I actually don't know if this is a global thing, but I've come to notice it a lot around people here, especially the guys. 
You
 see a single woman that is successful at what she's doing, and then the
 next thing that comes to your mind is to start opining that she must be
 bitter cos she's in her 30s or approaching 40 and not married. These 
are the kind of people that feel that for a woman, marriage is the 
biggest achievement that can happen to her. That no matter what a woman 
has in life, if there's no marriage, then she's not made, not minding 
the fact that many married women are silently suffering in their 
marriage. 
In turn, this same thought process goes on to affect 
the woman as she starts getting desperate and starts having a very low 
self esteem. The pressure gets to the point where they end up going from
 one church to the other and in so doing may fall into the prey of men 
solely looking out for these kind of women to exploit. Only those bold 
enough to shake off the society's expectation of a woman can actually 
hold their head high and not give a hoot about what anyone says.
Even
 women can be their own enemies when a married lady starts using 
another's singlehood to insult her. In my opinion, that is way below 
being petty. Now the trend is when people see fine pictures of single 
ladies on social media, the next question is "where is her husband?", 
"...who go marry this one wey don reach 30something?", "...too bad that 
she's this rich and fine with no husband"... poor reasoning I.M.O.
Ladies/Women,
 your first priority when it comes to happiness is yourself, and not to 
cater to the happiness of the society. Granted, you may have wanted to 
marry in your 20s, but if that isn't /wasn't the case, why go on killing
 yourself about it? Develop yourself the more, be beautiful to yourself,
 get that money rolling, the career moving, that business booming. If 
need be, get a baby papa and get yourself pregnant and train the child 
yourself!. If teenagers can have unwanted pregnancies and still see the 
child through childhood, successful women can surely do better! 
While
 that last part may not lie well with many, my point still is that you 
shouldn't go through life thinking having a husband would be your 
guarantee to having a fulfilled life. Having a great family is 
beautiful, if you don't have one, align your priorities and have your 
options open as to what really you CAN DO to make yourself more happy 
with YOUR LIFE.
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