Update - Live a little more, care a little less.

This is interesting...blogging has become so deserted these days. I was thinking the other day that I dont write anymore which led me to check out other blogs, some interesting people I used to follow on blogger. I even remember waiting on some of these blogs where I used to wait for fresh updates, perspectives and learnings. Sadly now these "bloggers" (including me) have become twiterratis and long deep blogs have been cut down to strong opinions expressed in 280 character tweets.

I do miss writing though, looking at the day gone by and making things "profound" enough for the the world to read.

On a completely unrelated note to the above and just to jot down some updates where I last left this blog, I decided to pen down something.

Life has moved.

I feel more responsible now,always something or the other running through my head, almost pressured to achieve what you set out for when you started.Its funny that I always imagined how I would be at late 30 something and I am equally amused that even though its nothing like I imagined, I can now definitely relate to a lot of things you expect when you get to this age - the responsibilities and expectations Life has from you around this time, my friends, are "killing",to say the least.

 Dont get me wrong, Life right now is not all bad - it has its fun moments, success and high points, friendships you can count on and family whom you feel most close to at this age. But yea...there is always that slight tinge of a feeling that keeps asking - if given a chance wont you want to go back to the old times and your younger self? Live a little more, care a little less.

Mumbai. What has happened to you?

Bloody mess everywhere... people,  people and more people. Crowd, crowd and even more crowd. 

Before you judge my rants.. let me give you a context and background for reference.
I have been born and brought up in this city and come from a working middle class grown over the years to the so called and nominated "upper-middle class" household in Mumbai. I have seen this city for over 30 years and have lived each day breathing the air here. My parents have always found an attachment to this city, knowingly so, because this is the city that fulfilled their dreams and has accommodated them, taught them, gave them opportunities as also consoled them in times of distress. They have been so attached to this city that even though we primarily hail from Goa, I was always asked to look for opportunities in Mumbai and advised to get myself educated here and make a career staying in Mumbai. While they weren't against me moving out, for them it was "Where else will you get what Mumbai has to offer? Everything best that you need is here... Education... Job...Bollywood... opportunity... its all here!" And honestly, growing up I could relate to that... why go somewhere else when all you need is here... closer to home... closer to family. 

But I feel that over the years, we have stretched the rubber more than we should have. We are somewhere taking this city for granted and our ignorance has cost us dearly. Look around you, is this what you really imagined living in?

Someday it will all make sense...

Life Lessons

Let it go.Just let it go.

In Life,not every pitch is a potential sale.

#LifeLessons

Words to live by.

"Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth.

You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them.
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble." - Bill Watterson

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