Thoughts and Quotes
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Staying Happy in the Big Bad World
For a long time now, I have been debating in my mind whether I am pessimist or an optimist. I read only positive books. Given a choice, I only watch movies about love and joy (For my husbands record, I hate action movies). My blogs are, on the most part, positive and focus on the little things in life. Given all this, one could easily say that I am an Optimist. But yet, when it comes to real life, I keep missing heart beats on the slightest of things. When children arrive two minutes late, I have already visualized a bus accident. When I do not receive a message/call from…
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The Journey is Mine, cause the Destination is Mine to Achieve
When we lose a loved one to death, misunderstanding or simply time, we tend to question not only fate and God but also every relationship that we still hold. If we have lost once, what is the guarantee that we will not lose another loved one again? How do we continue to love knowing very well that all loved ones will part from us one day or the other? I found a simple explanation to this in a short four hour road drive, last week. When I started the drive, I was focused on the road, navigation directions and the miles ticking by. No sooner had I settled in the…
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Ensuring Good Health of the Family is no Child’s Play
I am one of those proud mothers who takes health of the family a little too seriously. You will often spot me in between shopping aisles scanning ingredients and nutritional value of products. I make it a point to tell my children how much carbohydrates and proteins (or lack of them) they have consumed in each day. I never believe what a marketer says. I always read, research and make up my own mind as to what is best for my family. I miss late night events because I ensure my children get adequate sleep and I canwake up in the morning to pack fresh tiffin and snacks for their…
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Swachh Jeevan – 5 Rules of Handling Shit in Life
For months now, I have been paying attention to how shit works. (One tends to do that, when one receives a lot of it in a short span of time) After careful observation and analysis. I have created these Rules/Reminders to better manage the shit coming my way. Rule No 1 – All normal, healthy humans carry shit in their gut most part of the day and night. So if you are feeling full of shit, you have reason to celebrate! After all, it is a sign that your are perfectly healthy. Rule No 2 – Shit has to come out sooner or later – No one can store shit…
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It took me 20 years to cross 100KMs
I have been driving for more than 20 years but I have never driven more than 100 KMs in a day, ever before. Yeah! It takes time to sink in. TWENTY Years!!! Wow! Not even 100 KMs! OMG! I never crossed this number before because I simply didn’t care about this number before. My reason for driving was independence and mobility. I never cared about the digits on the speedometer or the odometer (yes! I had to google it to know what it is called!). I also have a loving, protective, caring and dominating husband who never let me sit behind the driving wheel whenever he was along. Honestly, I never…
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Small Thinking
We take pride in calling 4 walls our home, when we have the whole universe as our abode We identify ourselves with our body, when the entire ecosystem is a part of us We constantly carve boundaries differentiating between them and us, thinking we are growing bigger with each smaller piece we carve out for ourselves
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One box, One Cupboard, One Step, One Day at a Time
When Amma passed away, a few months ago, there was a sense of overwhelm in the whole family. The feeling was justified because we had not only lost a loved one, but we had also lost someone who had managed the entire house and a lot of aspects of our individual lives. Deep within, we all wondered how we would move on in life without her. For the first few weeks, each cupboard in the kitchen spooked me. There were so many boxes and bags that contained stuff I couldn’t recognize. I tried to decrypt the contents through touch, smell, taste and even neighbors advice but I wasn’t 100% successful.…
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Power of a Guru
I took out 3 hours on a working day to stand in the sun, next to a busy traffic junction, covered in cardboard. I am sure you must be wondering why a sane, educated, professional like me, would do something like this? I did it because I have faith in a single person and his message to save the rivers of our land. Along with a couple thousand more people, I believed in the importance of the cause and the urgency to stand behind it. But even more important than the cause, it is my faith in my Guru that called me to stand up for the cause. I…
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We love knowing we will leave
Its been more than a month since we lost a loved one. They say time is the best healer. I think more than time itself, it was the family that came together to stand by us, who saved us from getting lost in this time. The last few of this family, closest of all, left a few days back to get back to their own lives, leaving us officially on our own. Few days back, I took the long airport ride to see them off on their journey to the other side of the planet. The fact that it would be months before we meet again, kept rubbing in, throughout the journey.…
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Opportunities
The only thing death takes away is the opportunity to add value by those left alive. If you want to add value to someone’s life, do it today, before death meets either of you.