Sartorial Syndrome

Clothes clothes everywhere but not a one to wear !

 Sounds familiar? Yes I can imagine many people(read female population) nodding their heads in unison. Now don't start treating this statement as discrimintaion against fair sex. I would not do that to my own population. Nevertehless nowadays one has to be very aware of what one is saying or writing. For all of female population who think that I am exhibiting some discrimination by pointing them out , I offer my apologies with full heart. For ladies who are taking this in stride, I have my gratitude for them.

 

 I would like to call this common feeling of  dearth of clothes even if we are sitting on heap of clothes as "Sartorial Syndrome". Though this is 24x7 syndrome but the effects of this can be seen more explicitly in following situations-

• Party invitation from friend
• Wedding party
• Formal party of office
• Onset of vacations
• Birthdays
• Anniversaries
• Dates
• etcetra etcetra

I have just realised that I am getting into the never ending list so decided to put the magic word etcetra at the end. Please feel free to interpret this "etcetra" as per your situation.

 

I too have been sufferer of this syndrome since the time I don't even remember. This syndrome is not genetic in nature but highly contagious and solely depends upon external factors. The only proven treatment(temporary) for this is  immediate buying of clothes. Some scientific and logical people call this as impulse buying too. Well I would refrain from using this phrase. There is a simple reason for this - impulse is which happens with in a second ! Lo and behold...does our shopping end in minutes?I would give an award to any one who can prove that ladies can close shopping so quickly. Please be aware that I want complete evidence in order to give this award.

 

If people think that buying has done some cure, they are highly mistaken. Real woes start after getting the proud buy at home and then trying it, looking into mirror from hundred different angles and finally giving the verdict that the dress is not suiting or not good enough for body type !

 

Anyhow after multiple iterations , one dress comes at home and ofcourse it is used for the occasion. Now can anyone guess what happens after that.....

 

Yes , you are correct....it goes back into the heap and syndrome strikes back!

 

 

 

When Chips Are Down....

In our  life, we come across moments where we feel the best in the world and then we have those moments where we get into deep alleys of diffidence and sadness.There are times when we find ourselves in the tunnel without any light at the end. There will always be help in terms of friends, family and other near dear ones but nothing can compare to the inherent strength which we all possess but somehow miss to call or evoke it. This is the strength which keeps hope floating for us.

The other day I was listening to Mariah Carey's song "Hero". Beautifully sung and even more beautiful lyrics and message. I just love listening to this song. This song is about the strength which is inside us and which we are oblivious of .This is the song about finding that little light through darkness, finding that little buoyant force to lift you up, finding that wind beneath your wings when chips are down.

Wish finding that strength was as easy as listening to the song but if only wishes were horses we would ride them and ofcourse wishes are wishes and not horses! But you can try listening to the song and see if the mere listening works for you :-) Here is the link -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IA3ZvCkRkQ&feature=kp


Having said that it is not that an impossible task to find this inner strength. Though it can be herculean task but not at all  impossible. People have their own way of finding it. A little " Me Time" tossed with retrospection and introspection works for me and I get back on track.

Tell me if you have other "doable" ways of discovering stronger you through the vicissitudes of life.




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Candy Crushers

 Are you getting crushed by candies? If the answer is "Yes" and if I happen to be in your friend list then you can blindly count me on  the  candy crushers' side. Before you start venting your frustration of being crushed, let me give you few positive sides of  honouring the zillion Candy Crush requests awaiting your response. Few reasons why you should honour these requests-

• The Candy Crushers give you an opportunity to become saviours. We enable you so much that you get that power of giving LIFE to some needy people.What else can you ask for?  
• Just imagine that people are remembering you daily . 
• You are helping productive denizens of this world by keeping the unproductive denizens like us busy. This way we keep busy with crushing candies without interfering in the productive world of other side of population.
• You are spreading sweetness everywhere. Try to think the amount of fructose,Sucrose, Glucose you are spreading in world by enabling candy crushers. 

 

So next time you get a Candy Crush request - feel honoured , feel empowered and without any ado just keep accepting and honouring the request. After all we are just making you do your bit of charity;)

 

Happy Candy Crushing !!

 

Pressing right buttons at right time

In our day to day life we come across many people who seem to be always at right place at right time.The first reaction these people evoke in mortals like me is awe followed by a monologue...wish I could be this lucky .

Can people ride on luck every time? Is there something else also which makes them successful? May be some right decisions , some foresight  and yes of course some luck :). 

I think that these people press all the right buttons at right time in life.Though luck is an important factor in life but self assurance and self confidence also plays a big part in enabling people to press the right buttons.It is very easy to blame everything on luck but as they say  that opportunity knocks at your door only once.Wise people welcome the opportunity and make most of it while others just either  fail to recognize that or fail to put efforts to leverage it.

In a retrospect if people revisit decisions taken by them , they would certainly regret many of their decisions and would say if only it could have been done in other way. It happens with all of us. We have that tendency of looking back into past. Looking back into past is not a bad thing provided one just takes learning from there but it gets into a bad zone if people start living in it day out and day in.

