A moving experience

Certain experiences in life shows me how lucky I am. I lead a normal life where I have family and friends who love me and let me live a very sheltered life. But when I look out at the world and its darker side the reality flashes. Their are so many children in our country and in this world who do not get even half the love and care that we get from our families and friends. I visited an NGO today and interacted with these small kids. The warmth, love and affection  that they showed was really touching. They recounted their experiences and their reasons for running away from home. Some said their parents did not want them, some were tortured and all of them craved love and affection. They were happy with whatever they had. 
I had a wonderful time and became a kid with them playing football, cricket and badminton. Their enthusiasm and talent amazed me. After a long time I really felt good about something I had done. Good about myself for visiting these kids. It made me think and reflect on my life and how fortunate I am to be given the opportunity to do such a lot in life without facing too many hardships.

love and more

A day dedicated to lovers everywhere. A day for chocolates, flowers, cards and candle-light dinners. Recently I heard a cute story where a 10 year old boy wanted to make Valentines day special for his crush. He took Rs.100 from his mother and bought two roses for her and took her out to have puchka and ice cream. he also made a card for her. Seriously love has no boundaries. Even a young boy finds ways of expressing his love.
 This day is not just limited to couples. It is for everyone who loves someone or the other. Be it a friend  or a relative.  If one loves themselves, they can make the day special to oneself as well. It is not said anywhere that valentines day can only be celebrated with ones partner. It can also be a close friend or a relative or a group of friends having fun together. One can gift themselves something that they really like. That way you can make yourself feel special. Treat yourself to good food of your choice, listen to some great music and do something that makes you happy. In short do something for yourself.


I for one, love doing things by myself.
I would love to spend the day doing some of my favourite things. Watching a movie, playing my favourite sports, eating lots of good food, meeting my friends and go for a long drive finally curling up with a nice book while listening to good music. A day dedicated to myself.

Room no. 42

Everyone should experience staying in a hostel atleast once in his or her life.  Not only do you get to interact with people of different natures and temperaments but you learn to deal with the eccentricities of your room mates. (if they are eccentric that is). 

The same thing happened to me when I came to Bangalore. Not knowing who or how my room mates will be made me all the more anxious. Fortunately my room mates turned out really good. They were eccentric in their own cute ways.  We all depend on each other. From waking up in the morning to preparing assignments. When we have to wake up in the morning we all take turns to look at the others bed. Does it matter that we are late and we should wake the others? Not at all. Infact it just gives us an excuse and the license to enjoy a few more minutes of precious sleep. If one does not prepare an assignment the other two automatically start feeling lazy. We crack stupid comments which we wouldnt be caught dead saying in front of other people. 

One of my roomies love sleeping. If given the chance she can sleep on for days. She has even mastered the art of sleeping with her eyes wide open. Eating is another of her favourite hobbies. Suddenly in the middle of the night she will say "I feel like having good good food". At that time I wonder where I am supposed to manufacture "good good food" for her. Then she will take the names of a few dishes, make slurping noises with her mouth and go to sleep. 

My other roomie loves talking on the phone. Either that or she will come in front of the mirror and twirl round and round and smile to herself. Oh! she does this even when she talks on the phone. Her curly hair has become curlier due to the amount of twirling. Under stress or when she is happy she is always twirling her hair. Curd and tomatoes make her day.

Even though our life is pretty much limited to a building and a room we have our instances of fun. Something which I am pretty sure we will always miss.

What is love about

 I used to think that love is about trust. Its about sharing yourself with a person and knowing that he or she will always be there to catch you. It is about being totally equal in a relationship. Not losing a sense of who you are just to please the other person.
I truly believe that old saying that you have to love yourself before you can love another person because when your in love it is difficult to hold onto your sense of self.
Somehow the definitions seem to be changing. Love nowadays is about expensive gifts and dinners. These might be a way of showing your love for another person. But, what a hug and a short sentence saying" I am there for you" can do, no amount of gifts can do the same.