For the restless spirit!

This might sound very cliched but there's no other way of saying it  .... It's absolutely a fact. A fact that we all have to acknowledge if we want to continue to live our lives, not just go with the flow.  Let's face it - a lot of our earlier life goals have by now, either been achieved, ticked off or taken off the list as Life unfolded. And you are left looking at a blank page, wondering what's next?  A blank page can be depressing - there's nothing on it or a blank page can be encouraging - there's so many ways in which you could fill it! Depends on what prisms you prefer to look through. I personally am excited (almost to a point that I have to be told many a time, to calm down!!) with the possibilities, the opportunities that lay before .... I take my time to explore many avenues and then try and shortlist 2-3 areas that seem to fit nicely into what I would like to do more of, going forward, aside of the routine.  Now, I allow myself...

If you are in the same age bracket as me (and I don't necessarily refer to mental age here!) you've travelled long enough to have made many associations along the way. Friends, family, colleagues, clubs, communities - each circle must have grown substantially over the last 30 odd years. And each must have been necessary for specific times during that ride.  But now's the time to take stock, I say.....  As we continue our journey through life, we tend to gather a lot of luggage that sometimes tend to stick on - sometimes they just stay out of old habits, sometimes they stay because we prefer the comfort or sometimes, they stay just because we haven't really assessed their value anymore.  Over the last few years, I have been consciously taking stock. Be it with my social media links or my circle of connects - those I keep in physical touch and like to spend my time with. For someone who always opted to give more, I guess I have become a little selfish now. D...

It's been a while ..... but I have returned and I am hoping like all true relationships, we can pick up from where we left last time .... I have been kinda busy these summer months - growing up and all, exploring more with my princess as we both crossed milestone years - its been a wonderful summer, after a long, long while and I feel more blessed than ever. So, now's the time to share...my feelings, my learnings, my aspirations. I have decided to start a mini-series : Being #50andFabulous   ( partly because I am so excited to cross over, to see a lot through a different prism now and hence eager to share and partly because I need to discipline myself to come back here more regularly !!! )  I have enjoyed growing up, and as a result, growing older. I have never understood why that thought scares some.... and through this series, I want to share my journey and my learnings in an attempt to not only dispel fears of this inevitable j...

Recently I attended a business seminar where I was reminded that as a business, I must focus on "disruptive innovation" or be "disrupted" totally!!!! A tirade of "disruptive technologies" was hurled my way as the shape of tomorrow and I was left gasping! My first thought was I need to run away from it all - it seemed so complicated and challenged every tenet of my learnings so far, and I believe I have a decent share there!  But when I had coaxed my heart to stop pounding and to switch off "flight mode", I thought again of all that I had heard and about what I made of it; it didn't seem as formidable as during the first attack :)  I reminded myself, I consider myself as a change agent and disruption is also about change - only that it's pace or maybe its approach appears more aggressive than I have been used to.... And that's the new world order - new technology, new communication, new culture, new reasons to fight one another,...

Today, almost everyone carries a lot of personal luggage ....as I look around, I struggle to find people that have no struggle going on in their lives. These are tough times, indeed.  In a world full of strife, it seems to be getting more and more difficult to find a safe harbor - a peaceful place where you can let your masks and guards down and breathe easy for a while, if only to energize and go back to your battles. Life "sucks" as my 19 year old often reminds me!!!! Like she really knows it already - bless her :)  But I am not one to give up on Life so easily - I just can't bring myself to do it. So I always look for ways to keep it going, with faith, prayer or delusion - whichever works best. Today, when I was a bit down in the dumps, and chose to withdrew to myself - I turned to my older blog posts; I read carefully what I had written back then, reminiscing on what I had felt then, and what I have lived through in recent years..... and t...

Wow! I hadn't realized it was that long since I last passed by here .....  So this is to reconnect.  With you.  And with me.  We all tend to get busy, with work, kids, responsibilities, chores, life. In a way, we welcome that for we believe it defines us, makes us who we are. Maybe that's why we keep looking at our smartphones whenever we have a spare moment - because we need to seen to be busy, right? Somewhere there's a strong link, I feel, to self worth.  Ofcourse, there's nothing wrong with that. Especially if that makes you happy. The here and the now is important; but you do run the risk of losing yourself in the race - and when Life finally does give you the opportunity to slow down, you look back and whoa! little drops of regrets begin to seep in ..... wish I had done more of that, less of this, so on and so forth. But alas, a tad too late maybe? Which brings me back to what I am doing this morning -...