Simply at home

    Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. While each day we plan and try to take over or space in that most times when we work with kids or any other there is always an element of surprise. Lets call this the unexpected. we need to face it and work around it. So today my son happened to peep into the bag filled with vegetables bought for the week, tore apart the plastic expecting something else that he could munch. To his surprise it was small onions (not shallots) that fell off the plastic and was spilt all around. Since it was not what he wanted he moved on. Now, I had planned an activity entirely different for that day, I was sitting there observing all this, and a thought a spark, why not pause and convert this itself as an activity for the day? Normally the focus would be to get to the planned activity and think that as the goal and so on.  I would react or i would clean that space to move to that activity planned. Entire mood would go for a toss. now life is ...

Lots of quotes are floating today in this digital era, some resonate in full. Each of us we view them in our minds eye of perception and there is no right or wrong to it. The following was a forward and I want you to read it interpret in your way and see if my interpretation to the same matches, else do share yours in comments. I landed up at DEF when my mind raced back to alphabet A. and each of these became questions rather than what it says. Let me share how. A - Do I accept myself as I am? or do I feel I need acceptance from others around me? B - Do I believe in myself ? or do I fall trap for what ever someone believes me to be from their point of lifes understanding? C - Do I celebrate myself? Or do I find only faults in  me that, I should have done better in each step of the way? D - DO I defend myself? or do I let it go and say sorry for anything and everything just so I am accepted in the society even if I was right? E - Do I encourage myself? Or do I wait for someone to ap...

I have always heard the saying, 'mind is a monkey'. Of late with the kind of network and connectivity, we have loads of information in much less than a click of a button. Multiple ideas and the need to jump from one source to another, not just makes us feel low in our self-esteem, but also the need to try everything.  So, as a monkey, today we try different tools and land up getting sucked into the vacuum of trying and starting something new, before finishing the ones we started. The subconscious mind is confused, there is a sense of incompletion and it keeps bring that too into our internal minds eye and suddenly we feel overwhelmed even on days when we had all the worlds time in our hands doing nothing but feel exhausted. Ever felt this? This is due to the fact that we start with a project 1 and before seeing its completion we start project2 and 3, we can if we have the intention of completing one and all. This my dear friend brings a low self esteem to the subconscious and ...