Showing posts with label boy. Show all posts
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Friday, 8 July 2022

How to get attention? by Juhi Meshram

22:11

If you ask people how to get attention, they mostly say why do you want it? Why would somebody want attention? There are a thousand explanations but a simple answer that they wish to feel wanted, we all do. We want people to remember us, miss us, value us or want us in different ways and there is nothing immature about it. But the big question is how do you get attention?

Well, you don't get it by simply asking for it, because we humans find hidden answers in simple things. You are considered desperate for trying hard and ignorant for keeping it casual. So when a friend asked me this question and I had nothing to say to her, I decided to Google "how to get attention from a man?". And as expected I found so many articles but not a single one had the answer for that. Instead, the articles said so much about how to impress your man, how to understand signs from a man or how to keep him interested in you. There was not one sensitive answer for a woman who might be looking for one, who might be looking to be considered important. It got me thinking, is it too off-stream to demand attention?

So I asked myself why would I, a 29 year old woman, ask Google about what a woman wants. So I stormed into my inner woman for an answer and I realized that there's no direct answer for it since I don't know how a man's mind work and it is not my place to guess or tell a man how to make a woman feel more attended. But there is one thing that is in my place to do and that is what I am going to do here.

I am going to tell you one very obvious thing that we all know but avoid confronting and that is our true emotion. The reason being, whenever we have tried it in the past, we have been heartbroken. Be it in our past relationships, our social lives or our professional lives. If I speak for majority of women, we have been taken for granted by our men, we have tried too hard to fit into society and we have definitely been questioned for making it big in our careers. It has been empowering to fight the odds but it has always been tough for our mental well being. Is it easy to understand now that why a woman seeks attention?

There might be a similar story for men but I would leave it for a man to tell. As for a woman, being a woman, all I can say is that we all have someone special in our lives and those special ones need our time, attention and emotion from time to time. And for you, no matter how many people you have in your life, you want that one person to be attentive to you. Now, this one special person might change multiple times in your life but till the time you have that one person, give them all the attention you can. And if you think it's too tough for you to provide them with that, then be upfront and tell them. Lets just be realistic and accept that there can be different special ones in different point of our lives or more than one special-ones at same point of our lives. Yes! I am considering the casual relationships we have and even then we are entitled to value all our 'casually-special' ones. I am a woman and I want attention and so does your woman. And instead of thinking why does anybody want attention, just think that a little attention may soothe a fragile mind struggling to sail through the day. 



written by:
Juhi Meshram

on cover:
Nibedita Upadhyai





Sunday, 14 May 2017

The Absolute Association by Juhi Meshram

15:28


What is the mother? They asked me. And then found the desired answer without my consent and suddenly I became a cover story for that news channel.

Dekhiye iss mother’s day pe, ek bin maa baap ke bacche ki tadap.

You can find an eleven year old boy near the square begging every day. He starts when the signal turns red. Every vehicle that stops at the signal has somewhere witnessed his plea. Some of them ignore, some of them push him away, some give him a penny or two and some of them just pass by.

But! No one ever bothered to think about him, about his background that why is he begging?  Where are his parents? Are they alive or dead? If they are dead why the boy is not sent to any orphanage? Why begging? Is he alone or is there a racket? Is there someone who is forcing him to beg?

What is his story? What is the story of the boy who begs?

The boy refused to tell anything so we decided to cover him one full day. A team of cameraman followed him from morning to night and what we got at the end was shocking…

And they told what I do all day. I come to the signal in the morning, I beg with my friends. We get the money. Give it to Sahab, behind the hotel. We eat wadapav near the station and then we enter the railway station and beg. In the evening we handover the final amount to Sahab. Trice a day that we go to the signal for begging. Morning, afternoon and night when there is maximum rush. At night we often go to beach and beg.

We tried but couldn’t find the link that dragged him to this cruel business of begging. And he is not alone, there are many like him. We have seen these boys and even girls sobbing in the corner, they miss their parents, they say. The only words that the boy said were, “do you know where my mother is, I miss her”.

On this mother’s day, our team asks the nation to stop and see the miserable condition of these beggars and their urge to meet their parents… their mothers.

They lied in the TV show. I don’t miss my mother because I never had one. I have no clue of where was I born, how I grew up and who brought me to this signal. I am not allowed to say who make me beg. But this is the world I live in. All that I can do to survive is begging. But why is it a story for people. Why is it a matter of concern? I beg to live. May be I can do better things, go places and earn more, but how does it matters to the nation?

I have seen people, so many people. In cars, trains, bikes, buses. They travel; they are together, with family. They wear good clothes, eat biryanis, they have family. They must be rich, they enjoy life. But what if I don’t have these, still I breathe; still I earn and feed my stomach. Only thing that I regret is giving my earning to Sahab. He is selfish; he uses our money to feed his family. His wife wears jewelleries. His kids go to school, they don’t work like us. Oh! That is why family is important.

May be I could save myself from Sahab if I had a family. Then I could have all my earnings with me or I would not be working at all if had a family. I never thought this way. But what now? Can I get a mother now?  The TV show said people should adopt us. But why will they? But! If they do, if a mother can save me from Sahab , then I surely need a mother.




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