"Recently one of my colleague from my last company called me up and asked me how can you write articles about menstruation so openly and hare it on social sites. Don't you feel ashamed of posting it publicly where all your family and friends see it. I was totally shocked and annoyed at the same time on her foolish remark. Her question actually inflamed me from inside. I was aghast at the fact that how can she give such remark being a girl. I really have empathy for her.
I'm writing this to make her understand why I never felt ashamed of getting periods and talking about it. When I first got my periods, I was terrified and has a question in my mind, why me?? But my mother told me that the start of menstruation is a momentous event in a girl's life. Some girls greet those first drops of blood with joy and relief while others feel bewildered and scared. Getting periods is a proof of becoming a woman. So you feel happy about getting it. Her words made me feel joyous about my periods.
After getting my periods, I felt older because I had been told by my mother that that getting your periods is a sign of maturing. I was growing up. Getting my period was not actually what I thought it would be. I had to learn to deal it and I have. Looking back, one thing about getting periods that I admire is that it is a brigade from adolescence to womanhood. And it is vital to many young girls while growing up.
And I want to pass on the message to all the young girls that your periods turns you into a beautiful and mature woman. I write about menstruation because I don't want it to be a tabooed topic; instead I want it to be taken as normal as other subjects.
I hope you got your answer.
