Celebrating every day of my life

Celebrating every day of my life
I have a hectic busy work schedule that drains me of all my energy and vigor. Yet on reaching
I find that a new life is waiting for me so that I can celebrate every moment of being at home.
Just as I walk into my home I find the blooming flowers and plants in my kitchen garden looking in my direction.
 I feel that they are celebrating my arrival and being with me and why not? For I am the one who nurtures them  and give them water every day and when I work on a new vegetable bed or flower bed digging deep into the earth  to make pits that can be filled with fertile and manure rich soil, these plants sway in the wind and give me good company.
 They dance and celebrate the hard work that I have put in so that they can bloom and blossom.
 The bougainvillea is always there to give me company and so are the Indian varieties of roses that fill my home  with their fragrance and celebrate nature in its abundance. The brightly colored Primroses brighten the evenings  and there cannot be a dull day thanks to the vibrancy of their color and the sweet aroma that they spread.
The night blooming jasmine ensures that the sweet fragrance keeps flowing in to my room and keeps
me refreshed throughout the night. The dandelions grew up on their own accord uninvited yet when they bloomed  I let them stay and when they bloom and their flowers turn into a feathery mass it’s a sight to behold.
 I get frequent visitors like the bees and the butterflies in my garden that fly  around from one flower to another  in the process of collecting nectar and are themselves enjoying the party of life and bring me cheer.  However they are not alone in giving me company. The cacti were the first inhabitants in the lawn
 and present even before I moved into this house of mine. They stand guard like soldiers at the entrance guarding my lawn. Their thorns are to protect and the defense against intruders and the pink flowers that they have greet me every time I walk past them. Then just on entering the garden  is a bed of herbs that I use in my kitchen and also they serve as my medical first aid box.
There is turmeric to cleanse and purify my blood and tulsi to boost my immunity. There is garlic that not just gives flavor to my food but also keeps my cholesterol in check and how I can forger the ginger buds growing underneath  the soil always ready to ward off colds and headaches.
 The Aloe Vera plants not just add color to my garden but also ensure their place in my beauty treatment regime  as they are an integral part of all the home made face packs.
Together me and my plants co-exist as we live together in one home tending for each other
 and ever so protective and celebrating life together.

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Happy treat for my dil ki deal

I passed out from college and managed to be selected by a good MNC. The company had come to our college for selecting the lucky candidates. I was extremely lucky to be selected as the company was offering a very good pay package. Above all the job was in my city only. This made my parents very happy. All my friends had also been selected by some companies and they were also greatly excited at the prospect of doing their first job. They were also very happy that they would not have to go to another city or town for work. Their greatest happiness lay in the fact that all of us friends would not be separated from each other.
After joining my first job when I got my first salary I decided to splurge it on myself. I decided to go to the best and the most exclusive restaurant in town and buy myself a nice dinner .I had worked so hard for this job and finally that I had got it A celebration were due. So first I decided to get myself a dinner treat and then whatever money would be left would be spent of shopping. This was the plan that I had made and to execute it I went to a nice restaurant. The restaurant was a beach side one and had quite a great ambiance. People sitting there wore expensive clothes. They devoured dishes after dishes and gulped down their drink as if there was a celebration going on. Every one seemed happy and there were frequent sounds of laughter. Everything seemed so perfect here. I was going through the menu eagerly as I wanted to order some good food. Just then my eyes fells upon a group of urchins who were playing out side the premises of the hotel’s boundary wall. They too were laughing but their body language suggested that they were carefree. The expressions on their faces said that they had no worry in this world. Some of them were playing and others trying to sell their wares to the passers by. It was a great contrast. I felt that these were two very different worlds one was here in this expensive restaurant where everything had a price tag attached to it. You could buy it if you had the money. The world outside where these children were playing  had an air of care freeness .The smiles on their faces were priceless. The meal that I was going to order would cost enough money that could buy those children maybe a week’s food. This thought made me very uneasy. Suddenly I felt out of place in this exclusive restaurant. I felt that I had lost my appetite. I left the place without ordering or eating any food. I was drawn towards the children and soon found myself standing amongst them but my celebration was still due so I ordered food and ice cream for all of them from a vendor standing there. The children seemed very happy and then the party was on. They seemed so happy and thanked me. I too felt happy in their company. This was my dil ki deal to celebrate my first salary.

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Dil ki deal to save a life

The moment I saw that red dress in the shop window I fell in love with it. I enquired about the price and found it to be well beyond my budget. I won’t say that it was expensive as the rich lace work on the border and the silk flowers gave it such an expensive and executive look that no price seemed too expensive for it. It’s all together a different matter that I did not have that kind of money with me. If I had a regular job things would have been different. However ever since I lost my regular job due to recession a new job was hard to come by with the qualification that I had. I took up odd jobs as store sales person, or worked at exhibitions and trade shows as temporary staff.With this some money came my way to pay the bills and make two ends meet.  However despite all these hardships I was still hopeful that everything will become fine one day and then I would buy and wear that expensive red dress. In a lot of ways that red dress was a representation that everything was or going to be fine in my life. I felt the compelling need to buy that dress and started working extra hard to earn the money to buy it. I did the job of baby sitting. Worked at a children’s creche and even tutored small children in the hope of saving enough money. By the end of six months I had saved enough to buy the dress. What I had saved was to pay for two months rent or three months groceries. However for me buying the red dress had become a symbol of good times to come.  So I was ready to splurge my money on my object of desire the red dress. As I was about to step out of my shared and rented accommodation my eyes fell on my room mate who was not just my roommate but also my best friend in difficult times. She too was struggling like me as she had also lost her job. She had been my colleague in my earlier company and we had together got the pink slip. I found her doubling up with pain and rolling on her bed. I rushed to her aid and found her to be in a great deal of pain. I escorted her to the nearby doctor. He diagnosed her to be having appendicitis. She was in a medical emergency and needed to be operated upon immediately. Being out of job neither one of us had any medical insurance.  We had very little money between us. The money that we could put together would barely cover the cost of the operation and what about the cost of medication? All this while I had been clutching to the bundle of notes which I was going to spend on that red dress. Due to tension I was sweating and even the notes had become damp. I was in a difficult situation on one side was my friends health and life and on other side was my dream of my red dress. Then my red dress took a back seat as I extended my sweaty hands and put the money in the pool of money that we had. My friend got operated and recovered in some time. I had struck a dil ki deal with my heart that had let go of its passion for the red dress and helped me save a life

