learning and growing

 1)People are confused. Knowledge and confidence is everything.  2) Money is very important.  3) Knowing how to cook is important. Surviving on, no matter what you cook, is more important. 4) Helping people and showing kindness, helps you with a good sleep at night. 5) People will judge you even when you are doing  your best. Stop thinking about them. 6) Living alone and independently takes a lot of bravery and courage. It's not for everyone. Stepping outside the threshold of your comfort zone ,comes at a price and rewards you with wisdom and strength. 7) Environmental changes are real. It's high time we pay attention to it. 8) Life is uncertain. Lets not waste too much time thinking about how and where did we go wrong. Let's face it. Accept it. 9) Stop comparing your first chapter with someone's tenth chapter. You and them did not have the same upbringing. You and them did not have the same resources. Be happy with what you are doing and achieving. Be proud and cont...

One of my colleagues wants me to write a blog on my affairs/love life. There are surely many more interesting things under the sun to write about. But why shy away from one such topic. If you ask me, I won't term any of the relationships that I ever had as an affair. The moment we say affair, I believe we give it a not so likeable face. I would say that I have had the opportunity to get closely connected to many people, intellectually over time. It had always been a matter of mind and never a matter of the heart. Some were short term, some were long term, some stretched over a very,very short period. I do not regret any of it. It has been a way of God, I believe, to help me understand the different facets of love. The different ways it can come to you. The different ways you can feel it. Society tends to shape and define love in many ways. They try to define it on the basis of gender,age,culture,colour,caste,religion,language, marriage,to name a few. The moment we try to succumb ou...