Category: The Ordinary Extraordinary
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Age is not just a number it’s an honour and privilege
🥂Cheers to 59🥂 As I celebrate this beautiful number there are many thoughts floating about in my mind. As always here I am penning them down to share with you all. Age, I am thinking , is not just a number it’s a privilege and an honour. A chance every year to complete the circle…
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Gender bias: why we all need to step up
A very happy International Women Day to all the amazing women in my life. Congratulations to us all on coming such a long ways and constantly striving to move forward. This year certainly made history as Vice-President Kamilla Harris took her rightful place in one of the most esteemed offices in the world. We all…
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FAITH WILL NEVER FAIL YOU
Today I share with you a true story of faith and how it can make our wildest dreams come true. I need not write any words as the video itself tells the story. I hope you enjoy the watch. Here is a post you may also enjoy. And here is what The Saheli Foundation is…
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True love is a little more than chocolates and roses
Of course, chocolates and roses are delightful but when life throws a curve ball you need a lot more to keep that love strong and alive. Continued from “Our Bollywood Style Love Story” (You may also want to read this). It was this hope in my heart that got me through to February of the…
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How will you remember 2020
It is my personal experience and belief that life is never good or bad. It is one continues process of experiences, lesson and growth. It is us humans who choose to label things as good or bad. When we choose to label, erase or push under the carpet the gentle whispers of life, we deny…
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The most memorable Christmas
It was the winter of 1984. Just before Christmas to be precise. The little town where I was staying with my father was bursting with excitement for the holiday season. The glistening white snow; the twinkling Christmas lights; the over stocked stores; hustle and bustle in the streets and my favourite Bing Cosby Christmas music…
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Our Bollywood Style love story
When you have been married for over 38 years like we have been, you don’t come alone. You are part of a package that is so intricately intertwined living, learning, growing and evolving together. Our love story has always been at the centre of my being and my universe. It has been my compass guiding…
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Find beauty in letting go
We weigh ourselves down by holding onto all that doesn’t serve us. All the worries, the fears, the need to control, the grudges, the guilt, the failures, the let downs, the anxiety, etc., etc. We are meant to go through life experiences to learn, grow and move forward. Yet we hold onto all that happens…
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Expectations: How to let go and simply create one
It was shortly after I started blogging that a friend had mentioned how I should do a post on human expectations. She herself was feeling a lot of pain for a dear friend of hers who had gone into depression due to unmet expectations. Apparently the friend’s family moved to North America when her kids were…
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How to find your authentic self and fulfilled life: 25 thoughts to let go of judgement
Of all the habits we acquire from living within a culture the most detrimental to leading a life of fulfillment, in my opinion, is that of judgement. In the series, that I began last week, the intend is to discover our own truth by unlearning what culture has subconsciously taught us from childhood. We accumulate…