Back to Blogging!!!

Hello everyone!! It has been almost 10 years for me since I last blogged. I won’t say that I didn’t miss it. Life has taken almost 360 degrees shift in these years and the girl who was in her college writing deepest thoughts about her life and the lives she witnessed, is now in early 30s. After a doctorate, marriage and a child…I had started believing that I would never be able to resume writing in this lifetime. But as is said…everything is achievable in this lifetime only.

Life has been running on a critical path all these years. I was quite active blogger during my stint at USA attributing the lonely and mechanical life there. I felt the need of communicating and connecting to people. Blogging happened by chance and gave me tremendous satisfaction to express myself, write about how I see life and the stories of many people crossing my path. And change which was imminent after moving back to India promised a new horizon for writing and posting. But as they say…life surprises you when you least expect it. Reading books crushed under job pressures and writing buried under mundane life affairs. I forgot that I even had a blog.

I was an avid book reader 10 years back and I am feeling bad that I haven’t read any new books in these years. All I read was research papers for a doctorate degree, books on pregnancy and childbirth and ofcourse project reports and documents for an unexciting job. And last week when I felt I should start to read again, I picked up my favourite book from shelf….”Tuesdays with Morrie”. I refer this book as my life saviour in all times. An office colleague at US suggested me this book and it turned out to be a life changer.

“Tuesdays with Morrie” brings the essential pedestal to any writer’s block and to any life stuck in worldly interests. Usually, we humans happily accept all the conventions of life set by and according to societal norms and our previous generations. And why it shouldn’t be…there is a set rule of happiness for almost 90% around us. Study, behave well, write your competitive exams, get a job, get married, have kids and bring them up, live life as normally as possible and then one fine day…hand over the heritage of your life and experiences to the younger generations for them to similarly follow your footsteps. I sometimes wonder and ask myself in the early hours of morning when I retrospect my life…Is it what I want to leave as a legacy for my child? Live as I have lived? Think as I have thought? And perceive life similar to my perceptions? And I do not agree with my own.

I do not wish my child to be part of an unhappy crowd with all the negative kind of perceptions about his surroundings. I want him to experience, fail, experience again and fail again till he discovers his calling. I prefer a happy child on a successful one at the end of my life. I wish to tell him that it is about breaking the barriers and challenging the conventions. It is about following your heart and soul. There is more to life than everyday routine. And that is where your true happiness lies. On a finishing note….as Morrie rightly said in the book “If the culture doesn’t suit you, don’t buy it. Create your own culture.”