A breath of fresh air!

Just got back from an interesting weekend away from home. Went for a movie and packed several extra calories thanks to a junk food binge. Was fun eating 'unhealthy' after such a long time!

He surprised me with a trip to see the countryside up close for the very first time. It was simply breathtaking! The view, the birds, the gurgling brook, chatty ducks, walk in the huge park, the fresh smell of grass, smiling and welcoming strangers, the curious little puppy....every single interaction with nature wove a memory. What completed the experience was a visit to a restaurant named rather enchantingly. And the food was simple and delectable. Fare that is kind to the animals is food for the mind (and heart), indeed!

The place was set in this little street which had such lovely houses and walk that led into the woods. Dark, mysterious and exciting. The second part of the surprise came after we drove by the woods into a fenced area. Stepped into the twilight resplendent with the excited chattering of some unknown insects/animals. It was a bit spooky but also amazingly serene and soothing.

I'm happy to have spent the weekend enjoying the beauty all around instead of sitting home brooding! A whiff of fragrant fresh air :)

Sound of music!

Listening to some wonderful music and just got started on another great book. Books and music really have the power to change a person. There's a right kind of music for every mood.

- Happy - Something with a lot of beats and bass. Get up and shake a leg!
- Sad - Inspirational music. AR Rahman works wonders!
- Emotional - Old Hindi music, western classical
- Over an evening cup of tea - Jagjit Singh and Hariharan
- Over breakfast - Western classical, Opera, french-it-up!
- Contemplative - Instrumental
- Angry - Calm down and listen to some music meant for the Contemplative mood :)

Next post, books for different moods!

Sundrops glistening in the rain!

Today has been an interesting day so far! Maybe because of 'what' is to come this evening!

It's wonderful to wake up with a smile on your face and a song in your heart, to look forward to the experiences the bright, new, unseen day is going to bring!! So what if there's a bit of rain thrown in? A dance in the shower has always known to pep one up! I must confess, whenever I feel really down and out, I pop into the shower and scrub the negative out!

Got quite some work done, tasted some new food and got started on a new book. Saw a movie last night about the friendship between two women of different (radically opposite, in fact) religious beliefs. Feels nice to know that people are making such kind of movies.

I'm on this fitness drive these days, its something we owe our children more than anything else - good, healthy genes.

Mood: Ready to take on the world!

Everlasting love - an oxymoron?

Been very pre-occupied all day today. So many things in life for which I have no answers to. So many things to share but no one who will understand.

Its true, over a period of time, relationships start to fade and become a shadow of what they were at the peak. You take the other person for granted once the novelty wears off.

Wouldn't it be lovely, dear heart, if we had someone in our lives who would really understand and accept us for what we are?? Do we deserve to spend our lives with people who constantly criticize us and everything around while being completely blind to their faults?
If only the passion and the depth of feeling towards another remained constant or deepened? It would save the world from so much hurt.

What is it really that makes someone want to seek satisfaction outside a relationship without trying to communicate with his/her partner? Maybe its just that - 'trying'. Its just too trying for some people to communicate. But don't you owe even that much to someone whose heart dances at the sound of your voice, whose eyes smile at your sight and whose lips shudder everytime she says your name?

Are there happy endings only in Jane Austen's stories? I wish for the strength to be resilient and to be forever hopeful, smile playing on my lips, blinding the rest of the world to what's behind.

I remain an optimist. Giving up on a soulmate is giving up on oneself. Today is just one of those days where I didn't understand God's plans for me.

Its a brand new day! And year!!

Ok, so things didnt go exactly as planned yesterday. But what's most important is that I got everything on my to-do list done! Some achievement that is (If you know me, I'm sure you'd agree).

Its a bright, sunny new day and as I begin a new year of my existence on this planet, I look to the future with so many aspirations, dreams, desires and wishes. And I understand that if there's one person who can make things happen in my life, its ME. Will strive to get my rear in gear and do the things I've always talked about but never done.

There's one aspect of my self that I'd really, really like to improve - I don't want to be constantly bothered about what people think of me. I want to have the freedom to do what I want and say what I want without having to wonder what everyone else would think. I know life could have been so different if I had stopped to think for a moment without hearing (wonderfully mimicked)voices of my parents, siblings, relatives, friends and the my world in general. What I have never stopped to think is that the people I know form a negligible percentage of the world's population!

Thank God for my special friends who have stood by me with unshakeable conviction when I've done things that have shocked so many others. Yes, I have my share of regrets like everyone does. That'll make for a good next post!

Happy Birthday, Jane Doe! Go on, live life to the fullest!

Of contradictions

Human beings are so full of it. Full of contradictions amongst other things, I mean!

Why do we find it so difficult to deal with others the way we would have liked them to deal with us? Why and when is it that the sense of complete distances sets in between people? Do we stop to think about the distance within ourselves? The distance between our words and actions...

It comes so naturally for us to be micro-critical of other people but how many of us sit down with ourselves and actively think about what WE can do to make others' lives better?? Or about how we are 'actively' causing someone else misery?

I'm going to strive to do just that from today. That's going to go up on my list of 43things :)

Today, I control the steering wheel!

I want to be in a parallel universe

Life is a series of if-else constructs. Filled with experiences that could have changed the course of someone's world if only they had happened differently.



Life is a mixture of amazingly happy experiences which make you want to make everyone else happy and some unspeakable miseries that no one else can understand.



Do we have control over when to shift the gear and which direction to steer the wheel in? What is the unexplainable supernatural force that governs our lives?



If the present is a gift, please tell me what contest in hell did I win!?