Anyway!!!

One of my recent reads that has stayed with me!!

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If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.

Be kind, anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy it overnight.

Build, anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow.

Do good, anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough.

Give the best, anyway.

In the final analysis, it's between you and your conscience, anyway.

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Miracles and their hide& seek!

There is always a chance for a miracle to happen. But miracles don't always happen. Between these two perspectives lies the crux of decision making in crucial times.

Belief and reality are two different aspects. Belief is not easily formed, but once formed it takes its own time to change. Reality is the rose is a rose is a rose. Both are powerful in their own way, winners in their own league and can work wonders on their own day.

One must neither sit back waiting for the miracle to happen, nor run around fearing the reality.

We have one life but not one chance! We must give our absolute best every time and be ready to learn the next time, if need be. Let the learning coming in by keeping the ball rolling. Rolling the ball doesn't guarantee a goal but afterall, keeping the ball on the roll enables the goal.

Believe that miracles happen.

Beware of their hide and seek.

Some smiles, we earn.

Some smiles, we earn.

When we appreciate the significance of the earned smiles, we tend to earn them more. It's just about being kind and empathetic in our communication, while maintaining what we are and doing what we are supposed to do.

When we respect the fact that everyone's story is different and unique, we internalize the kindness and empathy which come out naturally and genuinely when we communicate with others. There is no other trick to earn smiles, certainly by not running around to earn them!

At the same time, accept the fact that no one has ever earned everyone's smiles.

Say no to sarcasm! - ParenthoodDiaries #109

Recently one day I was having dinner while sitting in the kitchen. Bharat and Bhuvan were playing badminton in the living room. After the jam packed day, I was relaxing by scrolling through my mobile as I ate.

Earlier as well they saw me looking into mobile while eating and now they were seeing me doing it right in front of them as they played.

One of them said "Amma, look here, watch how we play the new technique we have learnt!"

I was reading something on the phone and routinely said - "Give me some time, I will watch in a while"

One of them replied innocently but straightforwardly, not to hurt but with an intention to give me the idea he got so that I could watch them - "Amma, just watch us thinking that we are also a video".

There was no sarcasm or ego in it but a pure intention to just make me observe them. I loved the whole episode.

Imagine we keep the sarcasm and ego aside and help each other, be kind and try to pull each other up with pure intentions - people become our family and the world becomes our home.

Landscapes waiting to get drenched!

The landscapes in Panchghani & Mahabaleshwar, Maharashtra, are waiting to go green again with the upcoming monsoon season! Here are the photos of a landscape taken in summer and rainy seasons, years apart!

Marriage and questions - ParenthoodDiaries #108

My boys have started to learn about marriage and the stuff around that. They have started saying things that grow the fun-temperature at home day by day!

The below are english translations and I know I wouldn't be able to bring in the soul of their original sentenses. I will try, nevertheless.

"Amma, why did you make your classmate as your husband? Classmates are friends, you should have looked for husband elsewhere"

"My twin brother should have been a girl. We both would have married each other and stayed together forever"

"Where would be my future-wife now? In which home she is growing up? Is my child already in her womb (Since I had said they were in my womb when they asked me why they were not present in my pre-pregnancy photos).

"Amma, in future you too search for a girl who would become my wife. She should be like.... (I don't want to translate what they said)"

"Will I also have twin kids in future?"

"Will I be living in another house after my marriage, like you are living here away from grand mom?"

And so many more are yet to be heard in future, I guess. I'm all up to let the fun-temperature go to any degree!!!