Ritika Ruminates

Self-respect. Self-love. Self-care. Self-worth. And many others. Sometimes we humans forget about ourselves while in the company of other humans. Sometimes, we forget to respect ourselves, love ourselves, care for ourselves, and we forget our worth, under-estimate ourselves and whatnot. Many a time, for the sake of saving relationships or for even our social image, we lose our self-respect. We let others treat us as they want. In the process of saving relationships, we end up losing our respect. We need to remember that people who truly love us will not make us choose between love and respect. They will respect us for the person we are and love us at the same time. By having self-respect, I don't mean you need to be egoist about yourself, but just respect yourself for the person you are.  We must learn to respect ourselves as others can't respect us if we cannot respect ourselves. We need to be selfish enough to have our self-respect as it is over everything, even love. R...

Recently I had watched the Bollywood film Article 15  which is based on caste discrimination. The one dialogue in the film really makes sense- " why are we following thousand years old practice till now?  (the dialogue is similar to these, I don't remember the dialogue exactly). Its 2020 and we still follow the caste system in India. I think whats the even need of it. The only thing it caused is even more discrimination and nothing else. Before watching the film, I thought the caste only affected people in government jobs and in marriages. That the untouchability is over now. But I was wrong. In some areas, it still has made the life of people from 'lower castes' a living hell. I feel whats the even need of such stupid practice? Heck, we even have chapter(s) about casteism in our history textbooks. Why?! Its 2020 and we still follow casteism in India. Casteism in itself is also a restriction and a threat to freedom of many. Casteism affects the professional, per...

The crime against women has been ever increasing. Every new day comes with various kinds of crime against women- ranging from as small as eve-teasing (which is uncomfortable too) to as big as acid attacks, rapes, and murders. There has not been a stop to these rapes since it has started. Every day, many girls and women have become victims of these crimes. The monsters and evils in the body of humans have been the reason for these crimes. Their lust has become more important to them than the moral human values. These evils have been satisfying their lust by committing these crimes against women. It is ironic that in the world where women are worshipped as goddesses, the crimes are committed against women. The reason for the crimes committed against women is many. The main reason is the lusty behaviour of these monsters. Every woman looks like a sex object to these monsters. They satisfy their lust through these heinous acts. The second reason is that they don’t understand what ...

Being stubborn is important. Well, by being stubborn, I mean to say about being stubborn for your dreams and even relationships. And not about being stubborn to buy any toy, chocolate or any kind of thing you like or being attracted to in a shop or so😅. One needs to be stubborn about our dreams and even our relationship. Whatever your dream is, you need to be stubborn enough to keep pursuing it and not to give up on it despite the struggle and failed attempts. It is ok to take a break but do not give up on your area. One needs to stand up for their dream. There would be many people who would make fun of your dream, would say that you will not be able to achieve your dream, would demotivate you, and whatnot. They would try to pull you down so that you cannot reach your dream or try to brainwash you and make you change your dreams. If you can not be stubborn enough for your dreams and stand up for your dreams, no one else will be able to stand up for you or your dreams. You will need t...

Here is my 1st try at a poem. This poem is based on acid attacks and dedicated to all the acid attack survivors out there. What a shocking moment it was for her, when a stranger proposed her for marriage, though she didn't feel anything for him, she politely rejected his proposal, but what she did'nt know was a storm that was awaiting her, the very next day, he threw acid on her face, spoiling her entire face, and later to be found laying at a hospital bed after hours of surgery, thoughts started looding her mind, 'was this his love?', 'was his ego more important than love?', and so does the other thoughts occupied her mind, months and years went by struggling, struggling through physical pains, through the comments of society and the fake sympathy, depression chased her, negativity chased her, but with support of family and friends, she slowly learned to accept and love the new lo...

Life. Is it the duration of time that we survive? Or we live? Everyone has their own opinion about life as per their own experiences. According to me, life is the duration of time we actually live along with the tests of fate or destiny. We can choose to live or direct life the way we want to. Surely, life will not go always go by our plans because of fate or destiny. Life is a roller coaster. We rise, we fall and we rise again. Life will not always be full of happiness or full of sadness. Just like a roller coaster, ups and downs are necessary to make life thrilling. Who would want the same things or emotions throughout the time that they survive and make their survival monotonous? Life is like the line shown on the monitors which shows our heartbeat (I don't know what exactly it is called😅). If the line goes up and down, we are alive. If the line becomes straight, we are dead. So even in the duration of time that we survive, both positive things/ feelings (happiness, success, e...