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Getting Started

I am not a professional Writer .
 What I write remains confined mostly to my diary
 and some of it appears on my blog
Now I feel
I have got a wider audience
A way to connect with my inner self
A stage to display my thoughts

move on and start a new life

Life means movement and movement enriches our life.Ours is a family of four, me my younger brother, my mother who is a teacher and my father who was in the army. From the time I began school to the time I got to class V .I stayed with my grandparents. It is a place that is very dear to me and my best friend lives just two houses away from the house we used to stay in. Then my dad got a posting to a place where he could call his family and we could all stay together. However for me and my brother it meant a big change. This was a place where we were born. It felt as if we are now saplings that have emerged from the seeds sown in the ground and slowly the seed grew into a small plant slowly but firmly gripping the ground with its roots. I felt a connection with that place, our house, friends, neighborhood  and school. Everything was part of my identity and it game me a sense of belonging with the place. Going to another city was a very big decision for me. Not that I did not love my father or did not want to stay with him. Instead it was the fear of the unknown place combined with the pain of leaving a place that I had got used to and which seemed my perfect home. My heart was being pulled in two different directions. On one side was the choice of staying back with my grand parents and let my brother and mother go and stay with my father and on the other side was to accompany my mother and brother to go and stay with my father and this way we could be reunited and stay as one happy family. With a heavy heart I made the decision of moving to a new city and #StartANewLife. On moving to a new city I did not have much  difficulty in adjusting to the new surroundings. I soon made new friends and played all sorts of games with them. My school had a big skating rink and I was drawn to it instantly.  My father got posted to a new place after every few years and we moved with him. This way I got the opportunity of studying at a number of schools. Some had very good teachers while others offered excellent sports training. Over all I feel the option of relocation and moving to a new city was not a hindrance but a big opportunity that has helped me and my brother become better individuals . By the time I passed out of school I had seen a large part of the country and when the time came to choose a college I had no difficulty in relocating and moving to a new city for my college admission and to #StartANewLife and a new beginning for my career and future ahead
#StartANewLife

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When I discovered the power of together

In this world every thing is possible as long as hope and optimism are constantly by your side. One realizes the importance of these two most important ingredients in human life only when the dark clouds of disappointment cast their shadow in your life. It is at this specific juncture of a person’s life that both hope and optimism come into your life like the rainbow after a spell of rain. They take away the gloom and cast a magic spell of cheerfulness.

I had been a most contented child always lost in my childhood dreams. First it was my toys especially my dolls. They were soon replaced by books. Books of adventure and romance kept me occupied day and night. As a result I was just an average student who passed from class to class without getting any accolades or merit. This was all about to change for me as I was going to have a taste of what deep waters are like. All my classmates had aspirations and they were working hard to achieve their goals. Some wanted to become a doctor while some wanted to join the field of engineering. One day as I sat chatting with my group of friends, I was the only one without a purpose. I felt greatly ashamed before my friends because so far I had not paid any importance to my future nor made any plans.

I went home feeling greatly depressed. I went and sat in my room without talking to any one. My family felt greatly perturbed by my behavior. They could not make me share my thoughts and so they did not know what was disturbing me. I was quite close to my grandmother and it was my daily routine to go to her room and spend an hour or so with her. She would talk to me about her childhood and describe in detail the village where she used to live before she got married to my grand father. My grand father was at that time employed in the city. So my grand mother moved to the city with him.

This evening when I failed to appear in her room she came to my room and finding me sad and dejected, lovingly caressed my head. I suddenly broke into tears, tears which were warm and hot and would not stop. When my crying subsided I confided in her as to what had happened during the day and how all my friends had plans except me. I was afraid that I had left things unattended for too long and maybe it was now too late. I had no special skills. She caught hold of my hand and lovingly looked into my eyes. She said that it was never too late and I had the potential to carve a career for myself. Her words had great strength and were greatly inspiring. She stayed # together with me for an hour or more. We discussed my subjects in detail she made me realize that though I was an average student but my fundamentals were strong and I could still choose a career of my choice. She was certain that by dint of my hard work and if I applied my knowledge with a purpose there was nothing to stop me from achieving my goal.

This being #together with my grand mother changed my life completely. I now studied with a purpose and eventually passed out of school with flying colors. Not only this I also got selected to a reputed medical college. All this would not have been possible without those moments of being #together with my grand mother.

#together

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