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Live today to die some other day

This is another beautiful story from my dad’s bag of stories which he always carries with him to make me understand the importance of certain basic things in life. He narrated this to me when I was a teenager and was tensed about petty things in life however, I can relate to this even more after growing up. I am sure all of us would be able to relate and learn the way of living life from it. Once a man named Rakesh had borrowed certain amount of money from his neighbor Jagdish which he had promised to return it in a month. He borrowed money to start his business but unfortunately material he had procured wasn’t sold until then hence he was not able to arrange for the funds to pay back Jagdish on time. In the middle of that cold December night, Rakesh was sweating with anxiety and stress that he won’t be able to return Jagdish’s money the next morning. He was walking in the hallway the entire night thinking what would he tell Jadish, what would be Jagdish’s reaction, would he understa...
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Dee won the battle, and it was time to win the war

 Getting to know a transgender was a really new experience for him because the impression he had in his head until knowing her was very different.  When he got to know her through her thick and thins he realized that it’s not all jolly and rosy for LGBT community to stand up and accept themselves as well as make the world accept the LGBT community with open arms. Legally transgenders have attained all the rights but socially and practically they were still frowned upon which wasn’t a pleasant sight. Dee told that acceptance even by her family initially was such a tough task.  Her parents used to feel ashamed of her and her brother used to feel embarrassed about her. They had confined her for all her school life, she was ill-treated and wasn’t given her independence. Her family used to publicly disown and boycott her. When Dee was growing up this treatment happened for a while. After few sessions and interaction with counselors, her parents realized what big of a blunder they were doing to their kid and that it’s okay to be transgender. God created them the way they are and it is not their fault, rather than boycotting and mocking, her family should respect and support Dee. Dee wasn’t accepted by society and rather than being supportive to that her parents were also not in favor of this.  On realizing and talking to Dee as well as her consolers her family started to support her. They took baby steps to make her independent strong and bold enough to face the world because all that it needs to win a battle is the self-confidence that the battle could be won. Dee accepted the way God created her when she was a child, she had won the battle with herself already. Slowly and gradually she won the battle with her family too, so now she was ready to face all the battles with the world. This talk with my close friend taught me a lesson, that everyone must be treated equally and all that one needs is to win the battle with himself or herself, the world is not enough!

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