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    Blue Tongue

    Toyna: Mama, do you know how we can know if someone is lying Mama: How? Toyna: If you are lying your tongue will become blue, if you are telling the truth your tongue will be pink. Mama: How do you know this? Toyna: I was joking with my friend in school and she told me you are lying. I asked her, how did she know I was lying. She told me – because your tongue is blue. Toyna: Mama, now you can know if someone is lying to you. Mama (thinking): I wish!

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    Good and Bad

    Story time yesterday – I offered to read about fairies or princesses, but had to give in and read about dinosaurs and giant tiramasus (not sure if I still have the name right).  As we learnt about how life started in water and moved to land, we read about  a number of alien looking creatures. She had a number of questions, as always, about each one of them. One question remained common for each – did he kill other animals for food, or did he eat plants and trees? I realized based on the answer to the question, she would quickly jump to the conclusion – Oh! so this dinosaur…

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    Words – written and spoken

    It’s the middle of the night, and sleep as usual is the first thing on my mind, but the last thing that seems to be happening. As I am tossing in bed, wondering how long I need to wait before my mind gives in to the needs of my body, I am woken up by the sound of my phone. Buzzz! I know that’s an SMS and I am wondering who else is as crazy as I am, to be awake at this hour.  Turns out, it is a close friend just checking on how I am doing. As we start exchanging messages, the conversations get deeper and more closer…

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    Baggage

    Started my evening looking for something I thought would be so easy to find. As I opened a drawer full of stationary items, they clinked and danced to the swoosh sound of the drawer. As they came to a rest and the dust settled down, I realized there was no way I could find the stuff that I was looking for, in that pile of clutter. I took a deep breath and decided to sort some of it. The first most important thing I found, were external hard disks (HDD – the ones we use to take backups of our computer systems). I discovered we own 4 HDD in total (not…

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    I learnt something new today

    I made some mistakes and in the process learnt something new today. While I am not proud of having committed mistakes, I am pretty excited that I have learnt something new in the process. Since I have started looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn, I am no longer scared of failing. Failure is just a way of knowing that I can do better.  I think for most of us, the fear of failing is not as big, as the fear of making a fool of ourselves in front of others. We can afford to feel bad in our own eyes, but if the world looks at us like that, we are…

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    A new Lover

    Someone has taken a real fancy towards me and I honestly am not liking it one bit. I now know how it feels, when someone loves you so much and you just don’t feel the same way back. I think it all started a couple of months back, when I was weak, vulnerable and exhausted. He found me and thought he could help. It started with brief encounters once in a blue moon and soon turned into day long monthly visits. I never read into the signs and didn’t pay much attention to where it was headed. Looking back, I can see the final straw was my blog last month.…

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    Respect

    We all want different things out of life – riches, power, satisfaction of making a positive change, health, happiness, love or something else. Underlying all these, there is primary need that all humans crave – the need to be respected. No matter how confident, how secure, how rich we might be, we still crave to be respected. Yes, at times, we might chose to give up or ignore this need for a purpose, but it definitely cannot be ignored for a long time.  While we all expect to be respected, we fail so often to respect others around us. When all of us understand this need so well, how can we fail…