दायरे और कटघरे
What are the boundaries (दायरे) I have created that limit me? What are the standards (कटघरे) I have created against which I constantly judge myself?
My mother once lamented – given the challenging relationships she had with my brothers’ wives – I became a good wife, a good daughter-in-law, a good mother, but I couldn’t become a a great mother-in-law.
मैं अच्छी बहू, बीवी, माँ तो बन पायी पर अच्छी सास नहीं बन पायी.
I hope there were times she also got live beyond these roles, fully herself. Just Uma. I hope she got a chance to be true to herself, rather than to some दायरा or कटघरा she or the social structures she inhabited has created.
Because what else is freedom?