A warm and hearty “Hello” to all my lovely friends out
there. Well, I am back to blogging after a long hiatus. Its feels good to put
down your thoughts in writing and share with the world but I just don’t get
enough time to write or maybe I am so lazy that that I cannot make time to
write!! :P Jokes apart, for some days now, a thought has been lingering in my
mind and the more I think of it, the more I realize certain facts about life
that I wanted to share with you all.
Few days back it was my birthday. Since childhood, birthdays
have always been special to me. The reason being it is the day when you are
showered with attention from everyone. The only day when everybody calls you up
just to talk to you, even those who haven’t talked to you for a whole year! Mom
makes all of your favourite dishes for lunch, Dad brings your birthday cake in
your favourite flavour (chocolate is my favourite of course!), your sibling
makes you handmade birthday cards (for me it was less fighting with my brother
though), your friends make you feel special (friends who are out of touch calls
you up when you least expected them to) and so on. It’s your day! Nobody can take that away from you. All these years
it’s been a magical day to me and I felt like this fairy tale princess (believer
in both!). Then, what changed this year? Well, this year was a birthday away
from home, immersed in work, just another Monday. Somehow, this year did not
felt special though it had every reason to be for its not every year that a
girl turns 25! And as the day ended, I realized quite a few things about my
life that I haven’t thought about earlier.
As I completed 25 years of existence on earth, I realized
that I just passed one third of my lifetime. I look back to the milestone
events in these 25 years. I found nothing significant. Now, obviously there
were events like passing out from school, getting into college, the first job
but these are all just events, they are nothing special, not milestones. And I
begin to ponder on what I have done for myself all these years. Well, I am not
bragging but I have been an obedient kid. I have got on the path my parents
guided me to. Parents, they always know what’s best for you because they’ve
treaded the path before. As kids and adolescents, we fail to realize that and
think that they are just putting it on us but now I am matured enough to know
that’s not true. And for all these reasons, I am forever indebted to them. So
coming back to where I was, the thing is, I followed the tried and tested way
of life i.e. school to college to job. In the process, I neglected me and got entangled
in the web of life. Now I am so immersed in work that I do not have time to pursue
my interests and hobbies. Happiness is secondary to existing. This realization
struck me like lightning.
