To 'be' who you are, to think, to reflect, to scream if the world turns at you, to cry if the heart so desires, to sing if the mood sways, to perhaps, dance! A room of one's own is the need of the hour. A place of silence, a place full of sound, a place to bounce off ideas, a place to indulge, a place for secret meetings, a place for forbidden pleasures, whatever the fancy a room is what one needs.
A woman without a room of her own is lost in the tumult of other lives, other people's wants and thoughts, she cannot sort what is hers from what is someone Else's. She is incomplete. A woman, whether married or unmarried, must have a room to herself, her safe place to retreat to, her sanctuary to unmask and unburden, to be what she wants to be.
My room is my world. It is where I think, it is my haven in this world, where I can write and read, and be without the pressures of this world. My room is my freedom to be whatever I may want to be at that moment.
More than men, women need their own space, their territory, it might have something to do with life-instinct, with procreation, with stability, with wanting solidity. She wants the hard concrete walls around her to feel safe, to feel alone and with her own company. She needs that solitude to sift her emotions, to recharge her energies, to renew her balance. A woman without a room stands out as a woman stressed, a woman who is in dire need of a soothing stretch, woman has to unwind and she needs the communion with nature and herself to do that, and for that a place which is bounded and marked as hers is very important.
A woman at different times of the day, of the month, must reinvent her own person, sort out her moods, her ways of being and how is she to do that cramped up with husband and the kids??? so the men move over, children take a back seat, and Mums get yourself a room designated as your area exclusively! and see the change in yourself!
So, if you are a woman, get yourself a separate room, and if a bathroom is thrown in the bargain, all the better!
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