Someone once told me that “Happiness is the undying quest of life, the unquenchable thirst and the insatiable hunger of all human kind.”
We always tend to associate happiness with grandiose things in life which will look magnificent be it a job, shopping, buying a property, marriage etc…Come to think of it that there are at times innumerable small events in life which make you happy at that particular time. Obviously the things that are so large in magnitude bring a lot of happiness but we forget to value what the daily events bring to us!
When I started working it was only salary in the initial month that made me happy but later as I got onto my job, many events and things made my work simpler.
Generally I associate my happiness with the small things I indulge in.
My friends and I have started a thing of mailing and chatting through our emails while at office (thanks to the IT dept that many of our chatting sites are blocked)..We talk about how we spent our weekends (that is, if we don’t spend it together), our programmes for watching any forthcoming movie our made through these “Hi” mails…Even if I have a sad day at work these mails make me smile, recollect the fun we people have when we meet and it makes the day so simpler for all of us…. Even a calendar that I got from Naukri.com which has the funniest conversations between people in office that I look forward to changing it every month makes me look forward to a new start each month.
Likewise, a text from an old friend or say when suddenly out of the blue, the team you work with decides to go out for a coffee and have fun…At times after a tiring day when you reach back home and mom makes some of ur favorite food does it not work like a painkiller?? When I see my niece and her smiling face it makes me happy, when I drop my grand mom to the temple (as she cant walk that much due to old age) her good wishes for me which she generally says in punjabi (sorry i am too bad at it) something that means "God Bless and live long"makes me happy.
Happiness is all what we seek for and we long for. We forget the importance of all this as we think that only few things can bring happiness. Perhaps i realize everyday as and when such events occur that, such bliss is attainable with a positive outlook for infinite small things and events in life!!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Monday Mornings
“Monday Mornings!!”
I am not talking here about the Monday Morning blues everyone has but…Go on and find how I had my Perfect Monday!
The other day (Monday ofcourse…) as I settled at my workstation in the morning reading myriad mails a text message came along and guess what “my boss was on leave.” Quite out of nowhere this dialogue from a famous Hindi film “Hum Aapke Hain Kaun” came flashing in my mind where Salman Khan says to Madhuri “Aise din sabki zindagi main ek na ek baar zaroor aata hain”…
Yes, friends Salman was right, in my new office this day has come…and it was only 10:00 am…the entire day in office with no boss to give orders, what else could I ask for…Top it all the entire floor was empty cause the BU team I sit with had gone for an offsite….Phew!! Mind started thinking what to do…
First, office at ITO…Second, CP is not that far, but it was Monday and who would be there to go out with me…Since, God had given this opportunity I had to make full use f it anyways…Very enthusiastically I began searching my contacts in phonebook…I couldn’t ask for anything more….My friend from earlier office was on leave for a week too and was free…Just a text did the trick and she was on her way to CP…
Though we missed the show for ‘Rock On’ but caught up on coffee and an amazingggggg lunch at Nizams… (considering the non-veg freak I am). To complete the super day, how can two women go out and not do shopping.
Perfect start for the week, with Monday going off fantabulous!! Wait for more such days in future too…..Realize it at that point of time that u could not have got a better boss. With the hope I end this that such Mondays come more often in my life!!
I am not talking here about the Monday Morning blues everyone has but…Go on and find how I had my Perfect Monday!
The other day (Monday ofcourse…) as I settled at my workstation in the morning reading myriad mails a text message came along and guess what “my boss was on leave.” Quite out of nowhere this dialogue from a famous Hindi film “Hum Aapke Hain Kaun” came flashing in my mind where Salman Khan says to Madhuri “Aise din sabki zindagi main ek na ek baar zaroor aata hain”…
Yes, friends Salman was right, in my new office this day has come…and it was only 10:00 am…the entire day in office with no boss to give orders, what else could I ask for…Top it all the entire floor was empty cause the BU team I sit with had gone for an offsite….Phew!! Mind started thinking what to do…
First, office at ITO…Second, CP is not that far, but it was Monday and who would be there to go out with me…Since, God had given this opportunity I had to make full use f it anyways…Very enthusiastically I began searching my contacts in phonebook…I couldn’t ask for anything more….My friend from earlier office was on leave for a week too and was free…Just a text did the trick and she was on her way to CP…
Though we missed the show for ‘Rock On’ but caught up on coffee and an amazingggggg lunch at Nizams… (considering the non-veg freak I am). To complete the super day, how can two women go out and not do shopping.
