My Marriage (Compulsion or Custom)

I was 22 and I had completed my graduation when I got married. We were 5 sisters and I was eldest sister among them. I wanted to make my carrier in the fashion designing but I could not do so because my parents collected money, not for my career but for my wedding. I wanted to go to Poona for the course but my parents did not allow me to go there because they thought that I am a girl and I can not protect myself living all alone in the new city which they are not aware of. Eventually I got married because I was the eldest daughter of my parents and the younger sisters will also get married after me. They told me that you can do what your in-laws want but my in laws do not want to send me out of the home. This is just my compulsion to get married as I was not prepared for the marriage mentally. Sometimes I think that I should not have been born in India because here, the customs compel a girl to get married. Everybody who hears about my marriage felt very happy for me but I could not say any thing against my parents wishes because it is the custom in our society. Now I started living inside my world in my home completely cutoff out side the world. I am having a daughter and I wanted to do every thing that I can do for her. I give her the wings to fly in the sky which I could not get from my parents and my in-laws.