What pleases you more: a gift or the gift wrap? Presentation matters at every stage of life. We value the present first by its appearance and then by who presented it and last comes the present. This is human nature. What pleases our eye reaches our mind first. That is why we take lot of … Continue reading Gift Wrap
When you Pay the Penalty, you value the Reward. Rewards always bring a smile and penalty becomes the reason to frown. We live our life wanting to be rewarded for all our good deeds, acknowledge, and appreciate when something positive happens through our way. Have you given a thought how can a penalty be rewarding? … Continue reading Rewarding Penalty
Secrets are not spoken, not heard or not seen. Secrets are the barricades of relationships. Choose to communicate and not to hide so you can be heard and seen and not blocked by your own barricades. Google says secret is something that is kept or meant to be kept unknown or unseen by others. We … Continue reading It’s a Secret
Love speaks its own language. A Journey once started as mamma’s boy leads to a path with free entry to a life where he becomes the hero, villain, supporting actor and every other role you name it by becoming a father. Being a daughter is an advantage from my perspective because I was taught at … Continue reading Daddy
Permission Granted to Live Life the way you Love Life. Ask daddy, ask mummy, ask husband, ask in-laws, ask your teacher, ask your boss and the list of asking never ends. But one thing to notice here is do we ask ourselves to do something for which we seek others permission. Are we taught to … Continue reading Permission Granted
Are you waiting for time to heal and preparing yourself to allow the therapy reach you? Be prepared to be healed with therapy reaching you in time. We always hear people saying, “Time will heal everything”. Time has a superpower because it never stops. When we drive during heavy rains, there are times when we … Continue reading Time Therapy
Can your disagreement be as gentle as a child's innocence who also has an opportunity to make the same noise but chose to stand by her little sister in peace? I agree to what you say – this statement brings a lot of joy to the person listening to it. Whereas when that agreement changes … Continue reading Agree to Disagree
One of the most fascinating view as a kid was watching those soapy bubbles blown into air in Mysore Dasara Exhibition. No matter how much we try to recreate that liquid at home, it never matches to what we see there. One blow and there are so many bubbles with various size, color, shape and … Continue reading Bouncing Bubble
One of the most strongest traits of every human being is their defence mechanism. This develops and grows with us just like how our body develops and grows over the years. A skill which needs no teacher, a quality which needs no special introduction. This is always with us as our faithful life partner. How … Continue reading I Told You So.
Beauty of Excess Deceives the Purpose of Its Existence. Once upon a time there lived a king…. This used to be how the stories began in my childhood. Our kids are not interested in such stories because the options are many. My grandparents and parents grew up in an environment where they lived by satisfying … Continue reading Abundance to Excess
One of the most common phrase when we don’t get what we expect and we are given something which makes us unhappy -Why Me? We always think when something goes wrong in our life that every thing is bad and times when we are happy makes us love everything. When I was in school there … Continue reading Why Me?
Siblings start their relationship with each other by saying: “I did not do anything, he/she took my toy” or “he hit me first” etc. Parents come to the rescue of, I don’t know whom. But I have always heard parents say, “he is younger than you” and the next part of the statement actually is … Continue reading It Is Not My Fault
Choices and Decisions are two things which drives every individual to think: “I will choose the right thing and make the right decision when the time is right”. The irony here is time waits for none and either we choose or don’t and decide or not, time delivers what it is destined to do. So … Continue reading When the Time is Right
Every generation has a story to tell about their family. The memory of our childhood, the environment we grew up in, the love we shared, that contagious laughter all bring nostalgia. My generation is the luckiest because I had the chance to experience the joy of being part of many big family gatherings. We always … Continue reading Family-Lost Treasure
Growing up I was taught: “Value of money changes with time”. This statement was too difficult to understand then because I thought ₹100/- will always remain as ₹100/- so what does value mean? Back then, it was only a thought and did not affect much because this was introduced as part of a chapter in … Continue reading Piggy Bank
One day I asked my mother: “why were you so possessive about me? You always wanted only the best for me. You never wanted me to be hurt. Even the slightest pain would make you feel miserable. You always wanted me to be only happy and have the best in my life.” She smiled and … Continue reading Healing Touch
We all live in a competitive world. So its natural to have asked this question to someone and also been questioned at least once in lifetime. Have you given a thought about what “winning” means? As parents or elders we teach our kids to win. But have we taught them to accept loss? Win and … Continue reading Did You Win?!
Education is one of the major foundation stone every parent wants to lay for their child’s future. Journey of education starts from home and leads to school which is only 1 dimension among the multiple dimensions it has. During my schooling it used to be as simple as English medium and state syllabus. Different states … Continue reading Something for Nothing!?
Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com Kids are taught to respect and love others. Respect elders love young ones, values, humanity and all adjectives describing these qualities by parents. But among all these, we forget what is the most important aspect of life – value feelings of parents, love their dedication towards their children, respect … Continue reading Do Parents Teach Kids To Love Them?
Perception Changes Perspective 