For the restless spirit!

In the roller-coaster called Life, many a time we find ourselves at crossroads - big or small - and one just doesn't know what to do, which way to turn!!! I have had a reasonable share too - and for a person like me who likes to know where I am heading, its not the nicest place to be in...  Yet, that's not a place I want to be stuck in .....patience is not my forte! So, move forward, I must....yet, I often struggled to figure out which way and why. Till I figured out my mechanisms to help me find my direction, when there was none..... In times like this, what has worked best for me is to take a step back, try and put both routes into some kind of perspective, if possible, and retrospect....listen to my heart, my soul and usually that does a good job of navigating me to where I should be headed. Ofcourse, when you listen to your heart, there is this great risk of it leading you completely astray....but then you need to fall back on your open mind - the mind that allows yo...

I recently made a new acquaintance....I didn't have to, but being someone who enjoys meeting new people and knowing them ( and also someone who has to talk, all the time!! ) ...I made an effort and in the past 4-5 occasions that I have met her, we've had interesting conversations. As a person, she seems very different from me - another country, another culture, another age group, different..... yet somehow we managed to quickly establish a makeshift "bridge". Not that I look forward to meeting her as yet...but when I do, we always have something interesting to talk about and I go away with a thought process triggered ... It's another reinforcement of what I have always believed in .... the human mind is best left open ...to new associations, to new experiences, to new roads. That's how we grow, how we evolve, that's how new opportunities come by, possibilities that we possibly never knew or acknowledged. Too often we allow our minds to be closed by...