Thoughtful Thursday
A new temple to visit
New procedures to follow
Buy this color flowers for God…
Buy ghee for lighting lamps
So that your wish is fulfilled…
Start a puja cycle for 48 days…
Spread the paddy grains in front of God
And write your wishes
To find them fulfilled…
108 circumambulations will help…
Donate to the temple annadhanam…
Give your details and we’ll mail you prasadams…
The list is endless
For wishes to be fulfilled…
Every item in the list is followed
And more lists are welcome too…
But outside the temple
The old lady who is hungry is ignored…
The animals are shooed away when they come near…
Helping others is found time consuming…
People think that talking loud and arguing
Are the ways of this world…
Bargaining for a few rupees from a local seller
Is being the smart one…
Somewhere along this journey
In search of the never ending things of life
There is a heavy loss of humanity
And kindness…
Let our hearts soar like this gopuram
In reaching to the heights
Of humanity
In looking out for others…
In praying for others…
Talking a lot by being silent…
Doing an act of kindness everyday…
Bringing a smile to one person everyday…
That is rising above the ordinary – just like the gopuram!
This and that from a mother!
I remember the day she started loving paneer…
Its still so fresh in memory, the day she started having milk like other kids, overcoming her allergy to milk…
The day she stopped telling “buuuu” for any color I ask and started telling the colors so clearly without the hint of baby language…yes, I remember…
The day she stopped referring to herself with her self-made name “athroo” and started referring to herself as I / me / myself – very fresh in memory…
The day all the baby talk blabbering stopped…very much remember them…
Now, I wonder when her fav color changed from blue to pink or the other colors which she didn’t prefer before!
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I wonder when she started preferring geometric designs on her dress!
When did she grow up so much to give psychological lessons to me!!
Or when did she become my mother to scold me for getting a headache..he he!
When did she start disliking her fav potatoes and started liking the fruit salad!
Am just sitting here and knowing about the changes suddenly, without any warning and am like, when did this happen!? I just sit and wonder about them, as they keep going through the changes.
As a birthday keeps approaching, the mommy is going through a lot of thought process…
Those real life incidents as Memes :D
There are so many memes that do the rounds based on the current trending topic. But memes made for the mom and her ways with her children are applicable forever.
Especially listed below are a few which my daughters have identified with me…he he…guilty of some…but at that moment it was required 😀
This one is the best. I always used to wake them up like 30 mins early. The problem is I don’t like to be late for anything and I insisted that my children learn that quality in life. But now if you ask me, I should have let them be as they are and that they will learn things when they are ready for it. Sorry girls for stealing those precious sleep moments!
ha ha…this is one is epic 😀
I used to roll my eyes like that for accidental use of curse words and my elder one took it up so seriously that she would roll her eyes when the younger one used it with her. And I think she still does that with her sister..he he…:D 😀 How I imparted those rolling eyes to my girl?! ha ha…this is true life incident!
Oh yes…many times I think…even before they start with something, I’ll assume its going to be some other thing and then say no without hearing properly. Then later, while we were lying down in bed, she’ll explain the same thing to me and I’ll be feeling absurdly foolish for having said no.
This my daughter sent me, so I guess she has done this many times 😉
But that smile is the sweetest, I tell you 🙂
Ohhh…this happened then and is happening now…ha ha…its a competitive world, I say 😀 😀
I was totally taken aback to be used like this 😉 But I guess its quite natural..ha ha 😀
Am guilty of doing this…umpteen number of times! Especially, when I had got them phones for the first time, the top most instruction is to pick up my call in the first bell itself. And if it doesn’t happen, the missed calls will increase. Now, I call and if they don’t answer, I try to instruct myself that there is a valid reason for not answering and that I should wait for a return call. It takes time, even with mothers…sigh 😛
This one happens all through the holidays! Shifting from one room to another in search of a warmer bed…sigh…those days !
So, dear mommies, do you relate to any of these, in your life? 😀
Come on…spill it!
WW – A garden’s visual treat
Microblog Mondays: Women’s sports – watching is biased too…
As we all know, the recent headlines has been that the Women’s cricket team is doing extremely well in the World Cup tournament. Even though the viewership has increased to watch women play cricket or any other game, there is this chauvinistic mentality to not watch women play sports and where they doing it extremely good too.
Any sport is a combination of strength and technicality. Some require a need for greater strength, some need more technical execution. Some sports are a treat to the eyes like synchronized swimming or floor exercise in gymnastics; while visual beauty is appreciated, the hard work behind it for such perfect performance is looked over.
The application of strength or technical precision or a mixture of these two, on the arena or field and to remain calm in a tension packed zone and perform well too – all these require the sports person to be well balanced in body and mind.
So why the bias in watching women’s sports and especially those when they are performing well?
Skywatch Friday – 4
This is the western sky, you see
Which is in glee
After a drizzle spree
Owing to my plea 😀
Linking this with Skywatch Friday!
