Family of all women
Being a woman, who knew this phrase would be used in the extent that it has been today. Imagine if men started all their conversations with “Being a man”. It is ridiculous how society has just weakened our gender…not just the woman gender but any other gender that is not male.
I grew up in India and I come from a family of all woman and it definitely isn’t as progressive as America is. My mom is a single mother with three daughters. THREE DAUGHTERS…IN INDIA!!! Now, we weren’t a chaotic family but that is the perception people have when you say “We are three sisters”. The immidiate response we would get was “Oh man, good luck to your dad.” All these weird societal responses aside, no one knew that my dad left and cheated on my mom because my mom couldn’t give him a son. In fact, they were really close to aborting me once they found out my gender (Disclaimer: Finding out gender of your child was against the law in India because a lot of girl Childs were getting aborted). However, thanks to my mom…she stuck to her guns and decided to have me. My mom had enough when my dad’s mother tried giving me pneumonia when I was just a month old by putting me right in front of AC during the winters. My mom had enough and finally walked out of my dad’s house.
I can sit here and complaint about how many opportunities my sisters and I missed out on because of absent parenting but I can’t. I can’t because my life has been exciting, thrilling, and unexpected. My sisters and I have grew up just fine. My older sister is a research scientist for one of the top pharmas while my middle sister, Nikita, is doing her Master’s at University of Pennsylvania. As far as I go, I want more..more. I like chasing my passion and my passion has become women’s health. Coming from a family of all women, I have seen exactly the hardships that my sisters and my mother would go through. We are the people who come from nothing. When I say nothing, I mean nothing. I remember my sisters and I would be called in Dean’s office due to missed school payments. My mom was a single mother who had to feed three daughters, each 4-6 years apart so the intensity of our education was always at different levels. My mom would tutor, tailor clothes, and partake in competitions to provide for us.
You truly do set your own destiny. You can make your life and thrive and go places you want to be at.
