Their Education Is Your Future.

It was early morning while she was already busy in the kitchen. The tiffin box was set. He had already left for the factory, suited up in his worker's uniform, yet the little boy in her house was still fast asleep, ignorant to the fact that he still had school to attend. She walked inside his little bedroom, to wake him up.

"Wake up Ayaan. It's high time. You've school." Riddhima informed him, caressing his head with her hands. 

"Ummm.. Just five minutes." He said and tugged himself deep inside his tattered shrug. 

"No five minutes Ayaan. Wake up now." She ordered and made him leave home to go to the local washroom.

Riddhima went back to his room, making up his bag and stuffing the needful things inside it. His pencils, books, bag, etc. everything fascinated her. That's what glistened in her eyes every time she did the chore to make up Ayaan's bag, but responsibilities had a bigger role to play in her situation. As Ayaan came back she made him get ready in haste and leave for his school bus. Another day went by, she was still stuck at the same place with the same responsibilities. Her dream remained unfulfilled. To be known, to be able to breathe, to be able to live, and to be able to learn, nothing was to be granted to her, just because she was a GIRL. 

A li'l, 10 year old, Riddhima, was a mother, a care taker and a sister or daughter to his father and his brother. Being brought up with no mother at all, she has never tasted the world outside her little cottage and that's why, since past 10 years, she only craved. She craved to learn, she craved to pick up a pencil and form a word, she craved to know, she craved to go to school, but cravings aren't suppose to be fulfilled, always. And this was one such craving, which could not be fulfilled, no matter what may happen. Her finance and her responsibilities never let her know what it felt like to be complete with all her cravings  satisfied by her effort. 

Keeping aside her will to achieve, she switched on the TV to a news channel while a plate full of tomatoes rested on her plate. A news channel popped up on her screen, showing a face of a girl who had just won the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. She wondered what it was about, but couldn't know the real reason behind why she was respected so much. She wished to know more of the girl on screen, so she sat stuck to her television screen. Looking at a pretty face, she had a constant smile on her face, she realized that she was no different from her. All she looked for was education and that's what Riddhima looked for too. 

That's when she noticed the words a girl on screen said, 

"Extremists have shown what frightens them the most: A GIRL WITH A BOOK."

Malala Yousafzai quoted her words which were embedded into the mind of Riddhima. She knew, when a girl of her age can fight her level of extremists, then even she could fight the extremists of her life and win the prize she deserved, the prize to be educated.