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My Thoughts: While I was driving back…..
My Thoughts: While I was driving back….. Hats off to all mothers of today! and Double Hats off to our mothers who managed much more than we will ever be able to!! kota-pavani: I was driving back today from Sia’s Daycare and I was feeling very hollow. It was the time when I used to be busy with my office calls a year and half ago. I quit my job due to unavoidable reasons and off course also to take care of my daughter. I do take pride in my decision to quit my job to…
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Blinded by a Perfect Vision
Sometimes we know exactly where we are headed, what we need to do and precisely why something is the way it is. This is when we are suffering from a syndrome, I call – Blinded by a Perfect Vision. We think we know everything, and in the process end up ignoring minor yet important details. The confidence that we are right, stops us from seeking suggestions and responding positively to feedback. It is like carrying a glass which is already full, hence there is no space to receive more. I once had a manager who thought he had all the answers. Initially I was impressed, more like awed by his confidence. I…
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When Time Stops!
We all come across moments in life which are so innocent, beautiful and extraordinarily simple. These are moments when the constant rush of life seems to just halt, when there are no regrets about the past and no worries about the future. All that matters is that moment and we wish that moment would last forever. Some amazing facts about such moments – You find them in the most unexpected corners and sometimes in company where you would least suspect to find them. These moments are completely unplanned. They can never be recorded, nor they can be recreated. If you try and recreate them, the original moment also ends up…
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Let the storm pass!
There are a lot of moments in life, when we are at a loss of what to do next. When all roads seem right and all roads seems wrong; when everyone is right from their own perspective, but still the perspectives dont match. Some of us, like me, are control freaks. We like everything as per our way, under our control. Imagine then, our desperation when we don’t know which way to go; which road to take. Opinions, facts, knowledge, expectations all rise around us like a tornado simply out of control. The harder we try to find the answer, the larger the tornado becomes, as if deriving energy from our very…
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Pleasure of Learning
As we live through each day, we save memories in our mind; Memories of good times and bad times, perceptions about people, mistakes we made, and joy we shared. There are many more kinds of memories that keep getting added to our mind each day. As we grow old, these memories slowly transition into heavy trunk loads of baggage that tend to keep holding us back whenever we want to move forward. Whenever we see our old neighbor on the street, we are reminded of how snobbish he is, so we never talk to him. We don’t like to take vacations as we cannot adjust to the newness of a place, the…
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Good Morning!
When we wake up each morning, what is the first thought that comes to mind? Do we spread our wings and say “Mmmmm, Wow, another day!!” or do we push ourselves out of bed and think “Oh! Yet another day”. What determines how we wake up each morning? Is it based on how well we slept in the night? Is it based on how was the day yesterday, and the day before that? Some might say that each morning is based on the culmination of not one or two days worth of past life but an aggregate of our life so far. How we have lived it and what we…
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Wind Beneath my Wings –
One hot summer night, as I was rolling around in bed, waiting for the electricity to come back, I could hear the wind outside my window. Sometimes in between, it would even enter the room through the open windows, ruffle the curtains, touch upon my feet and retreat. The small touch left me wanting for more of it, inside the hot, suffocating room. I was tired and irritated after a long day and just wanted a little more breeze so I could get some sleep. As I was wishing for more, I started thinking about how the wind had entered my room in the first place? I live in a…
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Ask the question!
I learnt this yesterday from my 7 year old daughter. My other blog yesterday will explain more. As adults, we feel that we need to have answers to everything. If we don’t have an answer, we are not intelligent enough. More so, we believe that every answer that we have found, is right; because it has been proven over centuries and hence has to be right. As kids, we were asked this question so many times – “What do you want to become when you grow big?”. I, in my innocence and under the burden to provide an answer, and of course not knowing how impossible it was, wanted to become…
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What do I become when I grow big?
Toyna (7 years): Mama, it is so difficult to decide what do I become when I grow big. Mama: Why? Toyna: Because there are so many things I can become. Mama (thinking): I am so proud, she is asking this question, rather than just jumping on the most glamorous band wagon. Mama: You don’t need to decide what you want to become. You try and find what you enjoy doing most and just practice it more and more.
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Good Enough?
We often ask this question about things around us. Is this apple good enough to eat? Is this project good enough to take? Is this post good enough to read? Not only about things, we also ask this question about ourselves. Am I a good enough wife, lover, mother, sister, daughter, employee, manager, cook, listener, speaker, thinker, doer, … The list of good enough questions is endless. Do we ever get answers to these? Is there ever one answer? How do we measure goodness and how do we determine what is good enough. Do we determine good enough from a point of view of ourselves or from a point of…
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