The Mind has a mind of its own!

I quit work six months ago and enjoy every bit of the taste of freedom that it gave me ..... I am free to do what I like, sleep as late as I want to, eat my meals when I want - where I want, catch up on my reading, wander the streets and shop impulsively at any time of the day, any day of the week .....

Then, yesterday, I walked into my old office for a visit ... and my Mind sent me powerful flashbacks of the time I'd spent there toiling away, listening to employee grievances, formulating strategies to keep employee performance on track and organizing and running events on a scale that I never thought I'd be able to pull off. And strangely, I missed the agonies of work! I missed the late nights spent worrying over presentations due, the documentation that I never seemed to get done because there was always someone who wanted their problems solved, the stress of ensuring that every minor detail was taken care of so that there was never a reason for anyone to complain ....

But wait a minute, weren't these just the things that drove me to go on a sabbatical? so what exactly was I missing .... oh wait, its just my Mind playing its games all over again!!

What is in a name, you say?

With lots of time at hand, today I decided to find out the meaning of my name. Turns out it means "beloved". I'm sure I am the beloved of my parents but that is not how I got the name!!

In our family, we follow a tradition that the first-born male and female of the family get the names of their paternal grandparents as part of their inheritance. The second-borns get their names from the maternal grandparents. If the parents deem it important to have more than two kids, they can be named after any Tom, Dick or Harry (thank goodness, I am not answerable to anyone on this :)). Being the second born, I got my name from my Grandma. I do not know the logic of this practice but it does make you seem special to be named after someone who is so dear to you.

The Art of Idleness!

I am supposed to be studying .... Is that why everything seems so fascinating suddenly? The bed seems to be calling out to me invitingly and the magazines scattered on the bedside seem just too alluring to be kept aside. There are not one but two movies playing on TV simultaneously, each one telling me not to miss out on its story. Facebook suddenly has the most interesting of posts and all my buddies seem to be online today. To top it all, today is the day I'm missing my family and feel like I just need to spend some time on the phone talking to them.

 No, I am using my willpower to stay away from all the temptations floating around. When I am meant to be utilizing my time studying, I just cannot idle it away in frivolous pursuits. I'm gonna sit down to my books. And that’s when the Power Goddess decides to oblige. .... power cuts have always been my excuse for not studying throughout the 'academic' years so how could I resist its charms now???

So dear blog, be thankful!!!! It is at the height of idleness that I come to you, and that is indeed a compliment considering the wide variety that I could have chosen from :)

And a blog is born ....

I am a late entrant .... splashing through the tried and tested waters that many have already discovered joy and satisfaction with  .... and I enter at a time when the whole concept of blogging is losing its appeal.


I do not know what it is that prompts me to start blogging today. Is it the thought that a new year is around the corner and I have nothing to show for it? Is it the fact that the 'writing of diaries' never progressed beyond a few pages each time because I always ended up losing them? {Oh yeah! a random search around my room at home can throw up a multitude of jottings on fresh diaries with the resolution to 'be committed to at least this one' that lie hidden among my toys and books and clothes and all the other endearing junk that populates the room}. Or is it just that I want to have a conversation with my computer and this seems like a good way to do it?

In any case, Here's to New Beginnings and to the hope that I can keep this going!!!