We women are born celebrities. Am I sounding like the average feminist, I may, but I can assure you I am not. I will definitely reason out why I think women are born celebrities and I am pretty confident that you will agree with me. To start with, you will agree that as women you have been encountering people all throughout, right from home to the world outside, who are interested in your life. Tell you about what you should be doing and having a advice for every aspect of your life , right from your studies , job, marriage, kids to how to run your own home. Now do you connect, why we are celebrities… Not yet, then you just think about those celebrities on whom we have passed our opinions and have seen numerous others doing the same, even if they have done little or nothing to improve their own life. 

All this starts right in your family itself. It could be your brother(s), sister(s), your uncle(s), aunt(s), your cousin(s) or any other relation that you can think off. When you are in school they will be advising about further studies and announcing their opinion about your subject choices, then about your career choices and then probably about your choice of the organization that you are joining, and all this opiniating at a periodic interval even if you never asked for. The buck does not stop here, if you plan not to work then they will conclude that you are not good enough to get a job. Especially after marriage, now a days it becomes a double edged sword. If you are working and end up contributing less to the household chores you get hammered, if you decide not to take up full time work outside but concentrate on running the house whole heartedly, you still get hammered for not pursuing a job. And if you plan to take up a job or start a business/self-employment which allows you to work from home, then my friend you are cooking up a recipe for disaster. You are looked upon as an out-casted creature who is neither good enough for a regular office going job nor a serious contributor towards running your household chores. At times you may feel like, to stop seeing all these folks as human beings and rather start counting them as opinion pendulums in your life.

People will keep questioning every step of yours on planet earth, whether it is about your work, about your plans to have kids or your career choice post being a mom… blah.. blah.. blah… So basically, they will have problem with anything you do. 

By now, you might have found some part or the other relatable to your own life, and I am sure this has been irritating you. This happening on day to day basis is therefore amplified frustration. And the way to deal with it is, think like a celebrity because with all this interest in your life you have become one ;). How do celebrities handle the nosy paparazi, the twitter trolls or thousands other giving them career advice or belittling their work. Their mantra is simple, pick the best and ignore the rest. This should be your mantra too. In fact with my experience I have learnt that there will be and there should be such people around you. Mostly, people who try to make you feel small by boasting their achievements or by proving that whatever decisions you take are wrong are those insecure lot who have not achieved anything great in their life. But, the good part is, that they are more confident and interested about you, and they even talking nonsense about you atleast signifies their acknowledgement about your existence and realization of your achievement. So enjoy it, till it lasts and do not get edgy about the opinions, they are just opinions after all.

So guys, understand your potential and capability and work on it. You are worth everything you aspire in your life. Nobody other than you can know yourself better. Just have faith and confidence in yourself and you have nothing to  prove to anyone other than yourself. Make yourself happy and your life worthwhile.

Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu..