Spirited Soul

What a shock! Am I Old! You’d know this when you can’t walk past a bathroom without thinking ‘I may as well pee while I’m here! Or may be let others come out loud and clear for you. Want to know how?; Simply fall down- if people around you laugh you’re not an old salad yet and there’s some zing still left in you; if people panic you’re a bummer and burning out fast. Five years ago I was whisked…

Image source: ;How to Be Humble and Confident ‘ in highermind.com Humble” is not the word how my colleagues and seniors would have described me, especially early in my career. In fact I suspect quite a few might have literally choked over their coffee when word got around what I was digging into. This was a stumping mix-up for me as much. I was nonplussed, a little puzzled perhaps but more…

Happiness as I see is a fleeting golden moment that falls on our lap unexpectedly. But one profound truth that none of us can ignore is that “every moment of it comes at a price!” Time, effort, sacrifice, pain none of them comes cheap. Strangely, despite being nasty and awful in every sense of the experience each one of these emotion make the eventual onrush of happiness a pleasant surprise and…

Image source: ; ‘Work life flexibility is now a top demand of Indian employees’ in indiatoday.in This may make you think of me as a control freak but I’d rather prefer to be looked upon as an intimidating hardliner. It isn’t that I panic when things turn messy and chaotic. It’s just that when things start to get sloppy and confusing, my first instinct is to find the control I can muster within…

Have you ever felt like your life’s been a rollercoaster; one sec you are on the top of the World, the next you’re hurtling down to dumps? Image credit: ‘-“Overwhelmed by Life? 12 reminders to help you feel better” by Courtney Carver in   bemorewithless.com For me this oppressive feeling of going up and then down began back in my Junior high school days, in my eighth grade to be…

For all the wisdom I had at the time, I always thought that money can’t buy happiness. But what I didn’t know was that being conscious about how and where you spend your money can do some good to your heart besides pepping up your happiness. Image source: ‘When money can’t buy happiness; in rd.com I distinctly remember-while in high school in playtime instead of ganging up and fooling around…

Is there anything more promising than a day full of sunshine, mirth and laughter? Yes…It’s absolutely thrilling. It’s a great feeling to watch the sunshine break through the clouds on a sunny day with all those sun-soaked vacations resulting in lots of photos! Don’t they? If there’s a sunset won’t you love to own a frame of your family basking in the rays? Frame it or set it as your desktop…

It’s one way street. You’ll tick for sure! But you being multifaceted is the very reason people will think of you as fake, crazy and more sardonically -unhinged. It’s your duality of being warm and cold when necessary that ruffles the feathers. Image source: ‘The Top 8 Things People Desperately Desire But Can’t Seem To Attain’ by Kathy Caprino in forbes.com And yet there are ways to assert that…

Image source: ‘How to Talk to Young Children About Skin Color’ by Ron Grady in readbrightly.com I am the one who believes that all people are equal. I judge them for their personalities not their skin color. Black, brown, white or yellow; it doesn’t matter. We are born all the same. And you don’t have to speak the same tongue to be friends just as long you can understand each other. Ever since…

Whenever I look back at history’s horrifying events, particularly those that happened in this part of the world, a twinge of grief overwhelms me. I get sad and sore. And I doubt myself. “Would I’ve ever tried to be on the ‘right side of whatever injustice is happening? Had I been in the midst of all the horror would I’ve bravely resisted the abuse and outrage? Were I living in the ‘Greater India’…

I suppose I’m fortunate to have only happy memories of my childhood left with me. Surrounded by a doting family and a great looking dog, unpleasant ones have over the time somehow faded away. Besides I just don’t wish to look back and relive any. Image source: ‘Senior Living: The challenge of being a new grandmother’ by Liane Faulder in nationalpost.com Today it’s easy to figure out what made…

Retirement isn’t something we talk about often. Those nearing it speak of it with apprehension; those already in it think they finally are free to live their dreams. Whatever…everyone has a soft spot for an enriched ‘pullback’ life. But dwelling over it or over thinking only makes you miss take notice of the potential for joy and fulfillment that exists in the present. Contrarily, disregard it…

Image source: ‘World Environment Day 2020’ in timesnownews.com Some of these mornings, as I wake up I sense a strange heaviness hanging around me. It’s unnatural, it’s weird -one that I can’t put into words. I’ve rested well and yet the world seems tired; the air has forgotten to feel fresh and the day loiters listlessly mocking in an unkind way. Maybe it’s just me; or is it the Earth whispering…

Has it ever occurred to you that love is not enough to make everything work all the time? Have you loved somebody where you felt you weren’t happy and yet you kept saying, “But I love you so deeply. Isn’t that enough?”When was the last time you were happy and felt accepted when around them or did you find yourself anxious, fidgeting and largely misunderstood? Image source: Valeriia Miller in…

Here’s how… It all began with what I saw in the bathroom mirror one dull summer morning. I had gently padded into the bathroom of my small apartment and casually checked my reflection in the mirror. The ‘three-ring-circus’ felt chaotic as I intuitively kept repeating the list of things to be done in the day over and over. What I saw froze me in my steps. A chill swept through me. Huh? What? I…

Image source: ‘RI Leaders React To Texas Shooting: McKee Calls For Assault Weapon Ban’ in patch.com As I dig into the past, simple sweet smell of savory snacks tiffin box from school days is the first thing that comes flooding back. It has the air of a long forgotten shaggy-dog story about days gone forever. I look back and they are still there –clear as open sky, unmissable and hankering to be…

Sometimes it happens. Everything in your daily life just goes crazy. Every little thing you try simply drifts off. You’re passed over for an important assignment. Your back aches. Your zipper breaks. Your dog keeps throwing up. You’re freaking out and wonder if your life is always taking a turn for the worse. You aren’t superstitious, but these knock outs push you to troubleshoot—“Am I just an…