It seems as though my posts are beginning to display a negative trend, but negativity can't be helped. It is not to say that there can't be optimism, but more often than not, a human being is likely to want to write about whats wrong with the universe.
I was at a general store the other day, with my mother, picking up stores for the month. As I drifted off on my own, to investigate the array of purchasable items, I picked up chocolate, shampoo, conditioner, and refrained from picking up things I didn't need. Eventually, I came to another section of the store, and realized I needed sanitary napkins, which I picked up, and put in my basket; as I was walking away, a red-faced store employee walked towards me with a brown paper bag. "Please put that in this bag, Baaji;" was his plea. I proceeded to the counter with my sanitary napkins hidden in the brown paper bag, like forbidden objects.
I found myself wondering why sanitary napkins were being treated like alcohol. Its not like a woman's natural inclination to menstruate every 'X' number of days is a gargantuan secret, or against the law, or looked down upon. Yes, it may be a trivial matter, but the need to suppress, hide, deny or avoid anything that is remotely related to a sexual organ, even something as inevitable as this, seems to be just a symptom, of a general frame of mind. A frame of mind that does not believe in giving pap smears to unmarried girls, and would rather risk ovarian cancer going unnoticed.
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