When Women’s Day Falls on a Sunday
Annual Goddess Upgrade- Sunday Edition Tomorrow is International Woman’s Day (IWD), the one day in 365 when women across the globe are officially promoted to the rank of goddesses. There will be phones pinging right from midnight with IWD messages and by the time she wakes up, she would have received 50 individual & group Whatsapp messages- flowers, breakfast trays, serene mountain houses, motivational messages, GIFs, quotations in glitter fonts. Last year I even Googled what ‘A woman is like a tea bag’ means. I still have the same doubt; after all, a tea bag works only when dipped in hot water. She’ll scroll through them replying all with the folded hands emoji and sometimes copy-paste, ‘Thank you, same to you,’ while she tiptoes into rooms to check who is awake and expecting their morning tea. Yet tomorrow is a Sunday. And Sundays are supposed to be relaxed days for the family, a day traditionally devoted to rest, family, and slightly more complicated ...