Life or something like it…
28 October 2009
Not many winters ago I was sitting wearing my tattered jeans, loose tee and old pair of sneakers on the sidewalks of PVR Saket with my bunch of friends. We guzzled cheap Nescafe coffee and gobbled warm chocolate-chip muffins.We gossiped, laughed, and we ate until we could eat no more. We were young, we were charming, and we were careless. We secretly swilled beer and puffed cigarettes. We made fun of engineers and their dull lives .If anyone would have told me then that I would end up marrying an IIT engineer, falling in love with lip glosses and worrying about dal-chawal-roti, I would have guffawed and immediately ordered 2 shots of tequila.
“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.”– George Shinn.
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Muskaan was crying the other day, so I painted her nails to appease her. Was was jumping with joy after that. :) Kids find happiness in such small things. I wonder why we fail to do so…
Not many winters ago I was sitting wearing my tattered jeans, loose tee and old pair of sneakers on the sidewalks of PVR Saket with my bunch of friends. We guzzled cheap Nescafe coffee and gobbled warm chocolate-chip muffins.We gossiped, laughed, and we ate until we could eat no more. We were young, we were charming, and we were careless. We secretly swilled beer and puffed cigarettes. We made fun of engineers and their dull lives .If anyone would have told me then that I would end up marrying an IIT engineer, falling in love with lip glosses and worrying about dal-chawal-roti, I would have guffawed and immediately ordered 2 shots of tequila.
“Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.”– George Shinn.
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Muskaan was crying the other day, so I painted her nails to appease her. Was was jumping with joy after that. :) Kids find happiness in such small things. I wonder why we fail to do so…
Hi Ma’am,
you are right,we find lots of hapiness in those careless moments…and change is the only thing constant….
Sometimes it surprises me how much I have grown and how things have changed. But it has been a great journey so far with some great ups and terrible downs. I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Yes,we fail because, we hardly live the life…we live life because it has to be lived… never try to involve in
every minute….if you live it then you understand the real taste of life… for that all we need presence of mind which is hard to attain!…. har pal main jine ke khoshish karnee chahiye….i love to live like that and i try!if we do that…then we see the change what we intended to rather meaning a mere change!
Absolutely..isliye Life main kabee kushee aur kabe gham..ke sakth jarrorath hai…uske binaa mazza he
kya hai jeene main… every risk move you take makes you feel so proud because its challenging in
its own way also sometimes it gives you thrust as other’s never even tried to do that …when you conquer it successfully it
only gives you happiness….similarly every little mistake makes you feel pain…because you while contemplating you understand….without that you could have done better!…this is how we live life…keep livin every moment of life..
you know, Kids do that…because, they never care about any damn thing aroud them…they feel like they are the true owners of their life…now this they may never say with us…but they really mean it…and it shows us so lucidly!..
you know…that’s why i think every adult should learn a thing from a child and his little life
Dangy, how sweet of you…you really like this kid somuch…i think, this is 3rd time her pics has been posted on blog:)
Be blissful!
btw, dagny…dunno, this post of yours gives me hints of composition like Ayn rand:)..yeah..kuch tho lagaa muje!
I know HG. We end up seeing so many ups and downs in life still we keep going, still we are prepared for the unknowns and still we are scared of dying.
Yes, I like Muskaan. Now that she is growing up, she is having tough time adjusting the the world around her. She ends up crying a lot these days so, I do all these random little stuff for her so that she can let her mom work peacefully. Once she has nail paints on, she gets busy in her own world. She will ask me to take her pics, then she will check out her nails in mirror, she will jump, and laugh. Win-win situation for all.
And HG, you rate me way too high…
True……..ksak