Monday, February 25, 2013

10 Days without Lipstick


A 3-months’ old infant is able to distinguish between a male and a female…even if it is a long haired Dad or a bald Mom. He knows whom he’ll refer as Aunty and Uncle. So, there is an inherent recognizable difference between the genders that exists at basic level.

And we all know what makes a woman- the colors, the hair, the laughter, a little drama and yes, Lipsticks :)

Lipsticks, roses, laced satin bras, hair curlers, eyes shadows, high heels, romantic songs, shopping, gossip, face whitening masks, jealousies, kisses, good byes, bitching, long phone calls, silly mistakes, wrongful parking and weight gain worries- is this how a woman is recognized?

What if 27 women are doomed to stay without these for a whooping 10 days and 11 nights?
I am not conducting any hypothetical study here. This is based on a ‘true story’ : )
Yes this catastrophe is what I experienced during my Vipassana course. 

No flirts, no nail paints, no matching jewelry, no teady bears, no texting or waxing, no escalators, no chocolates or ice-creams, no electronics, no pavilion rides, no candy crushes, no low waist jeans, no coochie-coos, no 50% off sales, no name-blame-games, no boy-friend trackings, no vodkas, no useless arguments…….Not even “I-love-you”s.

Ever wondered what would these women have found in absence of all these distractions?

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