My stories, My way
Success is an interesting word. Over the years, it has been defined by society as a box that you need to somehow fit yourself in and if you don’t, then it is like a milestone you haven’t met in life. For years, I believed that myth. But as I continued to learn more and went…
R is for R.E.S.P.E.CT – the song embodies what it is all about. R-E-S-P-E-C-T – Find out what it means to me That is how I define respect. It does means admiration based in a persons’ abilities but on a day to day it is about having due regard for boundaries. Every relationship has some…
Q is for quest. My husband believes that when I was first born, my cry must be saying “Why”. I have an insatiable quest for learning. It is my motivator and something that keeps me going. My quest for knowledge makes me a voracious reader. Books are a way to travel the world without leaving…
P is for peace. While I do hope for world peace, here I am talking about inner peace. It is the most important thing in my life and the yardstick that I measure my life success. When I was young, like any other ambitious and passionate person, I went after the societal defined success of…
O is for optimism – to remain hopeful in all circumstances. I am a born optimistic. As my husband says, I look for sunshine in the darkest of places. And I usually find it! While I am an optimist, I am also a realist. I don’t go bouncing off the walls on a happy pill….
N is for normal. Such a transient word! Over the years I have realised that it is a word that means different things for different people. It’s meaning also changes based in circumstances and context. If we look at the world around us, what was normal to us two years ago, has changed. Pre COVID,…
M is always magic for me. Life is magical – if we look around, it is full of wonders. Right from the birth of a child to blooming of flowers, everything is magic. As I have mentioned in my past blogs, I was lucky to grow up with my grandmother. She was a woman far…
L is for Love. There could have been no better letter on my birthday coz it is the core philosophy of my life. If I have to summarise my life, it would be live it fully, laugh heartily and love fiercely. Love is the most powerful force in the world. It has the power to…
Kindness – the second most powerful force in the world after Love! If we look closely at all the religions, scriptures and preachings objectively, they all teach to be kind. But for some reason their followers across the world choose to ignore that part of the teachings. I learnt kindness from my grandmother and my…
J will always be for joy for me! Joy is that elated feeling, the unencumbered happiness that makes all your senses go fully alive. Experiencing sheer joy is a kind of meditation. You feel alive, in touch with your being and close to your spiritual self. In one of my favourite movies, Zindagi Na Milegi…