Tick Tock

Now that I have crossed 50, Oprah says I am in the second puberty. Very true. I have emerged a new persona.....a new me.....a more confident me....who loves me ..who is my best friend..who thinks of me first....Its a great age, when you dont have to bother about what anybody else thinks of you....when you live for the moment......
Now that there are more years behind me than ahead of me I feel I qualify to give advice ..to the 20-30-40 year olds, especially the 20 year olds (read that as my kids). Be in the Moment. Stop stretching out for the ever eluding something out there...there will always be something more that you want...instead live the moment....savour it .....enjoy every minute, for it will soon go away. When you look back you must be able to recall with pleasure your gone moments...not struggle to remember them at all.....

OKva?

I read that article in TOI “8 steps to aging gracefully”

Pay attention to your breath: I do. I brush my teeth and gargle a full 2 mins twice a day and I do yoga regularly. Well ..almost
Connect with Nature: I do. Bosnia is God’s Canvas. I just need to look out of the window.
Spend time with your loved ones: I can’t. They are all far away from me. There is only one around me and he spends more time making money for Mr. LNM!!
Soothe your soul with sound: I do. I have heard more of Unni Krishnan, MS and others in these 4 years than I have ever heard in the last say 30 years
Seek out beauty: I do. Bosnia is beautiful, despite the bullet riddled houses
Make Amends: I'll skip that one. I don’t recall ever having done anything wrong!!
Do service work: I do. I am entirely at the service of my spouse.

So I am aging gracefully…I am all of 51 and my only problem is that my bones sometimes creak so loudly because I refuse to listen to them…..
My only confession…I dye my hair…maybe I should chop it all and allow that to age gracefully…only I think I will be disowned by my kids and spouse if I go bald in the bargain…

Still I am aging gracefully………

Confused.com

The health bulletin in TOI said "Total Strangers can make you happy" and this after a 20 year study!! lol!! ........I mean ......only people you love have the power to hurt you, isnt it? .....everybody knows that!! it follows then doesnt it, that a total stranger can make you happy?? Does it? I am confused!

Anyways, while on the topic of being happy is happiness the absence of sadness or is sadness the absence of happiness? Which one actually exists?

If only...

Dint feel like blogging, in fact dint do anything much other than watch the carnage on TV. I dont know what pained me more, the senseless killings or the media's insensitive reporting. The ghoulish pleasure with which they were reporting seemed that they did so in anticipation of the 130% rise in TRPs. And then came the comments of our pathetic politicians...Everybody seemed to be asking where is Raj, where is Bal Thackrey? But if you ask me their silence in all this was golden..Two less voices adding to the scum spewed by the politicians...God if only all these politicians were in a meeting in any of these two hotels...Maybe then India would have changed for ever ...for the better!