Reading an article on Facebook through Mashable on Indra Nooyi, the CEO and chairperson of Pepsico, the second largest food and beverage business in the world and ranked 13th (2014) by Forbes's list of World's 100 most powerful women in world made me put down my thoughts this early morning. She said in her interview (in the article by Mashable) that Women can't have it all even if they want to. This very thought made me go back and forth in the time, think of more examples around and see how women in my life are managing their life be it mom, aunt, neighbors, teachers or doctors etc. The thinking process made me more worried of how fast life is changing and how challenging it is going to be, the routine roles that a women is holding and executing day in and day out has not changed and it seems it wont change in future, yes the usual and powerful roles of been a daughter, mother, wife, friend, sister, mother-in-law, sister-in-law many more. And the roles that she has to play to out stand herself in the corporate world or her career are never ending.
I don't want to brag about these roles played by women or how successfully they are managing these roles or how they are influencing young girls or young minds across globe but I want to focus more on how I, my friends, those around me in their mid 20s and those in their 30s or say we all women are going forward. The women who are married and who are on the point of getting married or lets just say singles are they really ready for what future has kept in store for them? Have we all started planning for the coming future to manage such leading roles in our lives and still keep "everyone" around us happy? This is and would be never-ending test of our life in which we would fail and pass, give satisfaction and get blamed from our very own people but tell me have we really set ourselves on the path of been multilevel, multi-role model?
I am not afraid of getting into one of these as we have many examples to follow but I am worried from the inside that like me there would be many who would be thinking that whether we would be able to make it or some might think why me? why do only I have to face this. Some would be just taking their lives casually and fighting with time to manage all and some would be very smart and mature to understand before time and be proactive in it.
As Indra Nooyi mentioned a memoire from her past of been named as President and the reaction to her by her mother who said she maybe president or leader in a company but at home she is still a wife, daughter, mother et al baffled me for minutes and now I think even if we do climb the ladder of success it is always going to be difficult to satisfy our family members or friends with whom we would be trying to manage every hour. Today we can enjoy movies, food and all other recreational activities or take our careers ahead under the privilege of our sweet and loving mother. We can happily fall sick and happily prepare deserts, lie on bed for hours, read novels and yet get our food on time, go to gym and job and yet be relaxed. Going Forward when this very role would be opposite, we would have to be the very essence of our family managing career, emotions, physique, strength, time, friends, people and I am just hoping that we go through this smoothly and safely.
There is no step by step instructions or guiding manual for the roles to be played be it for an actress, director of some company, a clerk, a teacher, a scientist or a housewife. As I had said earlier every women has to go through this and has to learn on her own on how to handle it all. We all would get some tips and tricks here and there but still to understand and follow and make one of them your own Golden rule is Charismatic power of yourself. You cannot expect for a miracle to happen everyday to make your life easy but you can build a self motivated and strong mechanism for yourself to start as baby steps and for next generation keep laying the foundation!
I wish that we all (women) going forward do manage to make it through be it the 21st or 22nd Century or the era of Information Technology or Media or Space.. we can make it through cause there is no other option to turn your back and just lead one single role throughout your life :-)
I don't want to brag about these roles played by women or how successfully they are managing these roles or how they are influencing young girls or young minds across globe but I want to focus more on how I, my friends, those around me in their mid 20s and those in their 30s or say we all women are going forward. The women who are married and who are on the point of getting married or lets just say singles are they really ready for what future has kept in store for them? Have we all started planning for the coming future to manage such leading roles in our lives and still keep "everyone" around us happy? This is and would be never-ending test of our life in which we would fail and pass, give satisfaction and get blamed from our very own people but tell me have we really set ourselves on the path of been multilevel, multi-role model?
I am not afraid of getting into one of these as we have many examples to follow but I am worried from the inside that like me there would be many who would be thinking that whether we would be able to make it or some might think why me? why do only I have to face this. Some would be just taking their lives casually and fighting with time to manage all and some would be very smart and mature to understand before time and be proactive in it.
As Indra Nooyi mentioned a memoire from her past of been named as President and the reaction to her by her mother who said she maybe president or leader in a company but at home she is still a wife, daughter, mother et al baffled me for minutes and now I think even if we do climb the ladder of success it is always going to be difficult to satisfy our family members or friends with whom we would be trying to manage every hour. Today we can enjoy movies, food and all other recreational activities or take our careers ahead under the privilege of our sweet and loving mother. We can happily fall sick and happily prepare deserts, lie on bed for hours, read novels and yet get our food on time, go to gym and job and yet be relaxed. Going Forward when this very role would be opposite, we would have to be the very essence of our family managing career, emotions, physique, strength, time, friends, people and I am just hoping that we go through this smoothly and safely.
There is no step by step instructions or guiding manual for the roles to be played be it for an actress, director of some company, a clerk, a teacher, a scientist or a housewife. As I had said earlier every women has to go through this and has to learn on her own on how to handle it all. We all would get some tips and tricks here and there but still to understand and follow and make one of them your own Golden rule is Charismatic power of yourself. You cannot expect for a miracle to happen everyday to make your life easy but you can build a self motivated and strong mechanism for yourself to start as baby steps and for next generation keep laying the foundation!
I wish that we all (women) going forward do manage to make it through be it the 21st or 22nd Century or the era of Information Technology or Media or Space.. we can make it through cause there is no other option to turn your back and just lead one single role throughout your life :-)
