Random Thoughts

  Goodbye 2023…Is it me or with the passing years I have felt that people have started disliking a year and December is like a respite to many for bringing it to an end. Maybe with growing up life is stuck in the mundane and we are all craving for big happiness while underappreciating the small little pleasures of life. In the constant run of life, we are just looking forward to hustle, achieve something or to just compare our growth with others. We are constantly running behind an imaginary time line which we have created for ourselves and every small deviation brings sadness, anxiety and felling of inferiority in one self. But I will not be talking about how the year has been. I am here to put forth what 2023 brought with itself and I would love to carry that forward to 2024. Well to begin with this year taught me how to live life happily alone…in the beginning of the year I like an amateur never understood or was deliberately in denial about the difference between being lo...

 So, at the strike of 12 midnight; 31 st December 2022 the new year i.e., 2023 started and as per usual traditions; with new hope and enthusiasm I took up a task of revamping my old self. I decided to jot down 3 resolutions I am hell bound to follow and fulfill this year. Why three, you ask….Well, first of all my track record has not been great with resolutions specially when the list is long. Secondly, I feel that 3 is my lucky number. So, I am hoping that lady luck will help me push through at least 3. Firstly, this year I aim to learn and understand self-love. It might amaze many people to think that I am unaware of such a basic concept; but to be true with oodles of  things flowing on the internet the real meaning of self-love has lost its innocence and has made it very difficult to achieve it. So, 2023, will be my year to understand it’s basic concept and not the fancy one. Also, I need to distinguish carefully when I am being kind to myself and when I am making an exc...

 Yesterday I took a cab ride and my driver started chatting up about things around us. How begging was not good for society, how the pandemic has affected his life and so on and so forth. Me being an inquisitive self was glad to learn about how various people in society think about things in general. Then the twist occurred in the story just like an Ekta Kapoor drama when he suddenly said those three deadly words “Madam Bura mat manana (ma’am don’t feel offended)”; and that moment I knew I will be furious on what he will say next, but I kept calm and asked him to proceed….he started giving me his two cents of advice about how lemon water will help me reduce weight, how I should workout and so on and so forth. I just smiled left the cab and went to work; but this thought kept creeping in my mind…it affected me so much that I felt like penning down my thoughts and adding my two cents to the vast knowledge of society. So, I was amazed that how we are so quick to judge people abo...