Women's Day

March 8th is celebrated as "Women's Day" world over. This year it was celebrated with the same fervor and enthusiasm with the media noting achievements of highly acclaimed women in various fields and industries. It made me proud and inspired, to read about all these women who have conquered the heights of success.Reading their stories about enduring struggles and conquering will power made me look at them with respect for all that they have gone through and for all that they have achieved.

And then I realized, it was a very familiar feeling. A feeling that I experience almost everyday. It was a feeling that I get when I look, talk, hear and see women who touch my life on an everyday basis. These women are my friends, my relatives, my acquaintances, my co-workers. Each and everyone of them is unique in her own special way. Some hold high posts in corporate offices and some are stay at home moms, some are entrepreneurs and some are artists, some are professionals and some are social workers. And all this while going through a complex routine called life. Each one of them has her own struggles and her own victories. They are walking this rope of life while balancing their professions, relationships and kids with a huge smile on their faces. Each one of them has this innate strength and power to face what life brings to them, determined to make their lives happy and fulfilling in the path they have chosen for themselves.

And these are the women who are my true inspirations. They help me in their own unique ways, knowingly or unknowingly, to carry on with my own life. They are the ones who give me strength when I feel weak. They amaze and inspire me with their attitude towards life. Each one of them has a lesson to teach. These are real women with faces, voices, families and lives. Ones whom I can relate to. Ones whose lives are not very different from mine and yet so very different.

This women's day, I would like to thank all you wonderful girls for just being you and touching my life in some special way which has helped me get closer to understanding the true meaning of living life.