Christmas, the last festival for our family in the season of festivities.
Commercialised are the celebrations here in India.
Never are for us.
Lots of joy, with family - that’s the spirit we celebrate with.
Merry Christmas to one and all! 🎄
Being surrounded by all the festive sales and offers for the past four months, it’s been absolutely exhausting to not fall for any unnecessary purchases. Especially difficult given that I look at them through the screen of this two year old smartphone. Sigh! 1-2-3 Breathe-in …
I’m finding it a lot hard recently to focus on any form of writing. I’m making it unnecessarily difficult. In the push to write good, thought out posts, I am not writing anything at all. Thoughts, they are abundant. I need to make sure I unburdened the mind of them, in time.
I find it so difficult to stick to a routine, especially a daily one. Whenever I make my mind to try doing something daily, it’s as if the whole universe gets down to foil my resolve. I need to get better at it.
“If you don’t have time to do it right, you’re unlikely to have time to do it over,” reminds Seth Godin. Simple, yet so poignant. I wish I could live my life being aware of this somewhere at the back of mind. It’s not the most efficient way to get the results every time. Being cognisant however that halting is an option always helps.
Our society does not look at “giving up” respectfully. Especially if one does so without being successful. But cashing out early, accepting the failure, is always a sensible option.
Giving up early is problematic. But hanging on just to delay the inevitable is foolish.
With another tumultuous year coming closer to end, it was time to start reflecting back. As I did last year, my Now page is the best place to start. I updated it one last time this year. Over to review how I spent the year, always wonderful to read the strikethrough entries.
I recently got nostalgic and got my daughter a new toy I played with as a child. As is her habit, she became curious and began asking questions on how it works. She did find out, and of course, decided to make a video of it. So, a new video premiered today.
I watched Incredibles 2 recently for the second time. I liked it a lot better on repeat viewing than I did the first time. Perhaps I just had too many expectatios from the sequel to one of my favorite Pixar movies. It’s fun, kept me at the edge of my seat throughout. 🎥
To everything that we do, there is always something we haven’t. Time is like a balancing scale. When balanced, more things are not on it than there are.
When I recently wrote this, I had no idea it’s going to only go downhill. There are a lot many things off the scale now.
I love emails, sending and receiving them. In today’s world of social timelines where you shout into a void and expect an echo back, the medium of email feels a lot more personal. Drafting a long email to a friend today reminded me of the time when I wrote letters to my family, a few pages long. When we carefully selected and penned the words to convey the emotions we were living through. Physical letters were replaced by their digital form, the email, but the manner we communicated didn’t change.
With email, there’s no urgency, no pressure of read receipts and associated expectations for response. And when the response does arrive, there’s a feeling of connectedness. Instant messages, those words we spurt in burst, don’t exude that sense of affinity. A well-thought email does; it makes you mindful of the fact that someone cares.
One is a letter, another is messaging. It’s unfortunate that we have forgotten how to draft the former. I wish I knew more people who shared my liking for this medium.