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Men Can Cry?

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(Inserted from Pinterest) People are usually of a notion that living in a patriarchal society is difficult for women, but what people don’t realize is that it is equally difficult for men too. How?   Well, there are various instances of it and one of them is, it makes men emotionally numb. “Mard ko dard nahi hota” , “Kya ladki jaisa rota hai”, are some of the few dialogues that a man gets to hear, nearly on a daily basis. But, are these dialogues really credible? Being in a patriarchal society it becomes a serious code of conduct for a man to not cry and be “strong”. From a very young age, boys are taught not to cry as that will make them look weak and vulnerable, but is this code of conduct and teaching correct? Biologically both boy and girl are programmed to cry equally. Till the age of 5, both of them cry nearly equal times. So, what transpires around the age of 5 which makes boys “emotionally locked”? A simple explanation can be those teaching of the society w...
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Menstruation - An Untaught Topic

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Menstruation – An Untaught Topic. (Photo by Erol Ahmed on Unsplash) Does your male friend know what periods actually are? Is he aware of the menstruation cycle that girls/women go through every month? Well, these are the questions that still need to be answered in 2019. Why? For the simple reason that people still taboo the whole concept of Menstruation, hygiene among girls/women and sex. When the whole world has accepted the idea of equality among men and women and is implementing the same, the topic of menstruation doesn't get the much-needed attention. But why is this happening? The appropriate answer to this would be ·         The complex and regressive socio-economic and religious reasons. People in rural and urban areas still have this myth that the women become impure on her menstruation days and hence they shouldn't be allowed to make food or should not be allowed inside the temple. ·       Also, the...
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Melancholic comfort.

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A dark shady place of melancholy, one would not want to leave, from being sad occasionally to being sad all the time, this is how it feels to be in depression. So, what is depression, is it different from being sad and low, how does it feel to be in depression, how to identify depression,   let’s talk about it. What is depression? According to the oxford dictionary, depression means feelings of severe despondency and dejection. Sadness, feeling down, having a loss of interest – are the symptoms familiar to all of us, but if they persist it may be depression. Lack of joy, low interest in performing day to day activities, low enthusiasm in doing the task of interest, frequent mood changes  may be some of the symptoms of depression. Difference between depression and sadness. Sadness can be due to a sudden loss, disappointment, or other difficult situations. It is one of the many feelings that living beings have. The feeling of sadness goes qui...
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20 Before 20 - Things that I learned before turning 20.

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So, its my birthday next month, and as I laid down after a long hectic day, I realized that there were many things that I have learned in the past few years which has helped me grow. So, without wasting anytime I decided to share it with you guys. These are the things which I have experienced myself and hence want to share it with you.       You cannot make everyone happy.  Sad but true, this is the first thing which I learned that you cannot make everyone happy, hence stop running behind people to make them happy, instead stop and make yourself happy and it will then automatically make everyone else happy around you.                                                            Not everyone is same . You may have a bad experiences with people, but trust me dude not everyone is same. Hence st...
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