I have read and heard about the hijra community before. The book Beautiful Thing talks about it in quite a detail. But today I read this, and I wondered about the human struggle to be something else...
It seems that, most of us, are fighting to be something else. Struggling to be someone else. There are people like Mona, born male, but wanting to be female. There are females, who don manly clothes, walk with a swagger and expect the world to look at them with fear. And then there are people like you and me, comfortable in our maleness and femaleness, but still struggling to free ourselves. Still fighting with ourselves, with our families, with the society.
And while the hijras need a sex-change to be what they want to be, it's never too late for us to drop the past baggage and be what we want to be.
Everyone has a chance to be what they wish to be.
I need to remember that often.
It seems that, most of us, are fighting to be something else. Struggling to be someone else. There are people like Mona, born male, but wanting to be female. There are females, who don manly clothes, walk with a swagger and expect the world to look at them with fear. And then there are people like you and me, comfortable in our maleness and femaleness, but still struggling to free ourselves. Still fighting with ourselves, with our families, with the society.
And while the hijras need a sex-change to be what they want to be, it's never too late for us to drop the past baggage and be what we want to be.
Everyone has a chance to be what they wish to be.
I need to remember that often.
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