Made in Heaven

Who deemed what normal or perfect could be?

It is a blasphemous misconception.

How deeply rooted in the ideologies and definitions of misogyny, these very thoughts and beliefs.

chauvinism, patriarchal oppression, sexism, racism, casteism, homophobia, transphobia and I could go on about all the things flawed with the minds of the people of the world we’re so proud to call home.

At the end of the day, we as human beings are intertwined with the prolific desire to judge, stereotype, lay pretence and prejudice against everything that isn’t “deemed” to exist, but does that mean it truly doesn’t exist?

Do we really want to be the ultimate testament as mere products or employees, silent or blind followers of the rigid systems set by people who are long gone, or do we want to forge our own identities and carve them onto just ourselves so every being can have the life they truly desire?

What were we really made for?

We were made to love, create & live.

Hence, how does it matter how differently another does these things as long as it makes them truly themselves?

At the end of the day, we will all cease to exist, our existence in just photo books and memory, and slowly that too will go into an eternal void.

This cynicism is turning us into the monsters we were not designed to be.  It is making our lives corrosive, convoluted and cruel. Being handmaidens to the detriment of our society and our young, feigning ignorance and living mundane apathetic lives is not the way we were designed to be.

Again, we were made to just love, create & live.

Because after all, we really are just souls that were carefully made in heaven.

By Nandini Shah

(Inspired by the show Made in Heaven)