Transforming Phoenix

 That day was not like all those days when Meera would sit in her lawn after winding up her online sales and sip her coffee while feeling at ease. The fear of losing her beloved in a freak incident as she had witnessed today had overwhelmingly occupied her mind. Meera was never a brave soul in cases of physical injuries, but today she had witnessed a road accident in front of her eyes and seen the helplessness of the victim and the repercussions that followed the whole family. The whole incident had made quite an impact on her mind and made her think about how God's plan for us may not be same as our thoughts or plans. Today Meera was not the careless soul she had always been, today she was living in retrospect of what could go wrong in life. The incident had seemed to have changed something inside her. Every situation we come across in our lives has a unique impact on shaping us to be our current self. Current self here implies to the average behavior and etiquette we display in t...

Rama was hurrying through her early morning household responsibilities and chores to run against time to be able to catch up with her office timings. A typical day in her life like most of us revolved around juggling between her home and work. Like many other days today was one of those days when you have been struck by a typical household storm the previous day.  Typically Rama would do up her chores and cherish her cup of tea in the garden all by herself and her beloved plantation. This was her moment of solace in the chaos. But, today was different. All the emotional chaos and traumatization that she had been bearing since a week was not able to avoid the household storm that she had to go through yesterday after work. All she could think of was last evening and it's impact on her peace of mind.  Rama kept pondering over the fact that inspite of all her peace keeping efforts some situations forcibly involve you into a unreasonable banter of dissatisfaction and distress. How...

  Everything that begins does have an end. The only static in life is UNCERTAINTY. This is both the best and the worst thing about life. Every day life gives us a chance to get up stronger and merrier and work to make this day count. Just one day at a time is all we need to make our living worthwhile is to make each day better than yesterday.  In tough times, before you go to sleep just pause for a moment to tell your self "This makes a day less from the dull phase of my life." Take a moment to thank the greatest universal energy for getting you past the sadness of that day. Wake up merrier and brighter. Identify the unbound peace and happiness that you are built up of. Never give anyone the power to disrupt your inner peace and well-being. Take responsibility for your happiness and take measures to protect your purity against the sinners and the sinned. Let the world see you as a glittering gem of happiness and mercy. Let us all be humane and make the world a better place to...

  FOOD FOR THOUGHT : The outside chaos never gave anyone peace inside. The fast paced and demandingly ambitious lifestyle that we live in and look up to has made it pertinent for each one of us to get involved in a rat race of our own. Running 24 x 7 mentally and worrying about every little thing is now the new normal. Each one of us wants to devote time to every social image creation, financial gains and liabilities, community affairs, family matters and many other things which may or may not be of any importance.  Amidst this all we overlook the most important responsibility i.e. our responsibility towards ourselves. We tend to overlook our own need for healing and nurturing our inner self. Everyone wants to be the best parent, the best child, the best employee, the best friend, the best cook, the best artist, the best of every field but what gets overlooked here is to be even an average healer to your own self. Ignoring the "me-time" and occupying it for other chores is th...

The recent outbreak of the COVID pandemic and the associated lock-down across the different parts of world have not only created a social and economic impact on the society, but have also deeply impacted the minds of one and all. The fast paced and outward lifestyles came to a sudden unprecedented halt. The sudden twist of events changed the scenario from a situation where time had been running out of our hands for a while now suddenly turned around into the current situation where the days have been passing home bound. The situation did create a panic mind-set to begin with because the human mind has the innate ability to resist sudden change. But as time kept passing this period of lock-down gave many a chance to explore and re-surface their hobbies and subdued interests which had remained buried somewhere under layers of  work stress, family pressure and social bindings since long. Finding time is a great feeling but finding time to rediscover yourself and finding a purpose in t...

The untapped unadulterated human mind has always been an innate rebel of bondages imposed over it. The human mind has this inborn intolerance towards being denied of freedom, being denied of opportunity, being denied of equality, etc.  Since the very beginning of our lives we start struggling to break the barriers imposed on us. A small child trips over his crib trying to break his limited reach. Does the exactly opposite of what is denied. Reaches out to grab and confiscate the forbidden things. All this, just to satiate the innate need for exploration and to break barriers that limit his reach. Human mind is a slave to none other than curiosity. Curiosity has the power to drive us to great heights or plunge us into the darkest of trenches. Tapping this immense power of the mind and channelizing it towards our growth is what can lead us to achieve great heights in our lives. The key ingredient for this is a balanced approach of the calm mind. Only the ones who are able to f...

Curiosity and contentment are the two most fundamental aspects of ones mind and conscience. The human mind can't be devoid of either of the two. Curiosity followed by contentment and the repetitive cycle of these two is what keeps the human mind running and the human aspirations fueled. A balanced approach between these two is of utmost importance to keep your true nature alive. In order to be balanced with nature, we first need to resolve the conflict between our curious self and the content self. Curiosity is what adds glitter and excitement to life. It may be curiosity towards ourselves, towards our surroundings, towards success in life or towards what lies on the other side of the fence that our life has offered to us. This curiosity is what fuels our desire for success. The element of curiosity in our mind fuels our aspirations and desires. On the other hand contentment is what keeps us grounded and gives peace to our soul. Irrespective of the curiosity factor, the con...

It goes without saying,  "Karma is a bitch." Ashlekha sighed. Hoping for a miracle to save her from this situation which had risen out of no concern of her. But was somehow blamed on her doings by the higher ups in the company. Talking to herself Ashlekha said,"I know it is the doing of one of those two self appreciating guys who would have taken all pains to sow the seeds of contempt against me." Ashlekha was a genuine and straight forward person, but what put her into many awkward situations was her blunt behavior. She always had a combination of hard work and smart work to put her through situations. She was a dedicated worker with high morals. At this moment what was eating her up within was the fact that she was unable to control a situation which had nothing to do with her initially but now had somehow been totally blamed on her. Being a diligent worker she could not take it to be called the irresponsible one. A knock on the door distracted As...

