When I was in the tenth class, I participated in a seminar organized by the Employment Exchange in which they had been giving us information about the professions, trades, callings and employments available in the country and they were also telling us that every person, who has taken birth in this world, has got his own wishes, his own desires, his own likings, his own aptitudes and if he is adjusted at a right work in life, there are chances of his success and such a person shall be having efficiency and sometime he proves a blessing to the nation in which he has taken birth. I started to know myself and in due course when I completed my graduation, I immediately joined Master of Arts in English and completed the same successfully. I wanted to compete for IAS and for that purpose I joined a school which was preparing youths for such competitions. My parents were rich people and they were not liking all that what I had been doing. They were interested that after completing graduation, I should be married and because of my beauty and charm so many youths from rich families had been proposing marriage with me. But I declared that I shall not marry at this stage and shall go ahead and shall be a professional woman and shall be at work. I wanted to serve the nation and my people too.
I became an IAS officer and had been getting promotions after promotions and ultimately after my retirement I was appointed as a Chairman of a Board under the state. The girls in my relations and those who were my friends married and they had been having their own life. Some of them are wives of rich people and have got a band of servants, cars, buildings and bank balances. As and when then meet me they had been saying that I had done something wrong. This life comes once and therefore, one should enjoy this life. On the other hand I was accepting this fact that this life comes once and will never come again, but one should serve the nation, its people and even people living in other countries. Only those people become great who could get their names alive in hearts of so many people around them.
On a birth day ceremony in the house of my brothers, most of my class fellows, my friends, my relatives were collected and it was a grant party. I had the occasion to meet all of them and I was happy that such occasions could collect us all, otherwise, this life was so busy that we could not get time to meet even occasionally. When we were sitting and talking on different subjects, some of my friends passed comments on my choice of life course and they were also commenting that now I am a retired officer and a retired officer is nothing but an ordinary person. I was overhearing all these adverse comments upon my choice and therefore, I wanted to leave this group. I was not happy to hear all these adverse comments.
When I got up and each one present there had a look on my body and one of my friends passed comments, " This lady may have lost so many occasions which we had been enjoying in life, but she could maintain her body, her body structure, her health, her beauty, her grace, her charm and all that which is the ultimate desire of every woman and she could achieve everything in this field. We had been enjoying life, but we lost all grace, all body charm and now we are just decorating ourselves, but in spite of all our efforts, we are not in a position to equate ourselves with this simple lady. " and another passed remarks, " She got all that because she had been having company of men and when a woman remains in company of men, she has to maintain herself and with the passing of time, she had been developing all these habits and now she is a perfect lady and we hare just decorated corps." All laughed and I just passed away with my head up and high.
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