Hubby has a sore throat and a cold coming on and so was in the kitchen this morning, making rounds of tulsi-adrak-pepper chai and khichdi, when my cook smiled and said to me, "We women are different, no Amma? God has made us different with more himmat(courage) to bear pain and difficulties." She works a 17 hour day, in order to fulfill her dream of giving a quality education to her two children, and deals quite effectively with a headstrong, bullying husband. I wondered then, what really makes us women different? Is it because Nature has made pain such an inevitable part of our lives with menstruation and childbirth? And so we learn to live with it. Our experiences teach us that the worst of pain will pass, that it has a purpose to it, that it will leave a precious gift behind. Or else could it be that the world teaches us from an early age to think of pain as a woman's fate, to bear it and not make a fuss?
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