My first blog post is up, FINALLY!

This comes after years of planning, procrastinating, replanning, talking about it, more procrastinating, more talking, more planning, finally a push from a dear friend and voila!

As I am figuring this out, I will stick to traditions by penning down why, why now?

To me, being useful took precedence over finding “happiness” and I finally have made peace with what I've come to understand — happiness is not found at the end of every struggle, but from being useful throughout. One of my biggest fears is — fading away while minding my own business. Come to think of it, while unsolicited advice is seldom welcome, sharing lessons is a huge help to those looking for help. There is no end to what one can learn with an open mind.

I grew up in a small town, raised by traditional, hard-working Indian parents and the constant expectation from me, their firstborn, was to study well, get good grades, read a lot of books, get a well-paying job, marry a nice boy from a good family, have kids, be a good wife and mommy, live up to expectations, and abide by “traditions”. For the most part of my childhood and teenage-life, that's exactly what I was. Soon after, to their utter dismay (initially, although they are quite proud of the woman I am today), I went astray and began to question everything, did things I never thought I would, made a lot of mistakes, learned a lot of lessons, and that continues even to this day.

When I share my little stories with the people I meet, most are quite interested, some are amused, and a few think I’m quite foolish. Each of them is both right and wrong in their own truth, I both agree and disagree with them and in the process, I discover so much more about the world and people around.

This little online world of mine will largely be dedicated to these people, experiences, mistakes, lessons, food (of course!), books, movies…..! and I hope you have a good read.