"Just when you think you have got it all settled..... It's time for the wheel of time to take up an untoward twist. "                                                -Unknown We have all been witness and have experienced a point in time when every now and then we are either at the peak of joyous satisfaction or the epitome of a hopeless heartbreaking situation.  These are two vividly recognisable and memorably identifiable times that keep approaching us in our daily lives and day to day interactions. In such times our mind and heart reach upto a soulful halt in our enthusiastic self and untapped flow of our energy. These are the times that make us slow down and question the very existence of our problems and the remote possibility of finding a solution. This is actually when the plan of the divine settles or totally unsettles our immediate plan regardi...

It was 2 a.m. and like most of the days the Kapoor household was lit up again late at night. It was routine for their daughter Amaira to be woken up at odd times based on her flight schedules. Amaira was a pilot for one of the prestigious airlines. She was a dynamic and energetic girl with dreams of traveling the world. So she had already come to the decision of being a pilot in her adolescent years and was very passionate and eager to make her dream come true one day.  “Have you packed some of my special cookies too?" asked her mother.  "Mom, I'll be back in three days so don't bother. " Mrs. Kapoor walked into Amaira's room with a small box of cookies.  She began placing them in Amaira's bag as she spoke, "Share them with your co-workers. They will be finished before you know it. Moreover you can eat these when you get bored of the hotel food." Amaira glanced at her mom in silence. And turned back to pinning her bad...

It was a usual work Wednesday. But, there was much excitement to the day as Thursday and Friday had been declared as holidays and it was going to be a four day long weekend. Maria, Parin and Eva had planned a vacation in the lap of nature for which they were going to leave tonight. This was the reason for an extra gleaming smile on the faces of the three girls today at work. They had planned to go to Lansdowne; a breathtaking hill station in the beautiful state of Uttarakhand. It was going to be a 7 hour drive into the hills. Parin was specially interested in capturing the beauty en-route so the girls had planned to travel back during daytime. Eva had bargained this deal by emphasizing that this way they would reach Lansdowne all fresh and energetic and they can catch up on the scenic beauty en-route while returning. After work Maria and Parin had already reached back to their flat and had already started finalizing their luggage for the weekend. The girls had made their own ...

Rajesh had been sitting on a wheel chair in the waiting area with a painful leg after getting an X-Ray of his ankle done. He was hoping for everything to be just alright as he had an upcoming presentation today and thereafter he had to travel for an important business meet. Rajesh had hurt his ankle as he had slipped and fallen over a flight of stairs early in the morning. So, now he sat at the hospital grumbling to himself about his idea of losing weight by running up and down the stairs that had struck him three days ago. "Seema" Rajesh called out to his wife "Hmmm.." she replied while scrolling through her phone "Just a minute, let me call the maid so i can ask her to come later." Seema got up and moved to the corridor as she made the call. Leaving Rajesh once again with his thoughts. Rajesh had been implementing his idea of running up and down the stairs and the past two days had somewhat gone well for him as he had been able to achieve this ...

It was a cool summer evening and Radhika was leaning out from her balcony looking down. There were young children playing in the park. She stood there looking at them and thinking in retrospect how stress-free life was as a child. Their giggles were stirring up the emptiness she was feeling within. She wondered how easy was joy and laughter and yet she could not find joy for herself. Radhika had been a very lively kid, the leader of her group of friends. Her days as a child started with her mother waking her up for school as she threw all her qualms to bargain missing school out for yet another day. None the less, she ended up going to school but that never deterred her undying love for a holiday and she tried all the tantrums each and every day. At school Radhika was a studious, naughty and talkative child. After coming she would finish all her homework and rush out to play with her friends. At school, home and in the playground she had always been a very energetic and ra...

At the airport..... Tara was rushing through the crowds trying to finish her boarding formalities so she could sit back and update others about her forthcoming travel. She quickly finished her check in and was now waiting in the lounge for her boarding announcement. Without wasting much time the first thing to be checked off her list for the vacation was to put up her selfie with a Starbucks coffee cup in hand with an update to let the world know of her upcoming trip with her girl gang. So Tara bought herself a coffee and sat in an appropriate chair to get the best view of the lounge, herself and of course the coffee in hand. *Click* And the next moment she updated her Facebook and Instagram acquaintances about her excitement. Soon the boarding was announced and she reached New Delhi where all her friends had planned to gather to catch an onward flight to Phuket. The recent commonality among all of them were their social media updates besides the mutual likes and c...

While hurriedly pacing up and down the living area "Aren't you nervous?" said Priya Glancing at Natasha sitting by the window just gazing out and sipping coffee. Natasha looked at Priya and asked with raised eyebrows "Nervous? Over what?" "Aren't you meeting Adi's sister tomorrow?" "Yes, but how is that supposed to make me nervous?" Saying this Natasha adjusted the pillow supporting her back against the wall and went back to sipping her coffee. Leaving Priya surprised by the composed response. Priya started again "Are you going to take a gift for Adi's sister?" "Didn't think of that.. May be some chocolates" The calmness of Natasha's responses was unnerving for Priya who seemed to be more perturbed by the meet tomorrow. "Natasha are you really so cool about all this?? Doesn't it bother you that your future sister-in-law meets you tomorrow for the first time? What if she doesn'...