Love and compassion - Destiny??

Love is the thing that makes a lot of sense and compassion is another. I cant imagine the world without love and compassion, it would be so void. There are people who lead their lives without love and/ or compassion and I wonder if they are actually living or just surviving.

Another thing I keep hearing from people is that it is our fate that we are not loved or don't find someone whom we could love and express our emotions to. Thinking of which makes me wonder if we make our lives or wait for someone to come along to make it happen for us. If we wait then God save us, cause he/ she would only help us if we help ourselves.

Through my own experience and seeing other lead their lives accepting situations take over them. Challenging aspect is to never let anyone or any event take over your life and understand that life goes on! And when life goes on and people are so involved in their own lives why don't you also ensure to make your future and present as wonderful as possible. I strongly believe that no one can make you feel like shit by spreading rumours or being abusive. All the women taking abuse of any form in your life please stop doing that to yourself. No one can make you feel like shit unless you put a stop to it so remember that and learn to love yourself first. Watch others start to fall in love with you and see the real you.

Please don't be someone else because of the so called "society" as they weren't there with you when you fell but only your family and real friends were. So, care for them and show them love, others are merely existing for you and let it be as every day people have opinions about something or someone. So chill and believe in yourself, remember you have one life that is beautiful. Lets make our lives beautiful and worth living not merely existing. Lets take a pledge today to be women we want to be and not live by others expectations.

Spending time with children

My weekend this time around was really interesting and something that I was looking forward to. Main reason being I would be spending good 4 hours on two days with children. I wasn't even sure the distance I had to travel cause the children were staying near Bannerghatta, Bangalore. I thought it would be a good idea to take my car but since folks at home needed it I had to opt for an auto rickshaw. It was another totally adventurous ride and dedicating another post to it wouldn't be a bad idea ;-)

Thanks to my brilliant idea of partying on Friday night, I wasn't myself completely with the children. I hadn't gotten enough sleep as well and I had this nagging headache as I haven't had vodka for like ages. I really don't enjoy drinking these days even in a social scenario and if I would feel like it would be either wine or in on warm days a beer. Yeah! I know you don't hear many women enjoying beer :-) Looks like I'm deviating here and I need to pen down my experience with the children.

I was amazed at their confidence and the power to grasp anything I was talking to them about. They were excellent in dumb charades even though it was actually the first time they were playing it. I enjoyed being a kid amongst them as I always do but hold back myself in most situations, especially with people who I meet for the first time :-)

They are good at English as a language and Math as far as I could infer. Excellent at communicating as well as expressing themselves. I was really happy to see that the people who have started this school are serious about their work. Even the facility is well maintained and ideal for any child to learn and grow. Each of them coming from various villages across India, mostly South India. Every child has a story which deprived them of the right to be educated and found a path to this school through their own interest as well as the administrators of the foundation.

Today, I was involved in bringing two girls along with their mother who happens to be a heart patient to the school from the main road. This school or rather a home is in the interiors and it was terribly warm today. I was asked by our fellow volunteer if we could get them to this place from where they got off a bus. It was amazing to me for two reasons, one is that I recently started driving after a long break and secondly I was happy to be of some use as I knew to drive. I always known that being able to drive around is a necessity in such times as well as being able to drive your folks around is another happy moment for anyone. Especially moms are the happiest people seeing their kids being self dependent in all respects and not only financially. Emotional Independence is the best thing that could happen to anyone and I have finally found myself through this.

I wasn't keeping too well today and was in two minds to go back to spend time with the children. Then, something in me told me that I could do it and since I had committed myself to this, I just felt responsible for any decision I would make. I know that since this was the first time I actually volunteered for something that made a change to others as well as my life, I should give myself completely without backing out due to any reason.

I loved my weekend and 4 hours well spent and probably the best thing I have done in my life. I would continue to find ways to enrich others lives with my exposure as well as make my life worth living.

Growing up is the best that has happened .....

Every time I think of my birthday coming up I think about entering 30's and for the first time in my life I want to really celebrate the day I was born. Some events in our lives really change our perspective about life and it surely has made me value my life a lot!

I would love to travel as much as possible and read, write, work with children, take a theatre workshop and also play a musical instrument either sitar or guitar. Wow, this year is really going to be exciting since I have decided and career with these things would take most of my time and focus.

Life truly is beautiful and we can make it a lot more interesting as well as to look forward to every single day we are on this planet!