Take a pledge this Dasserra:
- Decide the dates for meeting parents staying away
- If by chance your parents are staying away from you, fix minimum two to three of these days every year for meeting the parents:
- Your own birthday
- Your wedding anniversary
- New year day morning
- Holi
- Raksha-bandhan
- Makar Sankranti
- Independence/Republic Day or
- Any date suitable to you every year
Check whether you have any one of the following:
- You have stopped long walks, though you are not physically unfit.
- You have started eating more than you were eating for last few years.
- You have stopped learning new things and studying.
- You have started counting your assets and bank deposits.
- You have accepted and started liking your obesity and big abdomen.
If any one of above is "YES", you are mentally an OLD-PERSON needing mental care or your end is imminent.
I say, do not remove shoes outside the house!
People expecting or demanding you to remove the shoes outside their entrance must be sure of a clean and smooth walkable floor, or they should provide an alternative disposable pair of shoes/slippers to the visitor.
What do you say?
Facebook activeness demands offering/sharing your views and getting the responses from your FB friends.
If you do not share anything, all you are left with is responding your friends views.
Our recent tour of Kutch landed an interesting coincidence. I (Dr Bharat Desai), my wife Dr Bhavana, and our friends Dr Vijay Desai, his wife Meena Desai, Bepsi-ben and Villoo-ben made three nights and four days plan for Kutch - Bhuj.
Time spent in reading the newspapers and magazines we buy regularly:
Most of the morning passes with newspapers and the rest of the available time is spent in reading magazines we have subscribed. Is it really worth? How much reading time allotted to both is ideal?
Friends and friendships in a freeze:
If you did not have any meeting, letter-exchange, SMS or phone conversation in the last 365 days (one full year) with your friend, it means you are not considering any need to do so.
I consider such relations 'frozen' and reopening them may not be that simple for such a taken-for-granted relation.