Quote Challenge- Day 3 of 3

I often visit this particular children's home and I see that many people sponsor the meal on special occasions, like their children's birthday's or their wedding anniversaries, or in memory of their parents. All you have to do is write out a cheque and specify your choice of day. Very noble you may say, but is that really enough? The staff usually ask the donors if they would like to mingle with the kids, and it shocks me that most people say 'no', they think they have done enough by just donating money. They cannot bear to move around the corridors with the kids or bother serve them food! 

But I feel that the kids here need love more than they need food on their plates. The first time I went here, I told the kids a story, and since then they have known me as the "story akka". Whenever I visit, they insist that I tell them a story. Nowadays, I insist that they tell ME a story! We have quiz sessions, like the one in the picture on the left. There are some really bright sparks who know all the answers! There's one tiny five-year-old, who insists on singing to me whenever I visit! And she learns a new song every time just for me! 

This picture on the right was taken during one such lunch hour, by the parents of the little girl who walks with me. The little girl shared her birthday with me, and her parents who had come to donate, asked me if I could take her with me and talk to the kids. She shook hands with the kids as I told her the names and the kids looked thrilled. I wish more people would realise that just donating is not enough. Of course, money can buy a lot of things for these kids, but they also need love, and the hunger love for that is much more.


         
This inspires my quote for the last day of the challenge.

 "The Hunger for love is much more difficult to remove...
          than the hunger for bread"

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Thank you Parul, for nominating me, so that I could share these quotes through my blog. I am not nominating anyone today, but if any of my readers want to take it up, please do, and let me know you are doing it!

Here are the rules- (but feel free to break them!)

This is what the 3-Day Quote Challenge is all about.

1. Post one of your favorite quotes (different quote on each day) on three consecutive days. The quote can be from your favorite book, author, or your own.
2. Nominate 3 bloggers to challenge them.
3. Thank the blogger, who nominated you.

Quote Challenge- Day 2 of 3

Today's quote is dedicated to my crazy gang of friends! We are together for the past 15 years, and the gang of six expanded to 12 after everyone got married, and then to 18 after everyone had their first child and eventually with the second kid, we are now a gang of 24!! And here's the quote-

                                             "Good friends don't let you do stupid things... Alone!!" 

That skull sitting on top our friend's head belongs to a bison, and guess what we did when we found it?  Yea! Exactly what is visible in the picture!! That's how crazy my gang is! This picture is about 15 years old!

This was supposed to be a new year groupfie...but that perfect shot kept eluding us... hundreds of shots later, and in the melee to keep clicking we almost missed the strike of midnight!! 






Fast forward 15 years, spouses and kids later, the gang is now 24 member strong, but the craziness continues! This picture was taken at 12 midnight...in the middle of the road...letting the street lamp illuminate our faces!!

On Day Two I nominate these three awesome bloggers- Kavi, Rajalakshmi, and Ajay to share their quotes with us...

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This is what the 3-Day Quote Challenge is all about.

1. Post one of your favorite quotes (different quote on each day) on three consecutive days. The quote can be from your favorite book, author, or your own.
2. Nominate 3 bloggers to challenge them.
3. Thank the blogger, who nominated you.

Quote Challenge- Day 1 of 3

My elder one, all of 11, is away for a Karate tournament in Chennai. This is the first time he is on his own, with just his team for company. The karate master has completely banned talking on the phone, except for once before bedtime. He called me up last night and the first thing he says is,

"Mamma, I am missing you, and I just wanted to hear your voice." 

It just melted my heart to hear that! Almost brought a lump to my throat. A mother's voice continues to be the most reassuring sound for a child, no matter how old he is, isn't it? And that is exactly what inspired the quote for today...

             A child may grow out of a mother's lap, but never out of her heart!"

Here's a collage of pictures of my first born, smug on my lap, clinging to me like he'd never let go and then all grown up and ready to fly! 

