The privilege that we are unaware of!

During this downtime, when the whole world is staying indoors with their fingers crossed, do you know who are the ones that are actually privileged? When everyone around is bragging about spending fruitful time with the family during this quarantine, ever thought about the ones who had been running away from their own blood fearing abuse and torture? And now, when everything is locked down and when they are asked to stay indoors, how insecure would they be feeling? More than anyone else, how badly would they be wanting this pandemic to end so that they can mark themselves safe, not from the pandemic but from the hands of their domestic predators.

I remember reading a post long time back about a girl who opted to stay in a hostel just because she wasn't finding it safe to stay with her father as she found a camera inside the toilet in her own house. I don't think she did ever disclose it to her mom because she never wanted her mom to have a breakdown. Instead, she chose to move out of her house and to stay in hostels, never willing to go back. And now...when most of us have made ourselves safe in our own houses, I wonder what would have happened to her? What  would be happening to many like her? I don't know who she was as it was an anonymous post but i really wish not just her, but all those who are living through the same phase, that they are safe if they had managed to reach home.

We all are really lucky if we hadn't had anything like this in our life. Imagine if we had to fear to get back to our own house...to fear that very place which is supposed to be our shelter! The fear here is immortal where the cries of all the women and men who had hid the bruises from others which their spouses had gifted them, all those kids who kept running away from that uncle/ neighbour/ brother/dad/ mom, all those wives who have been forced in the bed to flatten the horny curves and de-stress their husband's work pressure. This is to all of them. 

I am afraid how you all are coping up with this. But let me tell you...you all are strong. Powerful enough to fight back humans! You don't have to suffer just because you can't leave the house. The worst thing that a pandemic can do to you is to take your life but this domestic violence and marital rapes can do worse. They are capable enough to leave you with wounds that will never heal till you die. If you are being tortured, you don't have to leave; let the accused leave because you are not the culprit. The boiling poison is in them and not you. Call out for help. This downtime isn't the time for the predators to play their dirty game on you and your body.