MY NAME, MY IDENTITY AND MY STORY By Swetha

MY NAME, MY IDENTITY AND MY STORY

 

Hi, I am Swetha. ‘My name is my identity’ is my belief. I ask this question to myself whenever I write my name.

“Did I really give identity to my name?”

Okies let me begin my story. I am a normal girl grown into a woman now. This is the first time I pulled my courage to pen down my thoughts.

There are so many people I have to show my gratification in this course of life and so many times I haven’t. Sometimes forgotten, sometimes taken for granted, sometimes realised later. This is my first writing and let me take the opportunity to show my gratification to the first persons in my life. MY MOTHER and MY FATHER who brought me to this world.

My mother “Jayalakshmi” is pillar of my strength. She is not educated but courageous to make her way in this world of literate arrogance. She is not a feminist and only know that the world is her family. She is a hard worker. There were many time the family had to depend on her in difficulty for food, for education and many other. There were times when my father had to go through tough times but she stood as rock pillar to support him.

Since I attained my education, I sometimes felt why my mother was so ignorant. Why was she supporting my father?  My father, because of his incapability in his business brought us all into financial crisis. Nevertheless, as I grew, I understood that she was the reason we still are a family. She was the reason who held us together, protected us and bonded us. Even though, we had lots of crisis I learned to laugh through it. I learned to face it.

My father “Gopal” is otherwise such a lovable person who was feeling guilty for the financial losses he caused unknowingly or by wrong calculation. What happened is cannot be changed. However, he gathered courage and continued to move with his life for the sake of the family with a question What Next? This is the attitude, I learned from him. He shaped my attitude to be courageous at the face of adversity and ask myself “What Next?”

Dear friends, every incident in our life and every person in our life teaches us life a lesson and we will learn when right time arrives and required. Let us be always grateful to what we have and show our gratitude to our parents in shaping our life.

“Did I really give identity to my name?” Yes, Swetha is identified as courageous women who carries smile even during tough times and asks life What Next? Like hundreds of women there.

Thanks for reading my life journey and I hope there is some learning for you.

Swetha.G