>somebody came over today to spend some time and talk about herself. She had been wanting to do this for sometime now and today she did find the time to come over. She said she was feeling confused about herself and her relationship and did not know what was she looking for. I listened to her as she continued to talk about her doubts, her confusions, her questions, her thoughts about herself and her world. I offered some thoughts, shared snippets of my life and relationships and suggested that may be there are many ways to look at the same thing and to examine the parameters she was using to look at her relationship and herself. She talked some more, in a shy kind of way, eyes darting here and there, smiling a little, hesitating a little, feeling doubtful of how much would any one want to hear about herself, but really wishing to say more than she already had.
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Ambition and women or is it about ambitious women (men)?
>What is it about ambitious women that sends the society in a tizzy? It sounds as though ambitions of women ought to be fulfilled through their near and dear ones, like through children, through husband, father, brother, etc but never for herself? Take for example Sunanda Pushkar and the IPL row – columns and columns are being written about her and Tharoor’s relationship (how it matters to other people, i am yet to get a clue), about her ambition, her social climbing, including her plastic surgery, etc. yuck, how low can we get? But if i were to take all the things that are written about her ambition and her “social climbing”, I can see a pattern that gets established between being ambitious and being a woman, that I am sure many women have faced and are facing in their lives. I remember my corporate days when I used to be an aggressive marketing person and I was questioned
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