Life as I have Seen It

Author(s): Urmila S Dholakia
Publisher: Urmila S Dholakia

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=Life - As I've seen it from baby-sitting my siblings to completing houses chores,' my responsibilities were piling up on me and I would assume them naturally. . Sometimes I. wanted to play hide and seek, or play tag, or just get soaked in rain or jump from a tree like. Hanumanji - but the shackles of being the eldest daughter would not allow me to have fun.......
Luckily, I had a safe haven in my chore-filled life: school. School was my favorite time of the daybecause it was my own time. I use to feel relieved by talking freely with my friends and feel like a real child. But this innocent childhood went away very quickly, and suddenly I was a teenager.
The world was changing in front of me. | started sensing the chemistry between men and women. My mind was clouded by fantasies. What may have been 'random flirtations started seeming real. The spring of youth was wrapping me in it's whirlwind.
I had entered young adulthood. It was an exciting yet confusing phase of life. But when did my parents worry about my confused mind at this tender age? They did not even know about sexuality and sexual urges. This ignorance about sexuality was so common-place in society that it was almost hereditary. My parents did not have any formal education about sexual drives of growing youth.
The trouble is that this ignorance is still prevalent today. In the educated world, this subject has been openly discussed and addressed. From
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