For the restless spirit!

And I learnt  …. A young friend recently wrote beautifully about her experience as a tired but happy mom of 1 year old twins - she inspired me to think of where I stand on my motherhood journey, given that my daughter is soon to be 21 and technically could even have her own little one, should she chose too!!!!  It’s been a long road and if I look back, one that I am most proud of. Not because I have done it “right” - who’s to say that anyways? - but because for the last 21 years it has been the fulcrum around which all of my life decisions have revolved.  I firmly believe there is no single road to Rome and each mother does her best, only because she cares, so much.  At the risk of stereotyping, I will say, women don the cape of motherhood very naturally - nature and evolution have given us enough reasons to. A mother is a mother - irrespective of where she stands in the world, or within the society, or in her journey through life. There are many en...

And this will be my last post for this short series....so here goes ..... Normal is pretty good and getting that road paved may have taken you years; but for me, now is the time to look for those flowers ... to travel a path often dreamt of but never traversed.  Over the years, we have got used to a kind of life, a routine, many habits, expectations, behaviors. But guess what? The world has changed so much and so have you. And we've only got started!! So, what used to be "normal" isn't.  Today, I look around from where I stand and so much amazes me - in both good ways and not so pleasant ways too. Societies, polities, communities, families, friends, organizations - all have the same trajectory : change, transformation, evolution.  And I have been on a roller coaster for many years now - loving some of the changes that given me hope and at the very next moment, being horrified by some other manifestations that shaken the very core of my fa...

I ts a new year again - as they say, with new possibilities. And I continue onwards and upwards! One of the bigger life lessons that has hit home now is that I have to expect change - literally everywhere.... in myself, mentally and physically (and how!!!!), in others - even near and dear ones, at work, in the broader social groups I am a part of, in the world. Yeah, in just about everything! Change is inevitable - always was - but its current pace can knock the breath out of us born when the world was much simpler. Yet it is there, in your face, and you have really no choice but to deal with it. What is important to understand and remember is that it is your reaction to this change can absolutely make or wreck your lives, hereafter.  Your options in dealing with any change are actually quite simple: Get shocked/alarmed/agitated, go into denial and run back to the cave  OR Take stock, understand, assess and make gradual shifts in your response - so that you don't st...

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,...