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Weekly Intent - Ankita Sharma

Intent - April 26, 2008

I always respected this youth icon.
Look in her eyes, don’t you see that spark. She still has that charismatic aura around her which till date captivates our heart.

It’s her, really its Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, or late Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, who passed away on 27th December 27, 2007. What really made her what she was, the belief, the super belief in herself, in entire humanity. She withheld this very belief that one day her people, her motherland will embrace her.Yes she was embraced, embraced by death, that too before the eyes of her people. Whom to blame for this, who am I to say, right.

I have grown up respecting this women by deepest core of my heart. What made me adore her was her ideology, her simplicity, her deterministic attitude, which simply motivates every single young women like me to walk on her footsteps. Yes I may not be the one to rule the country, I may not be the one to fight publicly, but I fight back daily, daily in my life. I guess each women has battle to win. She knew she would die if ever she comes back to her people, but yet fear of death could not deter her coming back. Similarly every women at every stage of life has to fear for her life, but certainly that does not necessarily make her back off. She could not win her battle, but what she has instigated, instigated that fire within the womanhood which will be exemplary for the world to see.

Women are not only the weaker sex, they have the courage to fight odds, to stand by their words, to lay their lives while promoting good cause. So gear up all the girls, all the women, be ready to be strong, be ready to fight till your last breath, be utmost ready to say what you feel like, what you feel is right in your parlance, fight for it….

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Posted by Intent at April 26, 2008 10:33 PM

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Dear Ankita,
it is touching to read how much you love and respect Mrs. Bhutto. You have found your inspiration in her and it helps you transcend your daily life challenges. I wish you success on your path to power.

I was thinking that it is important for women today to understand one thing- even if it feels like a battle, it doesn't need to be one. What has kept women enslaved is our own agreement to a worldview, our own participation in a story of inequality. Letting go of it is not really a battle, it is more correct to see it as growth.

We are growing out of an old belief in our weakness. Life is pressing itself through our old definitions of ourselves, demanding that we allow its enormous power to emerge. It is like giving birth... why see it as a battle when it can be an ecstatic allowing for life to be born in a new way? There is ecstasy in embracing your inner power, can you feel it? Busting those old ways, refusing to continue the farce, laughing whenever you or anyone returns to the untruth of weakness or dominance... there is such joy in it.
Fear for life? Maybe fear of life's greatness, expressed unhindered through every one of us.

Courage of heart and strength of mind will make your journey rewarding.

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