(This piece is strictly feminine, a tribute to womanhood and specially dedicated to my sister and niece who are just coming to the world of adult-womanhood)

Imagine you sneak into the bed feeling better and lighter than the kite of autumn-start but when you wake up, you feel as if your waist’s rebelling like a separatist; you grope for  the bathroom, and you pee a stream of blood .What would you do ? Chop- chop! Change and rush to the doctor? Nay…You need not hasten…this is just a cycle honey bunny!!This happens every four days of all your adult-months till the menopausal-hollowness.
And trust me, this is an uncommon experience bestowed upon the fairies only .You are undergoing what the half of the whole population is quite unaware of. Lucky you, you pee blood every month means you are a beautiful woman and the great forces of ‘creation’ are at work inside you. Do you know why it happens? Let me explain it for you; First, I will start with the “grand feeling’” of being born a woman.

You are a woman, God’s Magnum Opus, whom the God created with great artistic intuition and aesthetic endeavor .Look at your own beautiful body for evidence, that sleekness, that fairness, that softness, that spark and wave; those little artistic angles, curves, triangles and pyramids .God’s used all the knowledge of geometry, trigonometry, astrology, and history…to have you made. And you have got such a mighty heart my lady! You are a mother, a wife, a sister; a big ocean of love, care and warmth. You are a nature; you nurture those around you. And you are entrepreneurs, scholars, scientists, mountaineers, space-travelers and everything that human beings can be. You are simply the great. (But I am not meaning to impart that you are the superior gender).God’s equipped you with all the capacity that takes to run the world in proper order. So, God’s set out to another planet to create ‘a world’ in there, entrusting you to manage half of the things of the world here. But before leaving, God made some special arrangements for you; God built a big reservoir inside every woman.

And this is the same ‘reservoir’ because of which we pee blood every month. This reservoir is the source of strength, beauty, love, knowledge, and whatever we have. And, as the world’s changing every minute, the nature of our strength, beauty, love and knowledge is suffering change too. So, to keep up us updated with the fresh changes, our reservoirs needs to be cleaned every month .It’s not only the dead ova that we pee as blood, but also all the stale instincts,ill-desires,envies,weakness that go out as the dark-crimson flakes with pungent smell.

But why is it have to pain so much? Yes you might ask that question. It pains a lot because pain is always involved in every good thing in the world. There is pain in bearing a child, there is pain in writing something, there is pain in climbing a mountain. Just like no machine is 100% efficient, no good-thing is painless. And it pains mainly because for four days, the keeper of the reservoir (God’s own robot) is busy sweeping and mopping the great walls of uterus inside the reservoir .Likewise, the good-sweet fallopian tubes are busy piping the garbage out. This big project creates a big halchal inside and it pains because of the hard work, rushing around, dancing, feasting and celebrating of cleaning the God’s favorite woman’s reservoir and making her ready for a new start, new-born ova, new blood-cells and a new cycle of life.

Now, I hope you understood the simplicity and rationality of peeing blood. I bet it’s a lovely feeling; it makes you feel a complete woman, a fertile woman, a ready woman, an able woman, an updated woman. Because you can not get everything in life, you will have to put up with the pain, weakness and critical-sanitary-situation .As compensation, you are getting that ‘wholesome’,’complete’,’fertile’ and ‘unique’ feeling of being a woman.
So beb, while you are peeing blood, don’t feel down and don’t withdraw. You are always God’s great creature and God loves you more when you are peeing blood because with that process, you are getting cleaned up and getting ready for the biggest purpose of being alive .You are not a Chhaupadi woman, as some culture has tagged you. You are not a Chandalini, as some scripture has labeled you .You are not an untouchable during those days. You don’t have to keep distance with your dad, brothers, and with other male counter parts; you just have to hold your head high. You don’t have to keep kitchen, temples and God at bay, you just have to manage the blood properly and assist your fallopian tubes for that “big cleaning project’. C’mon honey! Wipe your tears …and let’s celebrate womanhood, let’s celebrate peeing-blood. And lemmi sing a “Bobby song” for you:
And: No, woman, no cry
No, woman, No cry
Woman, little sister, don’t shed no tears
No, woman, no cry,
In this great future, you can’t forget your past:
So dry your tears, I say,
No, woman, No cry