Tag: Being yourself

If you are progressive, reasonably open-minded like me, and believe in letting people live their own reality, it’s very natural to think of yourself as inclusive. Before we move on with this blog, let me clarify what I mean by being inclusive. – In short, it’s countless small things you can do to make someone […]

Lockdown is hard on everyone – for different reasons. Not only are we being restricted in our movements, but also in our social interactions, some people haven’t seen family members and friends for months. However, before lockdown started we were all under different kinds of pressures which centre around the goals we had for ourselves, […]

Since the lockdown started in March 2020 we have all be piling more expectations onto our already overburdened shoulders. Many of us have said to ourselves, “I should use this time at home to …” followed by a series of goals such as get fit, write that book, finally sort out the loft. The list […]

There are two more posts in the ‘expectations’ series coming your way. I’ve been distracted a lot by other things happening and before I knew it, focusing on being mindful about writing a post resulted in this post 😉 Most often, when we hear the word Mindfulness, our immediate thoughts head to meditation. We imagine […]

From family, the expectations begin early. Sometimes right from our childhood. ‘You are a child; you need to do what you are told,’ or ‘Girls don’t laugh loudly,’ or ‘boys need to hold it all in.’ As we grow old, they just get compounded, ‘You have to top the class to get a job’ to […]

Have you ever imagined what would be like showing up to a board meeting wearing casuals? Or telling your family you’d rather spend major holidays like Christmas/Diwali alone with a book and a blanket? Or telling your ‘well meaning’ relatives that you don’t want to get married and have children? Yeah, I know the mantra […]

काल करे सो आज कर, आज करै सो अब | पल में परलय होयगी, बहुरी करेगा कब || (Finish tomorrow’s task today, And today’s task right now. When would you finish them, If the world ends next moment.) Early millennials like me grew up reading this couplet from a renowned poet Kabir Das. I was […]