Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Mommy, live guilt free!!
"Good moms have sticky floors, messy kitchen, laundry piles, dirty ovens & Happy Kids"
I read this
quote many times before, but it didn’t make any impression. Trashed it off as one of the lazy mommy's defensive talk!! You learn certain things, only when you experience it!! And now with 1.5
yrs toddler around, these lines have become my favourites!! How much I wish, my
husband or anyone else frames this and gifts me just like that – my birthday is
too far!! I want to hang this, right there – Opposite our main door, as a
welcoming board to my guests, even before they look at mess around. Ofcourse,
it should also remind me what is important, I want to be at peace!!
We, Women take
pride in neatly decorated homes. As I write this, I remember another Telugu
quote, “Intini chusi Illalini Chudu” (Translated : Even before you see the
woman, you can know her from her house). Poor thing, it doesn’t take into account
– Kids!! If I have to keep my house neat and clean, I should restrict freedom
of my son. He is too young to understand where things should be!! He likes to
keep everything on floor, – from kitchen utensils to his toys. As long as he is happy, it shouldn't matter!!
His smiles bring more peace than a clean house!! I have given up my quest for perfect
home!!
Friday, April 24, 2015
Don't be too busy to spend with your kids!!
"Don't
keep yourself too busy to play with your kids. Your time is the most precious
gift you can give to your children. Never let them walk away without a smile."
I always wonder,
if I spend enough time with my toddler son? I want to spend with him, atleast
as much time as my parents had spent with me. It is not just about working parents,
many things have changed drastically over years. Even my parents were working, but I knew exactly
when they would be home - all of us used to leave home at 8:15 AM; my brother
and I used to come home by 3:30 PM and our parents by 5:30 PM, same timings every
day from Monday to Saturday. Sundays, all of us would be home. Mornings – we
used to watch Moghli, Sri Krishna Chandrkanta etc on Durdarshan ; Biryani for
lunch; Evenings – we used to go neighborhood children park, if not we will be
meeting cousins for dinner. Life was predictable - It was definitely simple, more
disciplined, clean and serenely happy.
I don’t think my
son has such predictability, he doesn’t know when his parents would be home for
that matter if we would be home at all, as both my husband and I need to travel
for business trips. Nature of our jobs has changed over time, I really wonder
if we have made more progress or added more hindrance with 24*7 working hours, 64
Channel Televisions, laptops, all-in-one smartphones etc. My parents were never aware part of this “Work-Life
balance” struggle, my parents used to earn enough for their times, we were
middle class family. Now, we put double the effort (may not be physically but
mentally yes) and also more hours into work, but even now we earn enough for
the times now, we are still a middle class family.
For good or bad,
we made progress in all the fields, and I definitely can’t keep my family aloof
from this DEVELOPMENT, I just need to learn survive in this chaos now. I always
wish my son had more peaceful and predictable childhood, like me.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Make it the life you want to live!!
"Don't let anyone
rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your
place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make
it the life you want to live" - Mae Jemison
Every word in the above lines has
profound meaning. We often let others tell us what we should do or what we
shouldn't do!! Nothing can motivate us more than our dream and nothing can
demotivate a person as more than our one's own disbelief in self. There is only
life, we have only one chance to do what we wanted do!! Don't let your dream
die with you, Give it a life to let it live beyond you.
About Mae Jemison:
Mae C.
Jemison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the
first African American woman to
travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space
Shuttle Endeavour on September
12, 1992. She was born on October 17, 1956, in Decatur, Alabama. She
was the youngest child of Charlie Jemison, a roofer and carpenter, and
Dorothy (Green) Jemison, an elementary school teacher. After she obtained
her M.D. in 1981, Jemison interned at Los Angeles County/University of Southern
California Medical Center and later worked as a general practitioner. For the
next two and a half years, she worked as the area Peace Corps medical officer
for Sierra Leone and Liberia where she also taught and did medical research.
Following her return to the United States in 1985, Jemison made a career change
and decided to follow a dream she had nurtured for a long time. In October of
that year, she applied for admission to NASA's astronaut training program. She
holds nine honorary doctorates in science,
engineering, letters, and the humanities.
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