CWC Team India - Winners - Then and now!!

In World Cup 2015, team India had an outstanding streak right up to the semi finals. Performing continuously, winning all the matches and being cheered by all the fans.

But the support these fans had to offer changed when team India needed it the most. While the team was performing, the entire nation wanted to take credit for the victory. There was an abundance of - It is our team, our countrymen, player from my city et al.

As soon as India lost the first match, there seemed to be no shortage of analysis on the loss - team wasn't well prepared, the other wins were against weaker teams, bowlers don't know how to bowl, batsmen don't perform when it is needed the most, captain didn't distribute the bowling overs wisely and the most disgusting ones to hear - Virat Kohli was busy doing advertisements, he was in a hurry to meet the girlfriend, Anushka Sharma's presence brought bad luck. Are you kidding me ??

The joy of reunion!!

My husband and I have known each other for almost 12 years now. 

We met in college and were the best of friends throughout. Then I landed a job in Mumbai and had to move out. And - we started dating.

That was the start of our long distance relationship, which lasted for about 3 + years. I had a blast in Mumbai but one of the sweetest memories are of the times when he would fly in to meet me. Weeks before his actual visit, all I could do was daydream about the days to come and plan about the things to do. The time would just fly past me and before I realized he would already be on a plane to go back home. The next few weeks would still be dipped in the sweet joy of time spent with him.

Whenever I flew back home, I would start counting back days to my flight. There was lightness in my step and as soon as the plane landed - welcome home echoed in my head :) The joy that reflected on the faces of my family members was priceless. I remember my sister complaining that I got preferential treatment (I was treated quite like the Queen of House). Adding to all this was the joy of meeting my husband (the then boyfriend) again. Between long naps, yummy home cooked food, long chats with family, catching up with old friends and being pampered by the boyfriend, I felt like a celebrity in those days.

Once I moved back to my home town from Mumbai, I got married and settled down with my dear husband. All the anxiety that separation brings along and all the joy that comes with reunions was left behind. Life was good but a little monotonous to be fair. And then I shifted base again to KL an year back. This time I was separated from two families instead of one. So there was double the amount of anxiety. That combined with the fact that my husband wasn't moving with me turned out to be a real bummer. 

I floated back to the time when the two of us were juggling a long distance relationship with full time jobs. Well, if that wasn't enough we also had family expectations to manage this time round. So this time even his visits to KL and my visit back home were all loaded with emotions of the upcoming separation for me - it is tougher to stay apart post marriage :( 

It took us one full year of praying and struggling before he could actually move here. Yes, that's right - one full year. But the day he finally arrived - it was pure bliss. I haven't been happier in this city before. The days are brighter and the evenings are more pleasant. I also realized that I had been living on caffeine, which now, my body no more craves for. It will be an understatement if I say life is easy now. To be aware that I will see him when I wake up in the morning and that he is going to be around every evening when I come back from work is just enough to keep my world going round.

Separation is tough, tougher the second time around but reunions - ecstasy!!

Friendship and Weddings!!

One of the easiest things in life is to be around friends.
It is all the little things like
A cup of coffee....
A midnight phone call....
A movie plan...
And the big pleasure these little things bring along.
This pleasure never fades whether you are meeting a friend after a day, an year or a decade.

I have been really lucky as I have friends who stood by me through thick and thin!!
I have friends who would fight for me, fight with me, talk to me everyday and not talk to me for years but still be my 3 AM friend all the same!!

Being a 3 AM friend - Easier said than done, as one of the toughest things to do is : To be a good friend.

It was my friend's wedding earlier this month. A good friend, one who has been a friend for many many years now.
I didn't attend the wedding coz I couldn't (lack of leaves, read - corporate slavery)

Same happened when another one of my good friends got married an year earlier and two others an year before that (some other seemingly important reasons for my absence)!!

At all these occasions I thought I had a good reason to not be there and my friends would understand.

Now let me tell you, a lot of my good friends didn't come to my wedding as well.
Some of these friends had good reasons that I understood (read - we had drifted apart), others made a genuine effort to explain their situations with endless explanations.

However I don't need to look at my wedding pictures from three years earlier to separate my friends into two categories - ones who made it and the ones who didn't. It made sense to me that my friends should have understood the importance of standing by me on the biggest day of my life!!

So what if I am not great at calling up friends regularly or just keeping in touch but I do consider myself a good friend.
However being a good friend should have enabled me to rationally see that these friends have stood by me on numerous other occasions (like the time I needed encouragement with my paintings and poems... Read more about that here!!) lest this one day. But so far I hadn't succeeded in understanding the reasons for their absence!! :(

Now when the tables have turned and I am the one missing my friends' weddings, I am wishing for two things:
Wisdom to let go of the judgements I made about friends' who didn't make it to my wedding...
And a world where my friends won't hold a grudge against me when I can't attend theirs ;)

That is me - taking one step forward in the world of friendship!! 

My First Blog Post!!

Let me start with why I think I should blog in the first place!!

I am an aquarius-pisces cusp, which to me means, I should have the best of both worlds. So the intellect of aquarians and the creativity of pisceans is what I assume has been bestowed on me. (That's my modest show-off about my knowledge on sun-signs :P )

Now being the creative human being that I am, I first tried to pour out my creativity on canvas which to my disappointment was greatly 'criticized' by my friends - good friends and I mean really good ones!! God, did they save me from being a subject of public humour.