Mathematics was my fav subject
It still is…
I knew the tables upside down
And geometry was so much fun
Algebra, Trigonometry
Logarithms
Oh my !! I used to race them all
In solving the problems and all
I thought this was the world of genius
And I felt part of it
Thinking that this will take me ahead
I walked around with a proud head
I surely felt elated
My ego was suitably inflated
I used to feel like I knew it all
Till a decade back
I realized
That all those functions and theorems
Doesn’t have anything to do
With my present state of life !! Sigh !!
I went behind it too
To pursue it as my course
I jumped into logic
Binary and Hexadecimal
Coding with C++
Till one fine day
When I learnt that
Doing things without logic
Just on the intuition of the heart
Gives me more happiness
And joy !!
And in the process of loving a subject
I left out on many things
Which I would have loved to do
This certainly is not a regret phase
Its just thinking aloud
About not learning those other things
Which I am good at too !!
My dad used to swim well
I could have learnt swimming from him…
I did learn later
But with Dad it would’ve been great !
My mom cooks damn well
I could have learnt straight under her
Instead of learning from her through phone…
My patti was a great entrepreneur
She did so many things from home
It was her necessity
But I try to think of her ability
To manage business so well
Without a B-school degree !!
I could have learnt to sing better
To stitch better
To design clothes better
To do kolams better
To solve that crossword better
To paint better
To bake better
And…
I could have read more books
I could have traveled to places
Than be stuck in the same place !!
I never realized the art of writing
Was there inside me
Till the day I pushed myself
To become a blogger !!
This is just a blabber post
About people missing out
On their passionate stuff
And to realize their true self
The skills they have
With which they were born
We fail to look into ourselves
And see what we have !
We close our eyes
And jump into the sea of people
Who throng those colleges
Of professional courses !!
Without understanding what we are
It is difficult to study engineering
Or medicine or any course !!
Why not take time out to see
How we fare
Inside our hearts
Do we have a singing voice ?
An urge to play an instrument ?
Interested in stars ?
In reading palms ?
Helping out people ?
Talking to people ?
What are we inside ?
What do we like ?
Make a career out of that
And never feel a regret !!
UmaS Reflections 
What courage it has taken you
To pull all these regrets through
Yet you’ve surged ahead
In spite of what you’ve said
Guts of this sort are got by very few!
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Thank you Gulshan 🙂
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You have put out well what you could have become beautifully! I think everybody who has got thinking power will think like this one day. I am reluctant even to think in this angle. We live according to others’ wishes, I feel. No choice for us. This should not happen to my children…I am seeing to it!
Very well written words.
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Thank you Sandhya…
We realize many things as we grow old and the best we can do is make sure our children are not doing the same stupid things like us !
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