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I may have mentioned to some of you guys, I used to volunteer at an abused women's clinic/shelter.
Some of my most heart breaking, wrenching, happy moments were experienced there. Talking to those strong women, who have been through so much suffering, honestly it was bitter sweet, as there is no other way to describe it.
I was telling Shruthi this and I thought I would share with everyone.
There was one woman there, who was an amazing young lady, who had been constantly abused by her husband, kicked out of the house by him, his parents would just sit and watch this and at one point he almost took a gun to her.
She is now the spokesperson for the clinic.
One of her speeches has stuck in my mind ever since and I would like to share...
And it went something like this.
"When you raise your hand on someone, or even degrade them emotionally or in any way, you are asserting your superiority and labeling them as inferior. You basically treat them like 'an animal' because you are saying, you have no rights, as I am taking them away from you and telling you that: I set out what is right for you.
In that moment I realized, that I am human and so is everyone else, and at the very least I deserve to be treated like one, how can someone be so inhumane and then claim to love me the next second? Only humanity gives birth to true love, when we respect someone as a human, only then can we begin loving them."
Her speech was published and I am so proud of her.
And she proceeded to say this verse (yes its from the Bible but it speaks to all...on next post sorry wouldn't let me paste):
Some of my most heart breaking, wrenching, happy moments were experienced there. Talking to those strong women, who have been through so much suffering, honestly it was bitter sweet, as there is no other way to describe it.
I was telling Shruthi this and I thought I would share with everyone.
There was one woman there, who was an amazing young lady, who had been constantly abused by her husband, kicked out of the house by him, his parents would just sit and watch this and at one point he almost took a gun to her.
She is now the spokesperson for the clinic.
One of her speeches has stuck in my mind ever since and I would like to share...
And it went something like this.
"When you raise your hand on someone, or even degrade them emotionally or in any way, you are asserting your superiority and labeling them as inferior. You basically treat them like 'an animal' because you are saying, you have no rights, as I am taking them away from you and telling you that: I set out what is right for you.
In that moment I realized, that I am human and so is everyone else, and at the very least I deserve to be treated like one, how can someone be so inhumane and then claim to love me the next second? Only humanity gives birth to true love, when we respect someone as a human, only then can we begin loving them."
Her speech was published and I am so proud of her.
And she proceeded to say this verse (yes its from the Bible but it speaks to all...on next post sorry wouldn't let me paste):
Kumkum Bhagya
Hollywood
Anupamaa
