It is time
for us Helderberg College 2012 graduates to wrap up on this phase of our life.
The excitement is contagious because it is the celebration of years of hard
work and dedication to education. I’m thinking about my future: will I work or
for how long I will keep the couch warm?
What do I
really want to be when I grow up?
Whenever I speak to my fellow future
graduates, most seem confused and a little scared. Some are still unsure of
what they want to be when they “grow up”. The question comes back to me, “what
do you want to be when you ‘grow up”. I want to be a homemaker. Such an
ideology could get me shot as traditional social roles do not bind women
anymore.
Do we all
have to be ‘miss independents’’?
Most young women I meet tell me how they want
to become big corporate women, demanding respect. Don’t get me wrong. I do
believe in treating females as equal to men. After all Eve came from Adams rib.
I’m all for female education in some way I strongly support the Women
Empowerment movements. I’m well aware of feminism and education of the girl
child. I accept the concept of equal opportunities and roles for both men and
women.
But, have
we forgotten that home is where the wife is, true feminism?
True
Feminism rests in the woman’s ability to bear offspring and ensure that her
children grow under her watchful eye. Marriage and the work of a homemaker or
of any woman is sacred and of divine order. I will get an education; but in the
words of my grandmother, ‘that degree doesn’t keep you warm at night’. True
Feminism is in the home. There I’m a wife and a mother, there is no greater
calling. I shall proudly walk down the graduation isle an educated homemaker.
