177. #Throwback

Ever wondered how life should treat you?

Well, you deserve the best in life!

The sooner you realise, the sooner you start loving yourself, passionately!

 

176. LEARNING TO LOVE MYSELF!

Dressing for that someone special, that is, YOU is so beautiful!

When we learn to love our own selves, we can love our loved ones so much better!

175. LOVE IS THE ONLY GIFT TO THE UNIVERSE!

You will ask me, why do I write about Love!

I will tell you, Love is the only thing that lives and breathes!

 

174. LOVE TO WEAR LOVE!

Roses are said to be red, violets are supposedly blue,

But my love for you is forever true!

 

173. STAY GRACEFUL ALL THE TIME!

Gracefulness is a way of life!

To be graceful at all times is an art!

 

172. RED SUMMER!

Red is the colour of love,

Red is the colour of life,

Red is when I think of you,

Red is when I think of you!

 

171. I DRESS UP FOR HIM!

My son is my BFF. We spend a lot of time together. We love hanging around shopping malls and food joints. Since we are both foodies, we tend to eat at the drop of a hat. We both dress up for the occasion and make sure we look our stylish best. And of course, we enjoy every moment we spend together!

 

170. BLUE GIRL!

Blue is the colour of Love!

 

169. LOVER OF ALL HUES!

Life is beautiful when you wrap yourself in the colours of love!💕💕

168. LOVE THE HUES OF PASSION!

Life is made of many hues,

What you wear is who you become!

 

167. OH, FOR SOME FLOWERS IN MY HAIR!

I am a flower girl,

A flower Lover,

A Lover by default,

And a passionate Lover!

 

166. Hues 

Ok, don't know where I stand right now but I love it wherever I am. I don't know if I have done my bit but I know I still have a long way to go. I still have a lot to do and to love a lot of people. It's been a hard life but I somehow have no regrets. I have lived for the moment and enjoyed every second. The sound of laughter over the phone of someone close to my heart. Of giggling like a 13 year old at some stupid joke. The joy of imagining, of creating, of singing, of praying for someone I don't even know. Of speaking to people about the beauty of love and life. Traveling, meeting people. The feeling of elation, of happiness of things big and small. Watching the sun rise over the hills and walking through the tree-lined park. Of telling someone of my visions of a peaceful world. Of talking to the woman who has lost her fingers and is now begging in front of a mall. And then seeing Tirus' happy flushed face when I tell what a best-friend he has been to me ever since he was born!

165. Smile!

I know I have enough road rage to burn anyone to cinders! But a couple of days back, what a friend of mine opined that he converts his road rage into a totally different energy; a smile. Left me thinking though!

"There are enough nerds out there on the roads to make you turn into a real life monster in the process. But if you can just convert all that steam into something more positive, then that gives!" 

Now, how good is that? The only thing we got to do is smile when there is a rash driver honking like it's the end of the world or if there are the-nouveau-riche-kind-of people trying to zig-zag through the traffic. Just keep your cool and try to transform your anger into a mood of your liking  by broadening your lips into a smile. And then there is peace; within the body and even without!

164. The Loner

163. I Wish!

If wishes were horses, then surely I would have flapped my wings and flown to near and distant places to help my brethren ! I so wish I, this speck of dust that I am in this gargantuan expanding Universe, would bring a change to my Earth? The feeling of hope so exhilarating and the more than often thoughts of utter helplessness inflict a pain within me utterly unbearable so much so that I am like a fish caught in a fisherman's net, trying to break free!

I feel more pain when I see the young people while away their time doing absolutely nothing when they actually have this innate power to do so much more than they can imagine. The youth are the guiding force of the whole world. They can be the change they want to see. If they join hands, they will be a force stronger than any in the world. It is towards them that each and everyone across the nations are looking at. If they set an example, others will be bound to follow. It is more a thinking from the heart that the young people should do. If they resort to violence, there will be absolutely no hope left for any of us. 

The world does need a lot of people who think more humanely and it is the youth who can show the way to this dream world! I wish! 

162. Vini Mini

I have been reading a lot recently on the earliest forms of writings and pictograms starting from 3500 BC, when the process of recording world history started in a systematic manner. Great revelations through drawings on the walls, clay tablets and more of the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indus Valley and Shang Civilizations. Some of these writings could be deciphered and some could not. However, the earliest writings are interesting in reference to the present day context. 

Why I say this is because as I was reading this, my mind flew back to school when a couple of our friends started the Vini Mini language and glory of all glories, which even had original alphabets.We talked amongst ourselves in this secret language, which was Greek for others and Vini Mini for us. We even wrote letters to each other in fairly long sentences decipherable only by us. What fun we had as we behaved like 'secret-agents-on-a-mission-to-save-the-world'! Well almost! 

