We women may spend our lives trying to win the love and approval of the males in our lives- our fathers in our childhood, our boyfriends during our giddy years and our husbands when we finally come down to earth and land, hopefully, on our feet. But we often, usually, inevitably, spend most of our time surrounded by women. Our fathers may have been the idols we adored and looked up to, but we spent far more time with our mothers- having our hair plaited, accompanying them to shops to pick out clothes and either reluctantly or willingly learning the rudiments of housekeeping from them. We were often bugged by their constant lecturing, but we couldnt do without them.
Later the man we fell in love with, had a crush on, was infatuated with, made our hearts soar as we floated on a cloud of dreams and had feelings we had never felt before, but we came home, we called up our girlfriends and poured out a flood of hopes, fears and doubts that reveled us completely to them. And to whom do we go when hubby forgets our birthdays or our marriage is passing through troubled waters? To a woman friend, of course
So face it girls, we need females- a number of them, all the time- in our lives. Our lives may revolve around them, but we need women to keep things revolving smoothly!
But then why do we women play games with each other? Claim- pretend- to be friends, but stick it to each other on every occasion. As is the pride of the so-calledEkta Kapoor serials... Always women conspire against each other. Perhaps it is centuries of brainwashing that told us that women are their own worst enemies, perhaps it is because we understand each other better than we understand men, perhaps it is plain competitiveness, perhaps it is just that we enjoy playing games !
Whatever the reason, our dependence on the women who surround us and to whom we turn in times of need, is laced with just a tiny soupcon of resentment. We naughtily, try to do each other down because then we can climb up ourselves. In other words, we girls constantly try to trick each other!
But this is nothing to worry about. The games we play are usually just good, clean fun and if there is an underlying pinprick-well, we can the only ones who can really understand us, right? So how does it matter if they can see through us? We can see through them, too!
