Being Candid

Adhrit is just back from a short trip to hometown in interiors of his paternal village. It was Adhrit's first adventure of sleeping on terrace in summers! After a 1.5 hour flight and 4 hour road journey we had reached home to find there's  no electricity and family was sleeping on terrace. We all were excited to join them and our long separated pets..Pluto and Marcei, their affection would suffice to refresh us! "D'Arcy wants to sleep on his bed", my son Adhrit cried and I was afraid he will wake up everyone enjoying their sleep at 1 am, and I was feeling worried how he would take this experience ahead. Just to distract him, I said see there's lot of wind here, it's cool. He was intrigued. He walked up to his dadi and enquired "where is this wind coming from, there's no AC or Fan here. Just to satisfy his innocent desire, she replied it's coming from moon! He found it interesting, asked "but moon is not moving" (like the bla...

A little bit of everyone survives in us, our ancestors, our parents, or friends, relations close to us, our spouse, our kids, our pets.. life is connected. We have different personalities but in this busy world we often do not look at the world from 'what we are', but we look at it from the perspective of 'how we ought to'. For e.g. I am a carefree person, who does not feel bothered about what anyone says, but I am careful, because for being part of a society which gives you so much (from pieces of pie to pieces of mind) we tend to cooperate, adjust and become someone we are not. And it continues, and we evolve like this, some early, some later, some never, it does not matter to anyone but just to yourself. How we perceive the world depends upon what part of everyone is surviving and of all thats happening around you what part of it you attribute to whom? Its difficult? No, you don't have to do that exercise. You just have to be. Be yourself. Most importantl...