
Its these few examples of the women that I admire the most, so strong and so determined to get the home fires burning, to keep her family comfortable.
It is always a woman who stands by her family, and most of the times her man, she will always fight her battles, and at all costs see that the children get the very best she can afford.
My own maid, in her early years into marriage her husband became an alcoholic, he had a good job going as a ward boy with a top end hospital, he would down drinks till he could no more, and the wife would silently bear with his nonsense and tantrums, at times even giving him money to buy himself shoes.
I always had this feeling that she was unhappy, and one fine day, decided to ask her why she always looked so gloomy, she did not open immediately, and tried to put on a brave front like nothing happened, I let her be and after a couple of days finally broke her silence on the man who had made her life miserable and narrated her tale on how she tried to glue her whole family together.
She has three girls and one boy, all educated the boy a BCom graduate and working with a computer firm, the girl a data entry operator and the other two one a housewife and one working.
She has single handedly brought up the children the right way and taught them to fend for themselves.
Not one of them has followed her profession, and it makes me proud that I have just a wee part to play here.
Encouraging her, goading her and basically sympathizing with her, giving her a ear when she was down helped her a long way.
One fine day her husband was sacked from his 'plush' job, she got crazy at least that kept him out of her hair during his job hours. Can you believe what she did ? this tiny woman, who does not know to read.
She plucked up courage and went off to meet the top bosses of his department ,begging to give him one last chance, and she even gave them the option of taking on her son... hats off to this tiny woman.(He had been warned many times before he was sacked!), she walked in one evening dressed up better than other work days, and that is when she told me her courage and motivation that took her all the way to the bosses.
The end story nothing could be done to get back his job, But my heart goes out to this woman who did whatever she could to save things for the same man who had destroyed her happiness and peace.
She still works with me, a much settled woman as now her children are big and doing well for themselves the boy has even managed to buy a house in the surburbs for his family. All because of the strength of this tiny gutsy, woman.
I admire the woman despite all odds, who will never lie back and complain, instead pick up the pieces and join them to form a whole.
She will always be One of my Heroes
Its these few examples of the women that I admire the most, so strong and so determined to get the home fires burning, to keep her family comfortable.
It is always a woman who stands by her family, and most of the times her man, she will always fight her battles, and at all costs see that the children get the very best she can afford.
My own maid, in her early years into marriage her husband became an alcoholic, he had a good job going as a ward boy with a top end hospital, he would down drinks till he could no more, and the wife would silently bear with his nonsense and tantrums, at times even giving him money to buy himself shoes.
I always had this feeling that she was unhappy, and one fine day, decided to ask her why she always looked so gloomy, she did not open immediately, and tried to put on a brave front like nothing happened, I let her be and after a couple of days finally broke her silence on the man who had made her life miserable and narrated her tale on how she tried to glue her whole family together.
She has three girls and one boy, all educated the boy a BCom graduate and working with a computer firm, the girl a data entry operator and the other two one a housewife and one working.
She has single handedly brought up the children the right way and taught them to fend for themselves.
Not one of them has followed her profession, and it makes me proud that I have just a wee part to play here.
Encouraging her, goading her and basically sympathizing with her, giving her a ear when she was down helped her a long way.
One fine day her husband was sacked from his 'plush' job, she got crazy at least that kept him out of her hair during his job hours. Can you believe what she did ? this tiny woman, who does not know to read.
She plucked up courage and went off to meet the top bosses of his department ,begging to give him one last chance, and she even gave them the option of taking on her son... hats off to this tiny woman.(He had been warned many times before he was sacked!), she walked in one evening dressed up better than other work days, and that is when she told me her courage and motivation that took her all the way to the bosses.
The end story nothing could be done to get back his job, But my heart goes out to this woman who did whatever she could to save things for the same man who had destroyed her happiness and peace.
She still works with me, a much settled woman as now her children are big and doing well for themselves the boy has even managed to buy a house in the surburbs for his family. All because of the strength of this tiny gutsy, woman.
I admire the woman despite all odds, who will never lie back and complain, instead pick up the pieces and join them to form a whole.
She will always be One of my Heroes
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