Thank you Parul for nominating me for this wonderful challenge. I have turned to quotes too many times to keep count of it now! And there is always that one perfect quote which totally sums up what I have in mind! 

On day one I nominate these three awesome bloggers, Chicky, Roshni and Devika to share their quotes with us...

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This is what the 3-Day Quote Challenge is all about.

1. Post one of your favorite quotes (different quote on each day) on three consecutive days. The quote can be from your favorite book, author, or your own.
2. Nominate 3 bloggers to challenge them.
3. Thank the blogger, who nominated you.

Undo..

It seems Google added a new feature called the “undo” button to the G-mail account. You can set the timer at 5, 10, 20, or 30 seconds and it gives you just enough time to undo an inadvertently sent mail and avoid an ‘oops moment’ later on. How convenient!

So, in case you are terribly upset about the unequal treatment meted out to you by your boss, and in a fit of rage you happen to type and send him an unplanned resignation letter just in the heat of the moment, and realize the consequences of your action just a second too late, AFTER you have hit that send button….do not panic! Google uncle has ensured that you can quickly undo that action before it has the chance to escape out of your reach. Wow!

You are fuming at your boyfriend for ignoring you? No problem! Set your timer for 30 seconds, shoot him a nasty mail, send it and then count to 29 seconds before you press that magic ‘undo’ button, if your anger did not subside by then, that is! Fair enough right? Google baba ki jai!

I have been guilty of sending mails at the drop of a hat, sometimes at the most inappropriate times, sometimes when I am not in the best of my moods, sometimes when I have written the most should-never-have-written-this kind of words, and more often than not, the minute I have hit send, I have regretted sending those mails! And by then, the damage would be done, and there would be nothing more I could do about it. But not anymore!

Sometimes I wish my mouth had an undo button. I could say all that I wanted to say and then undo it. And everything would be back to the beginning of the conversation, like, I never said any of those things! Imagine what a boon that would be for motor mouths like me!  

There have been some moments I wish I could undo. Some really embarrassing moments, some painful moments, some hurtful moments… and an undo button could make all that come undone, wipe the slate clean, get back to status quo. I had this absolutely beautiful and precious relationship with someone, and one confession, (that I could have done without) soured everything between us. There have been times I have desperately wanted to erase that day from my life. I have wished innumerable times for things to get back to normal, knowing that things will never be the same again. Yesterday, I happened to chance upon reams and reams of g-talk history between us and reading them made me smile, laugh and cry all at the same time. I smiled at the heaps of information we had shared between us, I laughed at our wacky jokes that only we could be capable of cracking, and cried at the loss all of this and more. Such easy conversation, so much fun, the closeness, the trust, being at each others beck and call, the friendship, all gone….whooosh.…just like that. Like droplets of water on a hot pan. We patched up, but like they say, the crack remained. The distance just grew, conversations grew rarer, the frequency of being in touch grew longer, the awkwardness began building up and as much as I tried to jump and vault, the pole kept falling short of taking me across the finish line.

These are the moments that make me wish life had an undo button too. For now, however, we will have to make do with the one Google has given us!

A new chapter...

We all go through various stages in our lives...From a stage where we have no wants, to a stage where wants dominate the needs, from a stage where needs dominate the wants to finally where you have no needs at all...there are times when you roam in search of love, and at other times love roams in search of you.. And somewhere along the way, the twain meet and intersect your vector for wants and needs giving it a totally new meaning. 

I find myself at that crossing now...and there is an increasing urge to jot down my thoughts about that path. Here is where I have chosen to write it all down. A new Blog titled-

                                                                   " My Blue God "

This is not a Blog that has anything to do with religion, rather it is my quest for spirituality. An attempt to delve deeper into the soul, find meanings, and have my questions answered. I have chosen Krishna to be my guide on this journey (who else can it be!) and it is holding his hands that I take my first steps forward.

Do join me if your vibrations and visions are on the same path. I would love to have you on that space too! 

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my heart where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”- Rumi