rebirth

My journey of “eradicating unruly eye brows forever” began years ago ,( my college first year to be exact) when a bunch of my seniors dragged me to a local beauty parlor to get me introduced to eye brow grooming. I was a “ brow-virgin ”!! Till then I was blissfully ignorant of how much difference a bunch of neatly arranged, painted and gelled –facial hairs- would make in ,my overall appearance .Little did I know that being on a hotseat with a so called eyebrow grooming professional , who was pulling off “stray hairs” (( eyebrow maintanence jargon!)) would eventually turn into a personal obsession and take over my life! The obsession that began almost a decade ago , slowly turned into a passion and eventually into a communal service. I’m a eye brow stylist ! Yea, that’s right. I style brows for strange people i meet, whose fur above peepers irk me so much that i cant help! but reach out for my tweezers. it jus ends up being a free service! . In other words , I reveal...

something got me wondering about which point of our life are we actually grown up? From what I have learnt so far, age has hardly anything to do with it. So what exactly are the milestones to growing up? Do we have to “Act” grown up inspite of feeling young and restless? The reason for this I suppose is that we get hooked to a certain point or phase, sometimes events of our life that are defining points. After which we grow up in alternate ways. Mostly physical. Our mind stops evolving because there are issues we haven’t dealt with. Only after we achieve closure do we encourage free flow of thoughts and hence actions. Does a 50 something year old person, who is issueless, been through bad string of relationships and is probably still living with himself, have to act the same way as a 50 something year old grandpa who dotes on his young grand children ??? Why do we expect people to behave “their age” when there is no appropriate age like behavior? Why do we get scandalized when...

Maya exists only to evoke feelings and emotions. One learns important lessons of life by going through such emotional turbulence. This does not mean that the more turbulent ones life the more they learn. Learning is what we make of it. We can learn something new all the time. All it takes is a little bit of observation and the right inference skills. Which is where maya comes in. maya is illusion. Its created to cause fluctuations in a persons mind. To convince or confuse. The maya is not the perception. Its jus the dramatics involved to get to a point.Ideally to achieve nirvana we are often told to lead a detached life. Remaining detached is the output , but a very misconstrued one. We think remaining detached means not to attach oneself to anything/one for the fear of creating a new inter dependency. detachment doesn’t occur overnight. One cant jus wake up! And decide to have detachment along with morning caffeine! It’s end result. One must go through the emotional rollercoaster th...

The soul is the cumulative record of the consequences of the action undertaken by the choice of the conscious mind. Its not the conscious mind. The conscious mind is the “ free will” depending solely on the nature of the person. The nature is defined by effects the past. The mental imprints We cant change the past but we can make a future. We can change consequences and make our lives better The trick is to think of a picture thats lucrative for us, and work a life around it. Slowly and steadily built a world around the people we value. Love is not to be confused with the valuation of a person. They are different. Love is term given to an emotion arisen from compassion.

The humble truth 14 August 2010 17:33 Failures can be very tricky to decipher. If taken positively it could serve to be a stepping stone for success but if god forbid, it takes the dark route , it leads to extreme levels of depression, with anger, self doubt, guilt, disappointments acting as milestones. Here my story as an example. One fated day, when my dad was in town and as usual stayed at his new "den" , I received a message from my agent, asking me if id like to audition for a strange yet international fashion week. The text read dress code to be hot shorts and tube tops! The seed of skepticism had been sown. I was apprehensive to even respond to the message . So I pushed it for later considering it was scheduled for 14th aug .a week after the text! But as luck would have it, she called me right after waiting for 10 mins and seeing no text on her phone she placed a call. And requested me to audition. I agreed. I woke up at 10.30.was wide awake at 7 b...