Category: growing up
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I am generally the girl who asks her aai (mother) to pray for her.Well, it basically comes out of she being the nicer one, her prayers will get answered for sure, even if not sooner. So any big thing around the block, even something as lame as, going to collect the results of an exam,…
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I am thankful generally that a lot of reading has been happening lately. Even though I was caught off guard by the new schedule and my en-office-route reading did take a back seat, I found my mojo. I think happens with stuff you really want to do in life.So I have been wanting to write…
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The other day I was talking to a long distance friend. She said she feels something will happen to her unbeknownst to us. I had just reached work and was multitasking. I did not catch what she was saying. And when it dawned on me, what she had typed in the chat window, my first…
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November was always good.You had lost your voice. No drama. You just took time to find it all over again. Santa did visit. Like magic, a little early.You opened your heart in December.Always good. You sang, you danced, you wrote. A lot of people made home inside your heart. Wonderful.Along came the pests. Little, crawling,…
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What is home to you?For me it is a feeling. Of years of wandering around (of course I am not a nomad, even though I talk like one) I have felt home-like at very unrelated places. In reality or in my memory. Hence the feeling is rather difficult to describe. Lately, triggered by a discussion with…
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We stopped in front of a kirana store (run by a baniya*, people who have moved from Rajasthan to the Marathi-ness of Pune), and inquired about the Sabudana rate. Why ? Because pregnant friend who is now the mother of a 8 month old Avani, thought all the big shops (the marts and all) were…
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The whys will always be many, but the *how* is simple and only one.The journey from a closeted to a non-closeted person started more than 5 years back, with the help of someone.You know who you are!This is not a thank you. Merely a record. An act of being sentimental I am not so good…
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I absolutely love it when people share their growing up stories. Not so much as a medium for an insight into the person who they are now, but just how we all are (can be) bonded by similar stories. It is fun and reflective!I just finished reading Tina Fey’s autobiography Bossypants, which btw Ketaki gifted…
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I read Pico Iyer’s column which a friend forwarded and suddenly went into the introspective mode. The article and my findings are totally unrelated which is co-incidental.(link here – http://www.deccanchronicle.com/editorial/op-ed/joy-quiet-659)My findings filed in the report below (wow so *work-like*)* The better part of my life till now has been about existential crisis. From realizing everyone goes…
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N1 said very nonchalantly ‘I always knew I was no good with academics beyond a limit, so I dropped out of the race and did something I could really cope with’. We beamed at her proudly. It takes rare self-awareness at a younger age to arrive at such decisions. Of course her family never objected…