Brother: Nice wheels! How much did the car cost?
Sister: Great shirt! Gucci?
Father: How’s new job?
Mother: You look thin. Are you alright?
Month: Jun 2019
Who am I?
As an Instructional Designer, I am a full time Super Hero! I save the world from the boring, never-ending and ineffective training courses. I create learning material in simple, crisp and effective English and present it in an interesting manner that (I hope!) makes you hope for a Season Two.
I am a wordy person who is paid to ‘reduce the word-load on readers’! The irony reflects in my writing style that embodies “Less is more”. I mostly write about emotions and people.
Being a Start-up at motherhood means you get to hear loads of cribbing around the challenges.
Tiny Story: Insomnia
Mother (on the phone): I stayed up till 3 am waiting for the baby to sleep!
16 years later
Mother (to daughter): I stayed up till 3 am waiting for you to return!
Science
6 million+ years on land: Still finding new species of animals, birds and insects
3300+ years of sea faring: Still finding new marine animals
60 years in the space that houses billions of stars without a visit to any other planet or star: Claiming that there are neither aliens nor God
Tiny Story: Paint and Brush
Mother to daughter: Would you stop painting yourself? I just gave you a bath!
16 years later
Mother to daughter: Would you quickly finish painting your nails? We are late for the party!
Tiny Story: Inventing Stories
Mother: The ‘baba’ (old man) outside our door takes away naughty kids…
16 years later
Daughter: A girl at school has invited me to her home for a girl’s night out…
Loveless(?)
If I had to live the life of a historical figure, I would choose one who had never loved, to avoid the pain. But it is very difficult to find such a person in human history.
Answering Socrates (Read @Inkbiotic)
Inkbiotic had asked a few questions last week and I had been itching to answer them. So here I come…
1. What recurring dream do you have? Do you know why?
I often often see myself roaming around on a mountain road leading to a mysterious temple that has a lift that takes me to a place where loads of souls are peacefully going on with their lives… Or the lack of it! Not sure why I see this though.
2. If you could choose any name for yourself, what would you choose?
Dawn, for then I will be able to see the dawn (in a mirror) without having to wake up early
3. What’s the weirdest fact you know?
That ghosts exist
4. What’s a secret about you that no one would ever guess?
That I LOVE my alone-time (a rare occasion in my current stage of motherhood) since I am such a blabber
5. Do you prefer to stride or amble? Why?
Amble so that I can enjoy every sound and sight and journey is as memorable as the destination
6. Name a small thing that made you smile today?
I go to my roof daily to get a dose of vitamin D early in the day and see quite a few birds. Most of my life I had seen only sparrows, grey crows and rock pigeons, but this area houses so many different species of birds that I have seen a new species/sub-species after every couple of days since March.
7. What made you want to write or keep a blog?
Like every other human, my desire to be heard by willing ears
8. What was your best decision ever?
To start writing tiny stories (2-3 line stories)
9. What could have gone wrong today, but didn’t? It can be as serious or ridiculous as you want.
I could have woken up to find out that today was not Sunday but Monday, and I had overslept and missed work.
10. For a week you can have any job you want and be good and successful at it, what do you choose?
I would be a vet.
11. What’s the most inexplicable thing that’s ever happened to you?
I moved in a house where I had goosebumps the moment I stepped in. I felt an angry presence all the time. A few times, things changed their place/position on their own. I just reminded myself that everybody(?) had a right to live their own lives(?) and continued our peaceful(?) co-existence.
True Love
True love does not hold you back. It gives you wings and lets you fly so that you can happily return to your nest every day.
–Dedicated to my parents who urged me to fly
Kind-of Kind World
Most of the people tell me that the world is selfish and I should learn some tricks too.
But they had just given me an unselfish piece of advice and reminded me that most of the people in the world are still kind and caring.
Tiny Story: Face-off
In the face: Oh! What a darling baby! Where did you get this wonderful dress?
Back turned: That dress was so last year! And did you see her pudgy baby?
Life-Aim?
Being straight-aimed was never my best quality. Afterall, there is no straight path to find pearls in the ocean.
Tiny Story: Trip to zoo
Aunt: What did you see at the zoo?
Child: I saw a tiger, lion, elephant; and there were so many deer… The bear was black and it was walking on two legs… The monkeys had swings in their cages and they were…
Father: I saw my child laugh!
Not-so-bright
I prefer remaining not-so-bright, for the brightest star in the night looks a little lonely.
Short Stories | Fish-eye Perspective 