What is your career plan?
I had many, honestly.
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Some days I was supposed to become a famous illustrator.
Some days, a writer.
Sometimes I discover a new talent at 2 a.m. and immediately plan an entire successful future around it before sleeping peacefully like a visionary.
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Homemakers are actually full of potential.
Dangerous amounts of potential.
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We can manage homes, budgets, emotions, schedules, disasters, and people who suddenly remember important things exactly when we sit down to rest.
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But somewhere between taking care of everyone else’s needs and postponing ourselves “just for now,”
our dreams slowly stop sounding like plans…
and start sounding like hobbies we apologize for having.
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That’s the strange thing about homemakers.
We don’t give up on our dreams dramatically.
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We just keep moving them to tomorrow so lovingly, so responsibly, so repeatedly…
that one day even the dream starts feeling guilty for existing.
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And maybe this is true for so many women —
they never really stopped having dreams, ambitions, or career plans.
They just became so busy building everyone else’s life
that their own quietly kept waiting.
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But I hope they never believe it is “too late” for them.
Because dreams do not expire simply because a woman chose responsibility before herself.
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And one day, I hope every woman gets to return to the version of herself she once imagined
not as someone selfish,
but as someone finally remembering that her life mattered too. 🤍
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Dedicated to all the women who kept everyone else’s world running while quietly placing their own dreams on hold.
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—Rajeshwari 🧿💕
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