Wish!

Everytime I see a baby being used by the street side beggars to beg, I feel very sorry for the baby. Such small babies all day on road in such hot sun, pollution, dust and noise.. my heart weeps for them. I once saw a baby with poop all over his bummy all dried up and crying, but the lady carrying him hardly cared. I had to stop! I spoke to the lady, gave her some money and requested her to clean him and feed him something. The sight disturbed me a lot. But when I discussed it with my hub, he talked sense, they create such disturbing scenes so that people get disturbed and give money. If that's true , I fell prey to it but otherwise with a few chances of that being genuine, that baby might have been fed.

I stopped giving money to such beggars, but I really feel the need to do something towards the cause. I don't even know if there are some groups working towards it as the occurrence of such beggars has drastically reduced but not completely eradicated.

Every child deserves a healthy childhood.
I have always contemplated adopting a baby. I truly believed that its a very noble thing to do, providing life to a child, who for no mistake of his/her has been deprived of everything.

But what I have realized is, adopting and bringing up one child is not the solution, and it also comes with a lot of baggage and needs a lot of maturity to handle all possible situations that might occur in future regarding rest of the family accepting the child as part of the family , and more importantly making the child feel secured and loved all through life.

What I have in mind is an inspired idea from my Aunt's friend in Vizag. He has started a children home, where he takes care of 15 to 20 children of all ages. Provides them all the necessities, schooling, healthy and happy childhood. He actually brings them up like his own children and along with them. He inculcates in them the need for education, makes them take up constructive and creative hobbies like candle making, soap making , greeting cards etc. I could contribute by donating money and spending an occasional day with the children at that uncle's place, but that would certainly not be enough. Those children have been taken care of, there are lot of other in need of help.

The idea is still incubating, I need to get my family's approval, logistics, gather all the required information reg licenses, more importantly finances... and most importantly reaching out to the needy children.

Mid year resolution

Whenever I hear anything bad that has happened to someone I know or don't, I kind of assure myself to believe that it cannot happen to me. It comforts me to assume that I am shielded to all bad things that can happen to me healthwise or even otherwise. Any other day, I would've passed it as positive thinking but not now, not anymore. It now sounds foolish and ridiculous. If it has happened to my best friend, I stand all the chances for it to happen to me.

We take life so much for granted that we turn a blind eye towards the guy next door falling prey to some ailment because of unhealthy lifestyle. We keep hearing more often than not these days, about exercising everyday, eating healthy, cutting down on deep fried and oily snacks, avoiding high sugar sweets, eating fresh fruits and vegetables, and the list goes on and No , it doesn't! The list ends there. If you set out to inculcate all those in your daily routine, as your lifestyle, its not all that tough too! Its definitely cant be tougher than being on medication all life through and withstanding the side-affects.
Best part is , you can have your share of occasional cheat days where you can indulge in whatever you want without having to worry about how much its going to affect your readings in the next blood test and even worse, the guilt associated with it.

I don't know how long am going to live, I can't control that. But what I can control is how healthy can I live as long as I live. I resolve to take the baby steps towards a healthy lifestyle for my family and me, for they are all I care about the most.

A prayer for good health for my friends and family...

Akshara - my cute lil super performer :)

I don't think I ever sat in the audience at any of my school annual day functions. Annual day fns at school were always about performing, practicing and having fun.
Saturday, 10th March I was sitting amongst the audience for the first time. It was my daughters annual day fn at school. Fingers crossed, and all tensed, I was only praying she does well and enjoys herself. I was worried she would be bogged down by the stage fear, so many lights and so many people. It was her first time afterall! But my daughter proved me all wrong! She was truly enjoying herself and dancing, so bindaas!

It was truly an exhilarating experience for me, to watch my little one perform on stage for the first time. I had tears of joy initially, but later on it was all about hooting and cheering for her. I can go over her video a zillion times and feel proud each time!

Parenting is really soul satisfying, and its all about being selfless and finding happiness in your children's smallest accomplishments. Highly recommended :)

Looking forward to an exciting life ahead!

I like!

1) What Others think of you is none of your business. - True, but isn't that what we are worried about most of the times? I am still trying to figure out the real ME.

2) No one is the reason for your happiness, except you Yourself. - True again, but then why are we so affected by others actions? Most of the times, the reason you are upset is someone else.

3) Don't compare your life with others, you have no idea what their journey is about. - So completely agree. What you see is not what you get, you get a hell lot of shit too!

4) Smile, you don't own all the problems in the world. - Agree , but My problems are problems enough to not to make me smile .