2020 - An unusual year!!

 2020 - An unusual year that will be remembered in the history and obviously not in a longing way.

This year brought with it, the so called Covid pandemic and disrupted every human's life in one way or the other in this whole world. 

Life of children changed with online classes becoming the source of interaction with the school teachers and replacing the everyday chores of going to school, meeting friends, teachers etc. This impacted to the extent that kids started missing the school and wondering when will they be able to meet their friends. Yes, these were the same kids who always had excuses for not going to school.

For professionals, working from home became the new normal and going to office, meeting colleagues became a fantasy. Now, everyone is wishing to go to office at the earliest.

Businessmen got impacted adversely at every level, would say!! Can't talk much about this category since I dont belong here :P

Apart from schedule changes, people were impacted financially, especially the daily wagers and low class people which arose lot of problems in people's life.

This pandemic period brought lot of people close and lot might drifted apart too because we started spending lot of time with each other and came to know newer sides of each other.

I started this post in 2020 but dint finish it somehow... and it is already 2021...

2021 is scarier than 2020... Last year was only about adapting to the new normals like work from home, online classes for kids, doing household chores all by ourselves, meeting friends and relatives virtually etc.. etc...

But 2021 is about getting scared ... how important it is to be alive and all other things have no significance at all...This year started fine but soon became deadly with this new variant of Covid coming into picture... Every family had one or the other person seriously infected .. people running for medicines, oxygen cylinders, hospital beds etc. People loosing more than a person in one family... the words like passed away, RIP, sad to hear, condolences... became most frequently used words... this year shattered the happiness of so many families... leaving nothing but sadness and despair behind...

Experts say it is all the doings of mankind that was brought on us... but so cruel? making kids orphan, leaving partners alone... simply depressing all around... 

Nature doesnt need humans but humans do... We know this, understand this but most likely fail to show it in our actions.. :( 

Request to God.. please stop this mayhem now!!!

Sentiments - Feelings

Feelings, once formed, comes out in some form or the other, else keeps on creating disturbance within. 

Hence, it becomes important to let out all the feelings, be it anger, sadness, happiness, fear, disgust etc. from the mind.

Now, how these feelings are formed? They are formed with every thought crossing the mind every second, every event happening around which is connected with that particular person. They are of different types which depict different emotions of humans. The most prominent ones(in my eyes would be) - happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust.

Happiness, is obviously the best feeling to have. All is good around this feeling, one might feel to be on cloud nine, depending upon the level of happiness.

Sadness, arises due to disappointment, loss or fear. Once you feel sad, the whole world seems to be coming to an end. None of the things matter anymore. But as rightly said, time is the biggest healer, eventually this feeling also fades away. Nothing seems to be forever, even these little emotions. 

Anger, the most dangerous one I guess. It is said that you need to suppress your anger for a better future especially for the sake of the relationships. But what are the side effects of suppressing it or hiding it? Have those people who talk to suppressing thought about it? It might be a way to preserve relations but what about oneself? That feeling which has developed will still fight to come out and will eventually come out in some or the other form. Similar category feelings like disgust, irritation etc. would also be tough to handle. 

I thought of a way to handle this, just talk to someone who can listen to you without ifs/buts or any questions in return. But then another questions arises, where to find that someone :( ?

If at all, you have someone who understands you at the core and knows when to listen, when to question, when to comfort, when to scold, you are the luckiest I would say. Somehow, I feel everyone has a child like traits throughout the life for some moments and needs someone to coax just like a child (may be many wouldn't agree on this). This doesn't mean that you are dependent on someone but emotions are such that you need someone at times just to make yourself feel better and be a better person eventually. Since if today someone comforts you, that person will leave on impression on your heart and you will automatically, reciprocate the feelings when time comes.

Not able to understand how God has created such complexities for humans. It is hard to comprehend but he created. Mind blowing!!!

 

Father's Day

Father's Day - official opportunity to celebrate the presence of one of the most important person in your life.

Though I have written about my father many times (secretly :P), today I want to write at length.

My papa, like every other girl, is my superhero, person whom I look upto for everything.

Professionally, he is an engineer but his versatile skills have helped him in making his mark in variety of fields like steel industry, designing the colonies out of a big land, construction of commercial buildings like school, manufacturing units etc. By choice, he learnt the principles of vaastu and can guide you how to place things in your house, yet another unique area.

As a father, he is been amazing, caring, loving and at times strict too ;). He is intelligent and judges every situation in 360 degree manner. He is a like a life saver for me in every situation. Whenever I have a problem and cant find a solution to it... It always him, I turn to. Because I know then my brain can rest and I can agree to whatever he says... :)

Now, as I have grown up (quite a bit now, in my late thirties), I have realized that he is the outstanding person I have ever seen in my life. He is gem of a person in all respects ( I know some people might think "papa hai to asia hi bolegi.."). But I have seen and met good number of people in my life now and no one could match to the standards of my dad. As a girl, obviously, I tend to compare every person to papa and then each time I feel how good, mature and sensible he is.

He knows how to nurture the relationships. Even as a husband, I can say my mom has no complaints against him (my mom is my best friend so I know this :P ). He has always supported my mother in every aspect of life...

He will go out of his way for people who need any help from him. He has taught us to be the change we want to see in others because we dont have the power of changing others. He always says go with the flow and take life as it comes. It will be easier to spend the life because he trusts GOD too much and you often hear him saying "God is great who will handle every problem of your life!!"

Someone said about papa that "a 2 yr old kid can also enjoy in his company and a 70 yrs old will also not get bored with him, he is the man of all generations". Feels too good to be the daughter of someone of this quality. I just hope I manage to keep his name high.

My parents are like my life support systems. They have always been there and one line of comfort from them fills me with new energy to face life.

May God bless both my parents forever!! I truly feel blessed to have such parents.