Perfect start for the week, with Monday going off fantabulous!! Wait for more such days in future too…..Realize it at that point of time that u could not have got a better boss. With the hope I end this that such Mondays come more often in my life!!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
"Walk The Chalk"
WALK THE CHALK
Know what you people must be thinking…to end the query, this blog is not about The Shekhar Gupta talk show at NDTV (not even near to that) or when I mention “Chalk” I don’t imply to the soft, white, porous sedimentary rock(Chemistry students would be able to better relateJ) which teachers used at school…..However, this title implies towards the thoughts that I felt when I went with my niece to her school….
It was almost after 5 years that I was visiting any school on a normal school day observing the school life of many students who walked in the gate at 8:00 am in the morning and would spend their most memorable and amazing 13 years (and I am sure that they would be memorable for most of them).
As I entered the school, my first recollection was not friends, teachers, fun or MATHS for sure…but it was the “Chalk” which almost acted like a keyboard for most of the teachers like it does in most of the Executive’s life in Corporate!!
It was like a Natural break we go when any teacher asked us to get a piece of chalk and any student would go out and not come before 10 minutes….any naughty student would come up with many excuses for chalk not being available etc..just to cut short on the teaching time….it was like a team exercise one volunteer so that everyone else could have free time….In my working experience so far, have not seen such excuses made or we cant even dare to…As they say “lot is at stake”
As I entered the hall where the most important task of morning that is the Assembly was being conducted… As I enthusiastically looked around and observed students of all ages with folded hands and closed eyes singing the Morning Prayer, I felt that this hall at that time is so peaceful…but during school days no one really realizes, is it??
Any student’s life is confusing for those years, and growing up is an exercise in itself…Signs of adolescence could be easily viewed in those 30 minutes of assembly…
I just stood there and smiled all my way just thinking how I and my friends used to be…The school uniform, the latecomers standing outside the gate, the uniform checking etc…all put me back in those days….
Assembly dispersed and children made way to their classes all excited to start their day. When I had enough time to stroll in the corridors of school which were vividly in my mind with the thought of visiting the school….I knew that though my “Chalk Days” were over but I some where down the line this place is always gonna be there with me and not only me with everyone.
“Chalk Days” never end just that we place other more important things to realize that they were the “BEST”!!
Know what you people must be thinking…to end the query, this blog is not about The Shekhar Gupta talk show at NDTV (not even near to that) or when I mention “Chalk” I don’t imply to the soft, white, porous sedimentary rock(Chemistry students would be able to better relateJ) which teachers used at school…..However, this title implies towards the thoughts that I felt when I went with my niece to her school….
It was almost after 5 years that I was visiting any school on a normal school day observing the school life of many students who walked in the gate at 8:00 am in the morning and would spend their most memorable and amazing 13 years (and I am sure that they would be memorable for most of them).
As I entered the school, my first recollection was not friends, teachers, fun or MATHS for sure…but it was the “Chalk” which almost acted like a keyboard for most of the teachers like it does in most of the Executive’s life in Corporate!!
It was like a Natural break we go when any teacher asked us to get a piece of chalk and any student would go out and not come before 10 minutes….any naughty student would come up with many excuses for chalk not being available etc..just to cut short on the teaching time….it was like a team exercise one volunteer so that everyone else could have free time….In my working experience so far, have not seen such excuses made or we cant even dare to…As they say “lot is at stake”
As I entered the hall where the most important task of morning that is the Assembly was being conducted… As I enthusiastically looked around and observed students of all ages with folded hands and closed eyes singing the Morning Prayer, I felt that this hall at that time is so peaceful…but during school days no one really realizes, is it??
Any student’s life is confusing for those years, and growing up is an exercise in itself…Signs of adolescence could be easily viewed in those 30 minutes of assembly…
I just stood there and smiled all my way just thinking how I and my friends used to be…The school uniform, the latecomers standing outside the gate, the uniform checking etc…all put me back in those days….
Assembly dispersed and children made way to their classes all excited to start their day. When I had enough time to stroll in the corridors of school which were vividly in my mind with the thought of visiting the school….I knew that though my “Chalk Days” were over but I some where down the line this place is always gonna be there with me and not only me with everyone.
“Chalk Days” never end just that we place other more important things to realize that they were the “BEST”!!
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