Such is Life!!

Life is a perfect player. Everyone is confronted by the ups and downs of life. No matter who you are, what you are and what you do, it just comes face-to-face to slap the hardships across your face.

Well, is it a test of time or is it a war between what you expected and what you got? I have always come out strong from these ups and downs of life. Even if that was juggling between exams of my double graduation or being sacked and thrown out of a job. I thought I handled it pretty well, until, my whole world started falling apart.

Right at the time when I thought I was happy enough, that I don't want anything else in life, and when I couldn't be better, there it was, standing right in front of me, looking me into the eye and telling me how wrong I am. At first, I didn't realize what was happening. I thought it is kind of a practical joke being played on me. Everything that I achieved, so far, was being taken away from my hands. I tried hard to keep my hands tight close so that nothing slips out of my hands.. but it felt as if my hands were not the one controlling anything.

Its always the hands of God, the Supreme Power, who is the one and only one who handle things for each and every one of us. He creates, grows, control and destroys everything- living or dead.
Well, the idea is that even when we think we are the one controlling our lives, its the life who is actually controlling us.

So, even when I cried, yelled, pleaded, I knew, it was not in my control to not let things go haywire in my life. I was desperate to bring things back to normal. The best part about all this was, it was not my fault. I wasn't suppose to feel all that. I was just doing what I was suppose to do.

I don't know how things came back to normal again. I didn't do anything. May be, not doing anything helps at times.

Life is a perfect player. When it gives you the ups and downs, it not only makes you strong enough to face them, but also gives you hope that after every night, there is a day and after every down, there is going to be an up again.

I think, thats why its said, "Such is life!!"

Vacation time - It ends so soon!

Vacation time gets over so soon. I knew it will be just for a week and I had a list of things I wanted to do. I told my family not to make an agenda for the week, I wanted to spend my time meeting the family members, sleeping and eating.

Little did I know, that this little one week will fly off so fast that I would have a very little time to do what I planned. Sure enough, I didnt sleep a lot, because I was jet lagged. I couldnt eat a lot, because of the change in weather and temperature. And, I was so tired and irritated at the end of it, that I couldnt meet anyone.

Are vacations supposed to be like that - rushed and quick? There was so much to do. I managed to strike off almost everything on my list. However, the main things - sleep, eat and relax, will have to wait for another vacation. Phew!

So long!

Is there really too much work?

People always call me workaholic. I work till wee hours of the morning. When asked, I have only one answer - "There is too much work and I dont have anything else to do anyway..". We talk about priorities in life. I understand that when my priorities will change, I will have to focus on other things, but work. At times, I wonder, is there really too much work? Why are the expectations like that? Why don't people say anything when we work till wee hours of the morning, and on the other hand, they expect us to work like that too. Setting up meeting requests for 2:00 AM isn't human, is it? Is humanity alive or all we can talk about is how much work we have? Do we think beyond project deadlines, meeting targets and tracking on plans?

Well, I am sure these words sound like coming from someone who is tired, over worked and disappointed. I guess, I need a vacation now. I am waiting for my vacation time, when I will be able to go and spend sometime with my family. Like I say, "Everyone can be replaced and no one is explicit." Its not that I don't like it here. Its good work, a good learning experience both personally and professionally.

If I am a workaholic, am I not suppose to say "NO" to work? Can I still work to my capacity and find my leisure time?

After asking too many questions, guess, I will go n do some more work and finish the tasks still pending on my to-do's list.

Adios!!

Are marriages made in Heaven?

How important is it to have a life partner? In a discussion with a friend on this topic, its evident, both of us were on the same page, agreeing to each other and nodding on everything.
Still, I ask myself this same question, each time my parents bring up the marriage topic. I am not sure what is the right age to get married. I am not sure who is the right person. There are so many things we are not sure about in life, like marriage.

While planning things in my life - studies, parties, travel or even marriage (now when I hear this so much) , I give attention to each and every detail, even a small little detail is very vital - what to study and why, courses of interests, places to party and eat and what to wear. In our contemporary Indian society, we also give a detail attention to what kind of guy is suitable for marriage.

But, if marriages are made in heaven, why are divorces made on earth? It scares me the most, to think of, first bearing all the hassle to get married and then to undo the mistakes already made. If marriages are made in heaven, then do God punish those who break them by divorce?

What is a divorce? It is not just a dissolution of marriage. It is a convenient solution for two individuals to live happily ever after separately because the partnership was not a "happily ever after story..". Then people get into an expensive arrangement to undo the mistakes they have already done.

Not all marriages reach that level, but most do. If the rate of divorce keep increasing each year, what will be the proportion of people who will remain married?

I know there is no end to this discussion, still, is it necessary to get married?