Women's Day !

    A shout out for all the girls, teenagers,ladies, and young women out there!!! Happy Belated Women's Day! It is not a day that is recognized by a lot of people today. To be honest, I didn't really know that there was a day for women until a couple of days ago:)
     For a while, I have been feeling grateful for the freedom and rights I have as a woman. I had a conversation with couple of my friends the other day of how some people think that girls are weak and of less value. I feel that this discrimination and stereotypes that people have of women are so wrong. They think that we are not capable of doing things and that we can only do so much to change the world.We have the ability to change lives and change the world. I feel like God has given us traits such as compassion that enables us to to change the world.
  One thing that has influenced me to have such a strong view on women's right is a book that I read last year. During the fall of last year, I read A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. It is an amazing novel of a young girl in Kabul, Afghanistan who was forced into a marriage with a much older man after her mother died. This story explains of  this girl's journey as she stayed in  this marriage. Throughout the entire book, I kept thinking " Why did she get married to him??" It was one of those books that  makes you so  frustrated but you can't put it down. I felt like this book was partially disturbing because of the way this lady was treated. She was abused and forced into things that she didn't wanted to do such as covering her face completely when she went outside. She was completely closed off from the outside world and hated by this man for not being able to produce a child. She had to see her husband get married to another girl and see her getting tortured  the same way that he  tortured her. It is one of those books that shows the emotional threshold and stamina that a woman has. She stayed in the marriage for 20 or so years until she couldn't see him abuse his second wife anymore. I won't say how the book ended, but it was an ending that saddened me and relieved me at the same time. It reminded me of how grateful I should to be able to live in a land where I could achieve my dreams and make a difference.
         To all the women out there who are young or old, never think that you are not important. We don't have to sit down and be treated poorly treated. Know that you matter and that your voice counts. You are one more person that can make difference in this world. You are capable of achieving all of your dreams as long as you believe in it. Let us be a voice for those women who can't speak and fight for what is important.