Liberate your soul...!!!

People say life is  a gift, so if it's a gift why to waste it in pleasing people all the time. Learning to be happy is the most difficult and cumbersome task, and at times people learn it through really hard ways. And more than that it takes ages to realize as to what makes one happy, and when that realization dawns, don’t let it go. Hold on it and do every thing that makes you happy. There's a phase in everyone's life when one would want it all hunky dory, to make everyone happy around, but it's not  a cake walk. People will never be pleased all the times, then why to sweat over it.

I'm a woman of free spirit and mind, and being independent keeps me happy. And if people take me to be rude and snob for that, I don't care. Well one end's up sacrificing and compromising a lot for co-existence, but then why to change your lifestyle and mindset for existing with someone who doesn't even respect your choice. When will we grow up and mature as a society? Why is there so much societal pressure, don't we deal with so many other kinds of pressure on a daily basis? Isn't peer & parental pressure not enough???

As a child we deal with peer pressure at school & parental pressure at home. As we grow up the pressure starts growing at various levels, if the neighbor's daughter has cracked the MBA entrance it becomes an issue of your parent's respect to crack an exam of higher difficulty levels, even if you don't have the brains to knack it. Your cousin gets a suitable match in a rich family, it becomes a pressure on you to get married into a family richer and famous than them. Your friend gets a new job with a higher salary in a good company, you're forced to think about your career as to where it's leading even if you're happy with your job. People around you will demotivate to the core that you'll start hating your job.

Such is the story of societal pressure, and it doesn’t ends here. It seeps deeper into so many other levels for women who later get married. Even if you get along well with your in-laws people will question you in a manner making you feel like  an intruder in husband's family. Poor girl who leaves her own house, city, career and friends just to get accommodated in a new family environment has to go through various levels of quality check before she gets the approved seal of a family member. In the initial few months after marriage the daughter-in-law is more of a thing flaunted by the mother-in-law, so the poor girl needs to be dressed up through out and have to ensure that she ends up entertaining and pleasing her mother-in-law's friends who are nothing but a bunch of Indian desperate housewives having no life of their own. Then the next level of pressure leads one to following strict instructions for everything starting from what to wear, what  to cook, what TV show to watch, how to clean the house and a range of other things, which you can very well decide by yourself as a matured individual but are not allowed to do because you have to please your in-laws by taking their opinion for everything in life and moreover following it as well. Such is the scenario of our so called pseudo- modern Indian society, where people  claim themselves to be modern and advanced but their minds are still corrupted with backward mentality.

Every time when we want to do something of our own, we are questioned by the same old clichéd statement " what will people think", who cares what people think, this is our own life, no one but we ourselves are responsible for it, people won't come for rescue in our bad times.  It's time we realize our source  of happiness, break away all the shackles of societal pressure, liberate our souls from the opinions of other people who don't matter and do thinks which we like. As I mention earlier  that Life is a gift, make the most of it. Live it to the fullest, enjoy it in your own unique way without thinking as to what other's will think. People will always talk and think, let that not influence you in such a way that you lose the track of your own life.  People who matter to you will accept you as your are, hence there's no point of changing yourself for others.