Just Imagine...

I cannot thank Siya enough for just being my inspiration. Every child has so much to learn from and this is what I have lately learnt from her. 

Imagine a life where all your time is spent on the things you want to do. Siya does not get fluttered by average marks, not winning, analyzing why she lost, nothing negative. She does what she wants to do at that moment. However, I do yell at her a couple of time but thinking back why, I realize because I would want her to spend time on things I like. I long for a life like hers where I simply do things that I want to do. Imagine if I could write a letter to my boss which reads "Dear boss, I would not need your service any longer as I have decided to do things my own way. Thanks for everything". 

Imagine that today is your final day of working for anyone other than yourself. What if—very soon, not in some distant, undefined future—you prepare for work by firing up a laptop in your home office, walking into a storefront you’ve opened, phoning a client who trusts you for helpful advice, or otherwise doing what you want instead of what someone tells you to do?

What I have noticed outside India more and in many different ways, thousands of people are doing exactly that. They are rewriting the rules of work, becoming their own bosses, and creating a new future. All you need is two things - freedom and value. Freedom is what we’re all looking for, and value is the way to achieve it. When you value freedom above other things, you’ll make different choices. Your priorities will shift. You’ll have more time for your family and more time for the hobbies you enjoy. When you focus on helping others, connecting your work to their needs, that’s when value is created. This is what it came down to for all of these people, and that’s how it can work for you too. No special skills, not a lot of money, but the willingness to imagine.

Happy Birthday Siya - 8 Years!

Time flies! Seems like just yesterday when you were born and before even I could realize you are 8! All I can say is that I am just so proud to be your mom. You have filled my heart with more joy than I thought was even possible. There is something that I very strongly believe in, everything happens for a reason. Me and your dad met, fell in love, got married and I always knew that we have met for something great, I just didn't know what it would be, and certainly didn't know that it would be so soon in our time together.  Our marriage has been unknowingly shaped for your arrival and how to carry each other in our weakest moments. 

Some years ago, I still remember, as I reclined comfortably on an examination room bed for a check up in a clinic in Pune, within a few seconds, I heard a sound I would never forget for the rest of my life – your rapid, tiny heartbeat. Your heart was beating so fast when I knew that you were almost a size or may be smaller than a humming bird. I couldn’t believe my ears, I heard life –precious and vital life. There was life inside me, a heart beating inside my womb! Accepting this grand responsibility came as natural to me as breathing, and, before you were even born, I had already fallen deeply, unshakably in love with you. Months later, as I screamed and screeched you into this world, all the blinding pain that accompanied your birth was silenced the moment I saw your face. Oh God, there was so much of drama going on in the operation theatre. Guess some army of doctors, heart monitors, pulse monitors, forceps, all looked like monsters to me with their faces covered in blue masses. But you and I were already in our own little world. Nobody could touch us, nobody could enter.

As I watched you grow, my heart expanded with each new step you took. And every time you fell, I felt the pain in ways only a mother can understand. There have been times I was so nervous, your first injection, your first fall from the beam, your big cuts in legs but you were so strong. When we brought you a selection of toys to keep you occupied, you smiled at me and said, "Wow, Mommy. I thought this was the worst day of my life, but now I know it's the best day ever." One silly little toy was all it took to change your outlook. I almost crumbled in the face of your courage. You move on, like the radiant pulse of energy and love that you've always been. You learned to read, write, swim, skate, act, dance, gymnastics and God knows what all. You think deep thoughts, groove on music, challenge me daily and surprise me constantly. You are unbelievable, you are my angle. From my childhood, I have been in hunt of fairies and never knew that my childhood question would be replied only on 6^th April, 2005. I miss you when I go to office or you are at school, yet I delight in your independence. To this very day, when you walk into the room, my heart beats for you.

My only child, you're just a few year away from being a teenager, but, still, I never pass up an opportunity to check in on you as you sleep. Your face – purity, your breath is all the peace I will ever need in this world. You are the greatest thing that has ever happened to me. Your life has given me something I will never, ever lose.











LOVE YOU SIYA !

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