"I hate you God",I grumbled.
"What's your complaint now?",God asked lightly,enjoying His cold coffee topped with chocolate ice cream.
"Why did you create women to serve men? Can't it be other way round? Don't women have any identity?Don't women deserve some care and respect?"
"What? When did I say women are born to serve men?",He asked,mildly surprised but still not leaving His cold coffee.
"The scriptures say so.Some sage has said that that's how God willed the Earth to be.With men being in command and women feeling lucky to be able to serve them.",I was almost fuming now,ready to pour out my temper.
"Hold on now,don't say like that.Let me just recollect about what happened millenia ago.....ya now I get it! Ha! See,I'll share this video with you,and you judge based on that about who did what,okay?",God handed me His super-phone to view the video.
***
Adam and Eve are resting in some garden.Adam turns to Eve and says "Hey! I don't think we can survive on fruits whole year.These take time to grow.I saw some funny looking white seeds that seems edible enough to eat.We'll try boiling them in water to clean them.I'll pick those up and we'll give it a try.What do you think?"
"You read my mind so well! I was going to seek your opinion about the same!"
Adam smiles,"Am so lucky to have you,you and I think on the same lines"
The next day,Adam is busy collecting the 'white seeds' and Eve fills water and boils it.Adam had to travel to and fro to the fields and back since he had no bag or sack to collect the white seeds.Meanwhile,Eve removed the chaffs as they seemed to taste bitter and but the seeds one by one onto the boiling water.
The seeds did seem edible but there was still some more exploration to be done.
Adam lay down beside Eve,tired, and asked her if she could massage his legs.Eve happily did it,after which a grateful Adam offered to massage Eve's neck which was aching after all the bending over the boiling water.
They found the correct way to cook rice,and taught that to their children too.
The clan grew and grew.It was established that the women will stay at home and cook,while the men bring in the raw materials.And women shall serve their partners while the men take rest.
The great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Adam and Eve once opined,"I want to go out hunting too"
Her brothers laughed,and told her to stay at home and cook.
"But why?"
"That's what your great-great-great grandmother did!",they replied in chorus.
***
I was still trying to get the meaning of the video,while God was happily licking off the cream from the glass.
"So what does this mean? Does that give you the right to write inscriptions that say women are nothing but servants for looking after home?"
God sighed."You spoiled the positive after effects of having a cold coffee.My dear Ms. Ignorant,did I write the inscriptions?"
"Well I guess you authorised some human to write",I said,feeling a little less confident.
"Then you see,thats how human beings are.They don't want to change.They like the order that has been set for them since ages to remain intact.They don't like confrontations.They don't like to try something new with each generation.They don't want to do anything else!"
"But then what is the difference between humans and donkeys?",I asked,confused.
God grinned."It's not enough to be born human.You have to prove that you are one!"
And He went off to get a blackcurrant milkshake.
And He went off to get a blackcurrant milkshake.
P.S:
No disregard or disrespect towards Adam and Eve.Or donkeys.Just a tiny attempt at trying to reconstruct the events based on my thoughts.
We don't know if it's right when we say women have been made to serve men since time immemorial.It can be that as the society 'progressed',the relationship between men and women became unequal,creating more of a Master and Slave,instead of having love and respect.
So let me assume that it all started fine,but somewhere in the middle,it got tangled into the monotonicity of "the tried and tested" scenario.
Do think about it once :)
Cheers! Have a happy week ahead!
