Soulful

"You were never good at it" "Good at what?" "Acceptance" "humph", sighed Alok. This was not the first time Tina teased him about his complaining behavior. Numerous times before too in their 30 years of togetherness, she would point to his restless attitude. And she was right. Alok would hardly enjoy the moments in his life. He was a person who just couldn't ignore the scratch marks on a shining surface. In fact, his focus on the scratches would not let him appreciate the rest of the beauty. But nobody would bother about his somberness. For he had Tina by his side to balance him out. Always, full of life, the one who would always be happy about the glass being half full. And Alok appreciated that part of his life always. She was his life support system otherwise he would have drowned in the sordid existence of his self, as in his words. She would often show her concern to him about it.   "You have to learn to accept the reality of...

Cooking can be a great meditation technique. I am telling this from my experience. After a break of almost 6 years, I am back to the routine of cooking regularly in the morning

It's been a while since I wrote anything for my Blog's theme - a soulful post. Reason - Many. But the end result is I AM BLANK. Yes, that's how I am these days. Why? Because, I am confused looking at the changes I am going through. And I realize these are the changes every human being goes through.

There are few places where the times spent call you over and over again, to re-live the experiences. I spent 3 years in one such place, a place where I spread my wings and soared in the sky literally. The city is Chandigarh - the city beautiful as the welcome plaque says.

When he was 4 all he would do was to sit at the window side and gaze at the number of trucks standing in line outside his home. He would sit there for hours looking through his childish gaze at the different shades and models of the giant vehicles that were waiting to get the gunny bags unloaded and transferred to the huge storage building right opposite his house. 

Img courtesy here Lots of people have congratulated me on my post " What I actually learned while learning to drive on Indian roads " and few have come forward to email me to share their personal fears towards driving.

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