Life

Who really is your valentine?  The person you had a crush on? Someone you fell in love with? Your Soul mate? Romantic Life partner? Somebody about whom you cannot stop thinking and cannot have enough of being with? Probably that person who makes you feel complete? The one whom you can reach out to with your silliest fears and tears? The one who will lend you a shoulder when you agonize over a trivial fight with your best friend or your mother? The one who will laugh at you when you trip, instead of picking you up!? The one who will agonize with you when your crush sees someone else, and then be downright angry that you are sad and weepy and will not hesitate telling you that? The one you can completely hate at a moment and melt in love just the next minute!                                                     Or...

The good old days.There were the times in school where imagination of life and the events around us was more real than the real life we were reading. The times when Nancy Drew was our heroine and Frank from Hardy boys appeared to be the best boyfriend one could ever have. Add in a little bit of mystery during vacations, and if you were 5 in a group, even though borrowed, it meant, you called yourself "The famous Five". Summer vacations meant looking for adventures just like Malory towers and keeping secrets like the secret seven. Let us call this the case of the "Run away Maid"!! This word makes me think of a 100 perspectives on maids right now, but let me try to stick to what really happened. It was holiday time and my best friend Roshni and I were strolling around the peaceful bylanes of our neighborhood just "wandering aimlessly" as my math teacher would have put it. A kalakhatta candy and an animated discussion on the insufficient holid...

Penning my experience and the emotions of the contrasts in life that we live with in todays world. At a five star hotel, I loved the attention to detail, the smiles, the ultra courteous staff. The location and the venue was mesmerizing. Self contained it had just about everything that one could ask for,  Including two different types of commodes within the same bathroom!! Backwaters, a spa, a lounge bar, a gym and so much much more.. that staying overnight seemed so insufficient and almost like I was doing injustice to the facilities that were available there! The food, Ahem, so rich and so much in variety that I was unable to taste all the dishes on the buffet!! A couple of weeks later  Christmas vacations meant fun and cheer. We drove down to a lovely place called pugmarkswayanad that offered a rare kind of accommodation and some homely food. The semi resort-home stay seemed ideal for the eight urchins that we were!;p . P.S  It was d...

    We are brought up in the rut of "consequential living" or fearful living as I would like to call it.. Perhap s it is o nly natural that "fear" is what drives every activity of our life. Most of us do stuff - For example- take up a job for the fear of not having anything else to do, not having enough money, to meet expectations of society/parental pressure etc etc  How many times do we get to see someone who, has the courage to follow their dream? Even if you do, in all probability they have a "strong financial backing already"! Look at some of these situations: You are sick, unable to focus on work , But your mind is thinking  - Cannot take off, what if my boss thinks I am faking it, I am on leave next week as well. At a mall, mother yelling at her unruly son, Stop that Sharath. Sharath - What if I don’t stop amma? Amma -  I will not buy you that chocolate or the toy you have been wanting. Father - Look at th...

Speaking to myself, while rummaging my waaaadrobe , I felt that I needed some really good clothes to  wear to office, on my walk, when I stepped out within the locality, when I went out with my family, when I stepped out to the grocery store, when I travelled, when I went jogging, when I slept and blah blah blah blah…. That’s when the saga started. If I did buy new clothes, I would need shoes too! It didn’t matter that I could no longer remember the number of shoes I owned !  I looked confused as I mumbled to myself, making a mental list of what I thought I needed. My little one looked at my confusion and asked me, what I was thinking? I told him Amma wants to buy new clothes. He looked at me plainly and asked, why amma, you don’t have clothes is it? That triggered my thoughts..  I did have enough clothes, but I felt now that they weren't good enough! ( few were either tight or loose or some were out of fashion) D...

I was brought up with my fair share of fairy tales. I believed in the angel from Cinderella and in prince charming from Sleeping Beauty, the dwarfs from snow white and more. I considered angels to be true and they gave me hope and made my childhood simple, cheerful and pleasant. Somehow as we grow up, the sense of reality is so deeply ingrained in us, that we forget that there could be angels watching over us. We miss the simple pleasures of life in the complaints that we have rather than seeing the beauty around us. It was a Friday morning. My mind was relaxed as it did feel like"Thank God It is Friday". The morning overdose of work was complete, my playful sons aged 4 and 6 were ready and good to go to the bus stand to board the school van. 7.30 am : Off went the factory siren, that indicated it was time for the school van. We set out after the loud and happy byes to "ajji" and "thatha". The pick up point for the bus is ab...

Life: The Law Of Attraction : There is truth in the "Law Of Attraction" !!  Oh well, I am not really talking about the ones that make your hormones go awr...