Hurray! It's spring! One of nature's most breathtaking displays, the blossoming of tulips, heralds the approach of spring after a long winter. Despite the long drive and my considerable weakness from a recent bout of sickness, yesterday's spontaneous excursion to Shantipath to see the celebration of spring was well...
Life is a long journey, offering us the opportunity to learn continuously. Throughout our life journey, we keep rising and falling like the stock market, picking up life lessons along the way. Some of these lessons come from experience, some come from watching others. Year 2020 and Year 2021...
A friend sometime back remarked that I am a child who wants to try everything:) I reflected deeply on this, in my usual way. How often we forget a childlike sense of wonder, excitement about learning something new, sense of exploration, willingness to trust, love, play and discover. Easy and...
Right from birth to adulthood, along a journey called LIFE, I have been fortunate to have my mother, sister, aunt, cousins, teachers, girlfriends, boss, mentor to steer me in the right direction, to always get me back on track, and to cheer me on till the end. Most of...
She would have turned 75 today. I have been thinking about this for 3 months now. Yes, missing your mom is normal but the reason I have been really thinking hard is because I had promised her that we will have a gala celebration on her 75th. Well certainly God had...
Lately I had been working round the clock firing on all cylinders. Juggling between taking Care of my Dad who came out Covid positive, training for my very first 5k, making 300 plus bookmarks to commemorate my mom’s 75th Birth anniversary in addition to my usual work as a...
If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a sense of pride and will encourage you to do other tasks and take on the day with energy and freshness. Making a bed will reinforce the fact...
All of us want to be surrounded by good people. All of us want to have true friends. With friendship day around the corner like many subjective questions my therapist keeps throwing at me to reflect, this is one question that has been rattling inside my brain for some...
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear hardship today.” — Thich Nhat Hanh How do you remain optimistic when the world around is crumbling down? What we are experiencing is horrifying, a...
Smartphone addiction, sometimes colloquially known as “nomophobia” (fear of being without a mobile phone), is a real thing, more than often fueled by an Internet overuse. The colorful apps and myriad gaming apps are the real source of the problem rather than the smartphone itself. I am one extreme case...
