Its been along time since I wrote anything. Time has flies by and i have juggled my life around it. So manythings have happened. My son is now 4 years old and my daughters are teen ger 15 and 13 ready to fly away soon from us. I am know a working mom juggling my duties as a Mother,  wife, co-coulegue, a daughter and a friend. 

Hi Friends!

Today I want to share a thought that shragged me recently. I know you people might think that this said and talked about earlier. But if you think about it no matter how many times we shed light on this topic we still remain in the dark. We choose to have knowledge but we donot choose to empliment this knowledge in our life. I choose to write about this not because I consider the practice or tradition in paticular as wrong, not because I have any religious or political agenda but just for the pure thought which provocked so many feelings in me. I also choose to write about it because it even highlights the core of living in two cultures, in two countries and ofcourse two worlds.

Yesterday we had an Indian festival which celebrates love between sister and brother. A beautiful festival as such, I must say! But my 13 year old daughter said something which will stick with me for life I guess. She asked me the purpose of this festival which I codialy answered to. I told her that sister shows her love to her brother. A sister also ask her brother to be by  her side in good and bad times and to protect her if she happens to get in any trouble anytime in her life. My daughter turned to me said " but mamma how is my two  year old brother going to protect me ". I said when he grows up then he will. She said that no matter how old he gets he is still going to be younger to me. She went on to state that it is she who protects and looks after him today and as they will grow older it is still going to be she who will look after him.  I felt myself to be at loss of words. A simple thought but so true. 

Before in the era of women being dependent members of the socity were these practices so needed. Ever women and girl had to relia on the male members of their family; meaning father, brother, husband and so on and it din't matter if you lived in Sweden or India. But todays society and culture is so different. Women have made a mark in the society. They are selfemployed, selfdependent individuals. They are capable of doing everything and anything for that matter today even in India. Having said that, I am aware of the differensen between Indian and Swedish cultures and society.

I futher asked her if we should change this tradition and let her little brother proform the rituals insteed. She did not wanted that either as she felt that her love was not bound of such gesture. She Loves him just because he is so dear to her and a memorable part of her life. 

I ask you friends, how would  you  react to this if your teenage daughter had said something like this. I am still woundering if I said all the right things to her. In the end she did proform the rituals just the way they were supposed to be proformed but the thought lingered in me for hours. She was so right and naive het so provocative. Is this the conseqvence of living in two different cultures? On this thought I leave you my dear readers. Hope U pounder on upon this heart touching thought and maybe let me be apart of your head and heart.