The Vini Mini alphabets which we created from the English alphabets.

161. Imagine

Imagine there’s no jealousy

Imagine there’s just compassion

Imagine there’s no killing

Imagine there’s just Mother Teresa

Imagine there’s no corruption

Imagine there’s just good people

Imagine there’re no cunning people

Imagine there’re just smart people

Imagine there’s no cutting of trees

Imagine there’s just green all around

Imagine there’s no poor and the deprived

Imagine there’s just equality

Imagine there was no 30^th October

Imagine my brothers and sisters are still alive

Imagine there’s no fight for a separate state

Imagine there’s just one people

Imagine there’s no boundary

Imagine there’s just one world

Imagine there’s no war

Imagine there’s just love, love and love!

160. All in the mind!

In a letter to Indira Nehru, when as a young girl of 16, she was trying to recuperate from pleuresy and suspected tuberculosis in Les Frenes, Switzerland, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote from India, "Health is not merely a physical condition. It is very much a mental affair. You complain  of nerves. We are all more or less nervy but we must not be dominated by them...you should deliberately put worry and nerves on the shelf. It can be done. It has been done." 

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Over the years, I have noticed that my mind plays a very big role in how I have shaped myself so far. As a young girl, I remember drifting through life without a worry in the world and that is exactly how my mind took shape. Gay abandon would be the right word for me then.

However, over the years, life has shown me its different shades; some of which I have enjoyed and some that were not too pleasant. Incidentally, I feel blessed by the fact that my mind has this emmense power to retain only that which is good and has deliberately made me forget the unpleasant situations. 

That is what I keep telling all my family (especially my mother who frets about the strangest of reasons!), friends, colleagues and the people I counsel; forget worrying, start living and have a good night's sleep!

Now it's a fact that each one of us have our fair share of worry. But why worry? If there is a problem, there has to be a solution and the solution is to get to the bottom of the problem. No lock has been manufactured without a key. 

Living in this magic moment should be the mantra for each one of us. It has been done and it can be done.

159. Just another day!

Spending one whole day with the underprivileged children of the same God is probably not enough for me to understand the pain and the angst they had gone through when they were abandoned. However, to see angels coming together to make their lives less painful was heartening when people from all across the city met at the Interface at the Don Bosco Provincial House a couple of days back

My only wish is to see these children dream for the stars; to see their dreams fulfilled. 

To be a part of Fr. V. M.Thomas' dream for a Child Friendly Guwahati is the beginning of being the wind beneath the wings of these children. 

"It is just another day when we don't think about the people who need our helping hand."

158.A day well spent!

I hadn’t been able to talk to Fr. Johnson even for a second after the first call. And then I got into a frenzy of activities. Then came D-day. I decided not to go for my routine jog in the morning as I wanted to sit and work ‘cause I hardly had any time between my preparation and reaching DBI.

DBI or Don Bosco Institute at Kharguli is located at a location, which is very close to Paradise. As the Borluit flows at an unpretentious pace, my mind races to give my best. Why best and to whom?

Well, it’s been quite a journey with DBI since the start of the millennium. Fr. V.M. Thomas literally kept me on my toes with the plethora of activities over a decade and now with Fr. Johnson, I knew my schedule was going to be busier than I would dare to imagine.

Incidentally, this is what I love doing. Counselling, talking to people and resolving their problems. So, on 20^th of September, I, armed with my laptop, which invariably is loaded with all sorts of things, made my way full speed to DBI. I had to present or rather animate for 30 odd junior engineers from Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB).

Though I almost always go to present something or the other but I actually come away learning far bigger lessons from the participants and at the same time having a hilarious time.

The mixed participants of young and old laughed, interacted, joked and made my presentation on communication far more interesting than when I started off with the thought that I will stick out as a sore thumb with this crowd. What a group! Hats off to this beautiful team from ASEB.

After lunch, my drive through the road from DBI to Tata Institute of Social Services was a dream ride. I was relaxed, it was drizzling, while I drove at a snail’s pace glancing at the misty-with-drizzle-river once a while to satiate my love for my Luit.

I reached TIS by 4.30 and within a couple of minutes the whole place was swarming with young people only to be joined a few minutes later by the moderator Kula Saikia and speakers Indrani Rai Medhi, Sriparna Barua, Mitra Phukan, Pulak Banerjee and Samudragupta Kashayap and a host of other people from different backgrounds. It was quite an evening as we all talked about whether “Society can change the Media”. Well, I was only of one opinion.... “If we got to see change anywhere, every individual should be the change. Be the one man army.” Wow! Quite a day!