IMaadhyaam
I am Back with “IMaadhyaam (IMpact Maadhyaam)". Our initiatives were formulated with an intention to work with and uplift all those who have lost belief, trust and purpose, through ‘The Silent Architects of the Society – Women’, the Maadhyaam whose IMpact is profound in everyone’s life but she is always left behind.”
I turned up the volume loud. The neighbors assumed my love for Rajnikanth intro song but no! That was the time I did not increase volume for the superstar , it was to hide my weeping sound. That was a phase where I wandered with red swollen eyes, broken heart, just wearing the mask of a smile.
Are you curious to know what happened?
Where should I start?
The grandparents who wanted me abandoned since I was a girl baby? Oh, that is too old news, the tough childhood part. This happened few years back….
I am Mother of two kids, dealing with post-partum recovery and health complications. My mother who was planning to support my child birth had brain hemorrhage and was just out of ICU. The job I love, I had to re-think if I would be able to continue work and manage family and as icing on a cake, the judgement thrown by various people around. Haters do search for your vulnerable side. The more vulnerable you are, the best prey you become. And all of us go through a weak time in life, so did I.
Those were the days I felt extremely vulnerable and sad, life was complicated and challenging. The lady who brings flowers to my mother’s house on evenings, I knew her for more than 3 decades. She has raised four kids by herself, managing to put up with an alcoholic husband. I have heard from mom about her difficult life. The previous week she underwent an uterus removal operation and I was shocked to see her back to work within a week. “Hmm, what will change if I sit at home crying in pain madam? I need to feel some meaning for life within”, she casually answered my mom and made a cloth-bun from her saree-pallu and carried the flower basket on her head.
That was a slap to the ‘sad me’. Who doesn’t have a scar my friend?
I told myself that day: YOU HAVE A CHOICE.
- Cry, become weaker and fall into the pit of worry this society would dig for you OR You have a choice to kick these problems, to create your own kingdom, to ignore the negative energy around.
- Learn everyday. Explore everything your heart wants to.
- You don’t have to prove anyone that you are great. You have to feel it “within” and that would do the magic.
And when you create the magic, write a book to spread the magic around.
The talkative you can be a great speaker.
Channelize yourself into the best version and give hope to people with similar scars.
Fast-forwarding few years, when I felt “within” as a happy and successful working mother, I wrote a book “GET READY LADY”, for women rejoining work after career break. More than the sales and amazon reviews, what makes me happy is when I hear stories of women rediscovering themselves and when my book plays the role of what the flower-selling lady did to me.
Even today, I increase volume for Rajnikanth songs, now not for crying but to dance for Chumma Kizhi!
(Namradha Kamal has been inspiring many with her blog and book…her smile, positivity and the urge to live every moment to the fullest will click instantly with you. IMaadhyaam team thanks her to contribute to the blog that would have been incomplete without her story and wishes her very success in her endeavors.
“Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths”.
So, the IMaadhyaam team aim is to reach this message to all women there that:
You have a choice.
Either to dwell in despair or get inspired and be the heroine of your story.)