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True Beauty – Touching Lives

As I look for a point in time to start my blog today, based on the theme True Beauty, I find myself travelling back in time to my own journey, the journey called life.

As far as I can remember I used to be looked at with a bit of sympathy for not inheriting the “good looks” that were a norm in my family with an incandescent mom and sisters for company! I’ve overheard conversations between…

I measure every Grief I meet (561) Emily Dickinson, 1830 – 1886

I measure every Grief I meet With narrow, probing, eyes – I wonder if It weighs like Mine – Or has an Easier size. I wonder if They bore it long – Or did it just begin – I could not tell the Date of Mine – It feels so old a pain – I wonder if it hurts to live – And if They have to try – And whether – could They choose…

Blue or Pink – does it matter, dear parent? 

A typical work day in my life is replete with situations where I help couples make choices and  sometimes life changing decisions. From choices of modes of delivery in one branch of my specialty, Obstetrics  to best options for treatment of recently diagnosed cancer in my other branch of Gynecology, its all in a days work for me. I love my work and…

Going Astral

This is part of a Blogathon entitled #LettersToMyEx on Women’s Web

A Prizewinning entry I’m proud to share .

  This will just be another unopened or unread mail in your inbox, I know. Anyways here goes.

It’s been almost a year since you dumped me out of the blue. And it will be almost 10 years since you first confessed your love for me and to be allowed to just love me. I…

  Why do we

Tend to judge 

Every person

Every emotion? 

Why do we 

Tend to forget 

Every good turn

Every kind deed?

Why do we 

Tend to conform

To every idea of 

Who we should be?

Why do we 

Tend to aspire to

Every rule laid down

Even a smile and frown

Why do we

Tend to mind

Every business there is

Except our own? 

Why do we 

Tend to blame

Everyone around us

But never ourselves? 

  Why do we 

Ten…

Bewildered by your actions

Bewildered by my reactions 

Blinded first, by love

Blinded then, by pain  

Bewildered by your words

Bewildered even more, by mine

Staggered by the depths 

Staggered by the heights

Bewildered by life’s name 

Bewildered by your game

Tortured by my endless thoughts

Tortured by your thoughtlessness

Bewildered I am, by destiny’s dance

Bewildered by the lack of a chance! 

In…

    A creature of habit, he said he was

Little did she know who he really was

Full of love and laughter this moment,

Full of angst and resentment the next…

He had time for everything n everyone

Loyal to  love, only she was not the One!

Too little, too late, grudged n given 

Her life turned arid dry and barren! 

It was time for him to shake her off 

No time, no reason, no place thought of..

Just a…

No time to sympathize

No time to empathize..

We need to emphasize

The need today to realize…

That…

There’s no balm like an empathetic heart

Nothing better to make the tears depart

A ton of gadgets may come, they may even hold sway,

Only a friendly hug, a gentle smile blows the blues away!

The magic of a loving touch, a look, a kiss,

Are so welcome, they’re something to miss!!

Sympathize

Puzzling is life n living 

Puzzling is love n loving 

Puzzled is an emotion, often felt

Puzzled by the cards life has dealt! 

Puzzles are usually fun for me to solve 

But some are way beyond my resolve…

Puzzled by the jigsaw pieces of life

Each day brings new one to add strife

Yet, some pieces just fall into place 

Puzzled – Yes, I am by lifes saving grace! 

Puzzled

This post is in consonance with a series that Women’s Web is doing to highlight the double burden faced by women working outside home.

I would like to focus on how I navigated this tricky issue that is part of every woman who works outside home – be it the daily domestic help or the corporate honcho.

To start with, it was a series of choices I made – Firstly to work, secondly to choose the Army…

Waking up to news that shook us,

Sorrow for a life lost amongst us

Fear of more of it around the corner

Fears hounding us – this that and the other

All brought to the fore

As never ever before

The heartbreaking sorrow of loved ones

The solidarity n support of known ones

Death, the all-time equaliser, dealt a rock

For the rest of us, a time to take stock

A time to grieve,time to introspect

A time…