"My first experience with Menstruation"
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Menstruation is a natural phenomenon and happens to every girl and women around the world. Normally four day of period of time blood flowing from the vagina. We women are the creators of new life into the world, and our periods are a part of that process. And about my first experience when I got menstruation, I still remember my first day of menstruation at that time I was just hanging with my friends as usual and all of the sudden I felt uneasy but I didn’t care about that. After a while, I went to the washroom and I saw blood on my undergarment and suddenly I got scared, and many questions started to rise regarding myself : what was wrong with me, what was happening with me, is there anything wrong in my health, there are lots of query in my mind. And I decided that I would ask to my mom what that is and what is happening. After that I directly asked my mom about the problem that I was bleeding from the vagina and she said it’s menstruation and you don’t need to worry. I should relax as it is a natural phenomenon and it will be in every month. I was asked to rest and eat more, wear clean safe pads. She provided me a sanitary pad which I had seen on television but that time I didn’t about the product. After that day I felt a little dizzy and I also heard from the mom and neighbor’s aunty about pain during menstruation that some girls may suffer from this pain and some may not. After four days, bleeding completely stopped. At that time I feel so happy and free. And now here comes a problem during menstruation, I cannot go to a temple to worship god and I cannot eat Prasad. In our culture, we are brainwashed with thought that we should be ashamed about our periods, we should keep it to ourselves. As I follow Buddhism, there are not much barrier, I can go anywhere and I can cook food for my family and the choices are mine. After sometime, I learned everything about menstruation and it became habitual. Hence, it is important to break the silence on this topic, so that millions of young girls every year don’t see the period as a disability but a natural part of their lives.