"That is the rule"- an admonition
Last night I watched a sad story called Water. It was a story about what happens to widows in India around 1938.
The story is about a little girl, around 9, whose husband dies. She is forced to live in a widows home. There she meets many women and she befriends three of them.
First one, Kalyane, was beautiful and she was lent out to men for sex in order for the ashram to survive. The second one was very smart and strong and she always questioned the rules of the place and her religion. The last lady, a very old lady, had spent her whole life in denial remembering her marriage at seven and the sweet candy she ate that day and how she is no longer allowed to eat the candy.
I have been harping on blindly accepting rules the last few posts. It seems to me that this movie shows the need to challenge rules instead of blindly following them. Oddly, the movie ends with the statement that about 1.3 million Indian women live in these types of ashrams today.
Today's question is:
"Are some of the rules you are following destructive?"
Last night I watched a sad story called Water. It was a story about what happens to widows in India around 1938.
The story is about a little girl, around 9, whose husband dies. She is forced to live in a widows home. There she meets many women and she befriends three of them.
First one, Kalyane, was beautiful and she was lent out to men for sex in order for the ashram to survive. The second one was very smart and strong and she always questioned the rules of the place and her religion. The last lady, a very old lady, had spent her whole life in denial remembering her marriage at seven and the sweet candy she ate that day and how she is no longer allowed to eat the candy.
I have been harping on blindly accepting rules the last few posts. It seems to me that this movie shows the need to challenge rules instead of blindly following them. Oddly, the movie ends with the statement that about 1.3 million Indian women live in these types of ashrams today.
Today's question is:
"Are some of the rules you are following destructive?"
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