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Women Must Stop Romanticising Pain
An Important Advice to Women
Women and pain. Two inseparable entities. First there is biological pain, the pain that can’t be eliminated. It’s the price a woman pays for being a woman. And surprisingly, all women bear it and learn to live with it. And if that doesn’t show the strength of a woman, well, nothing else will.
But the shocking truth is — the relationship between a woman and pain starts from this very biological pain. And as she grows and experiences life, this strange relationship between her and pain also grows and strengthens. This natural pain of hers starts accumulating other kinds of pains, the emotional and mental agonies, and unfortunately the woman starts to bear them and learns to live with them too. And more often than not she doesn’t even realise how much all these pains are affecting her, her life, her decisions, her relationships, her mental health, her overall well-being.
Let me start with the most talked about emotional pain there is. The heartache. The heart-break. Although all pains are painful and unbearable, it’s the heartache that can really, tightly squeeze a person and push her into a corner. In that state nothing…
