Adult Life
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Is chamkeeli duniya ki chaundh mein andhe hue jate hain, Apnon ko peechhe chhod kar, naye ko khojne lag jate hain, Naye aapko dekhte nahi, unki nazar bhar ke liye gote khate hain, Ant mein mayoos hokar roz ghar uljhan mein aate hain, Kaise suljhaoon ye uljhan, kya karoon inke apnane ko, Isi udhedh bun…
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क्या हुआ दोस्त जो तुमने शायरी छोड़ दी अनायास ही आज एक दोस्त की याद आ चली. दोस्ती कहने लायक कुछ बचा नहीं अब, फिर भी Facebook और Insta के लाइक्स के ज़रिये एक धागा टूटा नहीं पूरा. पता था की ज़िन्दगी ठीक चल रही है तुम्हारी ,जब पोस्ट्स आते रहते थे . अब पोस्ट्स…
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Dear Diary, What makes a marriage stick? What makes it a long-lasting relationship? I’m traveling these days for work. It’s been 2 years – two long years, after which this is my first trip out alone. I used to do this every year at least once, sometimes twice, before the pandemic. In the pandemic and…
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Continuing on my last post, I talked about what actions I took in the last year to bring a change to my life. I talked about the whats’. I didn’t talk much about the whys’. Why did I need those changes? Have you ever found your life to be picture perfect and yet empty? Like…
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Dear Diary, I am now 37 years old. I celebrated my birthday 2 days ago. As has become now an yearly thing, I reflect on the year gone by. Things I did well, things that I dropped, the person I was, the person I am. 2021 or rather the 37th year of my life was…
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If I could go back and change one thing about my life, I would take the one year drop my Dad suggested me to take after 12th. And keep trying till I got to a Tier 1 college.
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Dear Diary, सब अच्छा चल रहा है यूं तो पर मन उदास है। मेरी सोचने की बीमारी मुझे एक दिन खत्म कर देगी। मैं कितना भी चाहूँ, दिमाग वहीं पहुँच जाता है। लॉकडाउन में मैंने कई नई चीजें कीं – embroidery, painting, reading, cooking for anay इस लॉकडाउन में मैंने सोचा कि मैं अपना best…
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प्रिय डायरी , दुनिया को समझते समझते, खुद को समझते समझाते ज़िंदगी गुजर गई। अब अगर यूं चाहें की किसी को नहीं समझाना, कुछ नहीं समझना कुछ नहीं सीखना कुछ नहीं सिद्ध करना किसी को, तो एक प्रश्न चिन्ह लग जाता है – की फिर करें क्या? इस lockdown ने एक आईना सा दिखाया है…
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Dear Diary, I finished reading ‘Eat, Love, Pray’ by Elizabeth Gilbert. In these times of Netflix, Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, and gazillion more, fighting for your attention, it becomes extremely hard for a book to hold you. And if a book does, you should be convinced you’re in the hands of a very capable writer and…
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Dear Diary, After the excitement and adventure of the past few weeks/months/years, life seems to be coming back to a lull. Let’s see how long this lasts. I will be meeting my new team tomorrow for a web call. I still have about two weeks before I formally join them but it seems like I…
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1/25/21 Dear Diary, I realized I cannot follow Rampal ji. I talked to a friend who jolted me out of my reverie. She didn’t say much or didn’t debate my decision. She didn’t even know I’m planning to take naam diksha. She just casually mentioned the change it was bringing in me. Called it a…
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12/31/20 – 1/5/21 Dear Diary,I completely forgot I had decided to write every day. Quite a few things happened in the last week. I was talking to Sarika for new year wishes and I landed with an interview opportunity. If there was another way life could show me the love and support, I don’t know.…
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Hey there! I’ve been in a transition phase in my life in the last few weeks. Let’s just say the last week of 2020 and the following weeks of 2021 have been of major transition for me. Of unexpected ends and unexpected new life. I’ve been writing it all in my personal diary but I…
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Dear Diary, It’s still morning time. About 12 noon. I’ve realised I can’t do this anymore. Even if I wanted to continue, I cannot. It all seems pointless. The work I’m doing, the learning it requires. I do not want to continue it. There are small bits and pieces I like – like people I…
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Dear Diary, Yesterday my old gym instructor called me. It’s been close to 10 months since he left the physiotherapy center where we met, he still tries to contact. He left in October’2019. He called me once at about 8:00 PM sometime in Nov/Dec. I was having dinner with family. I took the call from…
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We have often heard multiple adages telling you to fall in love with yourself before you seek love from outside. No truer words have ever been spoken. And, nothing more cryptic has ever been said either. The problem with adages is they tell you this is what you need to do, but no one tells…
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Dear Anay, There will be multiple times when you’ll be facing a puzzle in life. A question, a mystery, a problem – that seems unsolvable to you. You would be wondering how do I fix this!? How do I get rid of it? How do I get over it? Often times, when you think hard,…
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Dear Diary, I was reading the book ‘Men without women’ by Harumi Murakami. The story was ‘Yesterday’. What a book! What a collection of stories. Without the cats and dogs and extreme imaginative which are typical of Murakami’s books, I’m enjoying this a whole lot better. Well, the post is not about the book or…
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“Don’t take life too seriously.” I used to take lot of stress because of conflicts with people – at work, in personal life. Now, I just do what I must do. And, not worry too much about the consequences. And, it seems to be working fine so far.
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I have fallen in and out of love many times. And yet, as much as I try to define, box, or understand Love, I fail to do so. Great men have said, umpteen times, Love is the thing that shall win over the world. Gandhi, J K Rowling, Tagore and God knows how many have…