Unforgettable Gift

The Gift

You have taken the east from me;
You have taken the west from me;
You have taken what is before me and what is behind me;
You have taken the moon, you have taken the sun from me;
You have taken my life, you took my soul from me;
And my fear is great that you have taken God from me!

SPEAK YOUR MIND- Series Two

Change of Season

I never felt so young before, there was so much life to see

behind each and every door.

From being an aimless, confused engineer & MBA, I have unknowingly developed to being a competitive and career-oriented woman.I never know how this gradual shift in my mind came into existence but nonetheless its for the better.

Despite the good fact of having a drive to reach to the top, I somewhere keep questioning myself- is this what i really want ? is this whom I really want to be ? will i live up to my families expectations ? Am I just running a race wherein I eventually have to go back to basic again??

I guess most of the women of my genre are somewhere entangled in this thought of how to balance a great professional & great perosnal life. Is balancing the two really possible, I am still finding that out.
Coming to the point of whether i am doing what i really want to do, I am or people like me are still finding that out. Often i remember my desire to be a singer one day or a cooking expert on a TV show.

On my recent visits to some lands, i figured out there is so much more than career in life, life is not work, but somewhere its important to appreciate variuos other aspects of life-cooking, playing with kids, singing, painting, appreciating beauty, psychic readings. Not that I am becoming domesticated but feel my need pattern is changing, a need to be content and not forever running an endless marathon to achieve the end result only without even appreciating the components which finally make the end - the final result.

So may be

I think I finally understand
There is so much more I can be
I keep looking back at someone else
ME

SPEAK YOUR MIND- Series One

This article is dedicated to all my pals who have some what become BLOCK #$%^ HEADED & HEARTED.

When I was young i always thought that money is a just a mean to meet our daily needs in life.As I grew up, i saw my parents working hard to make a good living, taking care of me and my brother and not forget their dream of making a big house and few cars.
In this entire process of working hard their desginationsand incomes both improved majorly but one thing they never seemed to look down upon any person due their income group or profession.Interesingly they visited certain foreign lands during the early eighties which i think was quite remarkable for a couple like them to visit considering the fact that both belonged to villages (till the time they moved to a city).
I am stil proud of the fact desipte being "then foreign returned" they were culturally the same and treated all as equal.
IS IT THEY WERE AND ARE STILL VALUING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF BEING AN UTTERLY FAIR HUMAN BEING WITHOUT BEING BLOCKED BY MONEY/SUCCESS?

On the contrary when i see many of my generation indiviuals there is a certain air about most of the people about themselves,we have practically forgottenwhat is to be down to earth. Most of these people travel to foreign lands, make decent money in the start of their career, investing in properties but seems it gets the better of them and nothing is enough.
Interesingly its not intentional it is just that air of success which makes them so in-genuine fake, repulsive and walking in some one else's shoes. I really wonder does money & success changes an indiviual so much as a human being in the core.In my course of interaction with so many people, i have hardly met a soul of my generation who is not flying in the air, money oriented, gluttony and other aspects which fall in the same league.I graduated some few years back, surprisingly most of the indiviuals changed phenomenally from being a good human being tosome wierd, repulsive, over the hill top kind of people.

IS IT ALL THE FREQUENT TRAVELS, HIGH MONEY INFLOW, INCREASING PARITY POWER LEADING TO SENSE OF SUPERIORITY/PRIDE AND INGENUINITY. How sad is that !!

Hmmmm.... A noble soul's saying- Sometimes we keep improving our social persona ( the mask) when our inner mind and soul reach a stage of labelled as rot.
" Block Headed " Answer-No wonder this is just the start of our journey and we have many more lessons to learn in life, maybe something will get us back to basics at some point in life. Atleast someday !

One Art

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) or is a disaster.


This poetry is by Elizabeth Bishop. Quite true, this is actually an art, and God just bestows some with this One Art of Losing everytime.