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Home is where the heart is :)

My 6 months of Maternity Leave is coming to an end.. And as I'm writing this blog, I'm reminded of the scene from Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, where Hrithik Roshan describes the track that's played on Doordarshan just before a movie screening.. He says that the track used to make him feel very depressed and now that their vacation is coming to an end, he was feeling low and depressed.. Right now I can totally identify with those feelings, since I too am feeling depressed.. And I'm about to get drowned in a wave of helplessness, thinking about how I'm going to manage the many roles that I'm expected to.. A mother, wife, a working woman.. It's just too overwhelming.. To top it all, I'm not yet mentally prepared to leave my baby behind and go to work.. Not that I have a choice in that matter.. It's just that the post delivery blues that I didn't experience earlier, are finally catching up with me.. That I have to leave my parents' home and go o

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

The title speaks of the class of people a lot whom I'm meeting these days. I guess I have the ability to attract the breed of people who are SO curious about others personal affairs that the saying "Curiosity kills the cat", means nothing to them. If there's one thing that really gets on my nerves, it is people meddling in my affairs. Of course there are lot of other things that annoy me but this tops the list. I just cannot take it when acquaintances quiz me about personal aspects of my life. Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a land where people have not heard of concepts like 'space' and 'privacy'. Or even if they have heard of such things they do not believe in the application of it in their lives! Take today for instance. Had to take my Little one (LO) for her vaccination. Her pediatrician's clinic is a stone's throw away from our house so my mom and me always walk up to his clinic, whenever LO is due for her vaccinations. Today, on