NihshabdBlog

Category: Woman Empowerment

  • The “Maybe Later” Life of Women 🤍

    The “Maybe Later” Life of Women 🤍

    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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    A thoughtful woman sitting by a window, surrounded by notes and dreams, with the title The “Maybe Later” Life of Women written artistically beside her.
    Some women keep becoming everyone else’s future… while postponing their own. 🤍

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    —Rajeshwari 🧿💕

    © Nihshabd by Rajeshwari. All Rights Reserved

  • The Space Between Her Names

    What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning/significance?

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    A woman looking out a window beside a notebook and coffee, symbolizing reflection and the hidden story between her names.
    The quiet story every woman carries within her name.

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    “What is your middle name? Does it carry any special meaning or significance?”

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    A curious little question.

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    But for many women, a middle name is rarely just a name.

    It is often a quiet inheritance.

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    Sometimes it carries a grandmother’s strength.

    Sometimes a mother’s unfinished dream.

    Sometimes a family’s hope that she will hold the world together… politely.

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    And sometimes it carries nothing anyone wrote down

    just the silent training that began very early:

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    be kind,

    be patient,

    be graceful,

    be smaller than your anger,

    bigger than everyone else’s expectations.

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    A middle name can be many things for a woman

    a blessing, a memory, a responsibility,

    or a soft reminder of who she was expected to become.

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    But the beautiful part?

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    Somewhere along the way, she starts writing her own meaning into it.

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    Not just with sacrifice,

    but with dignity.

    With quiet authority.

    With the gentle but undeniable varchasva of a woman who finally understands her worth.

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    So this little prompt about a middle name…

    is actually a very big question.

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    Because every woman carries a story between her first name and her last.

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    And that space

    that quiet space

    is where her real identity slowly begins to bloom.

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    —Rajeshwari🧿💕

    © Nihshabd by Rajeshwari. All Rights Reserved