I get in that regret zone quite frequently but off late I have made peace with myself !  I am trying to use my regrets as a teacher.


After all - "Mistakes are the biggest teachers which one can have in life ". I am pressing the right button for once and all by bowing to my teachers :).

Dharamsala....in the lap of mountains

Dalai Lama is not the only reason people should talk about Dharamsala.I know people would say Cricket Stadium is another one. Agree , but there are many other aspects of Dharamsala beyond Dalai Lama and Cricket stadium.

I have had a chance of observing Dharamsala very closely. Thanks to the  school vacations which gave me chance to spend my time  in Dharamsala with my grandparents.This is the place which is literally at the footsteps of mountains.If you start trekking up , It will take maximum of one hour to land your foot at one of the hills of lower Himalayas.The hills have little streams which turn to gurgling rivulets while their journey down the hill.Few steps up the hills and you get closer to clouds.You can see yourself walking in the clouds.The flora changes as you go up. One can see pine tree line getting changed into cedar tree lines as the gradient increases.

Dharamsala is also known for it's incessant rainfall.The rainfall brings that magnificent shine in flora.However in summers , Dharamsala can be quite harsh.It can get quite scorching in summers but the heats gives way to cool breeze as soon as rain arrives.Rain is quite a frequent visitor.This is the place which can boast about beautiful temples like Kunal Pathri  and Bhagsu Naag. Kunal Pathri is in the heart of pine tree forest.I am not sure of now but few years back it used to be like that. One had to trek through pine forest (Cheel gaadi in local language) to reach this temple. Bhagsu Naag is located in higher parts of Dharamsala. One can have beautiful bird's eye view of Dharamsala town on way to Bhagsu Nath.

Civil lines have some old nice looking palatial homes.It is home to many prominent people of Dharamsala. Kotwali Bazaar is the main market .Few kilometers up from Kotwali bazaar is Mecloed Ganj.This is a Tibetean center and one can shop his or her heart out here.It has wonderful eateries both national and international cuisine.You can not miss the confectionery shop by the name of Narojee's .It is there since British time.It still has old world charm to it.On way to Mecloed Ganj , there is a cemetery which is straight out from pages of Gothic Novel.The character of Dharamsala town is very different from the character of it's upper parts .Upper parts have been more taken by foreigners and it seems more of foreign land than Indian.
But whatever it is , Dharamsala still remains the quaint town which just takes pressure off you.

Are gadgets making us under utilize our brain

I have started struggling for words .Sometimes they just sit on tongue but  never come out :(  Has it been happening to you guys too. Well I can understand that I am not that young but I am not that old too  that I start forgetting stuff.

I gave it a little thought and after a while I realized that this is nothing to do with age. It is to do with practice.I think I have been not using my wits as I should have been. I have been just whiling away my time and doing absolutely nothing constructive. Though I certainly feel that life is not all about taking pressures especially when they can be avoided but  is always better to have one challenging task at hand  at a given point of time. It really stimulates brain and keeps brains and emotions in control.

We belong to always online kind of generation.Our reliance on gadgets (read smart phones/tabs ) is getting heavier day by day. For any single piece of information we just punch in some keys on our gadgets and we are served with express information . Even for doing simple math for day to day transactions , gadget comes as a savior. What a brain wreak we have become. We are not doing any mental calculations , we always have internet at a click away .Whatever information we want to seek , we never query our brain instead go straight to our phones.There is a lot of information lying in the brain unused as we are not even getting it used.What is the use of tools which never gets used so what is the use of accumulating information when you are not using it !It is obviously turning to fossil.

I get so amazed when I see how people of non internet era do calculations so fast and remember so.Even if they are carrying gadgets , their reliance on them is just for a voice call and nothing more than that.Unlike us who see gadget as panacea.

I have decided to decrease my dependency on gadgets from now on and start taking services of my own CPU rather than some artificial CPU .I have decided to start using less of gadgets for day today life.Starting with  remembering phone numbers of near and dear ones and dialing them by numbers instead of stored names. Saying bye to plastic money wherever I can , doing crosswords ,Sudoku ...

Lets see how far can I go !

Precious five minutes sleep..

Oh is it already time....how can i get five more minutes ? This is the first brainwave which strikes you in the morning.
One feels sleepy the most when it is time to get up? I am not the first one to state this paradox. I am just the humble follower of this philosophy. I am also one of many doing my math of getting extra five minutes every morning whenever my alarm clock goes off or someone is yelling at me for the umpteenth time to get up.

This is what I feel for my alarm clock in the morning -

And this is what my megalomaniac clock thinks...

Anyhow coming back to five minutes - the thrill which one gets by stealing five minutes for oneself from ones own time does not find any explanation in the realms of logic hungry world. Don't they say that curiosity killed the cat. Therefore somethings should be left without answers. What do you say ?

The feeling which you get by just thinking that you still have few more minutes to get up gives you some divine kind of solace.The moment you start you timer, 5 minutes seems to be big time but somehow when the alarm goes again after snooze....you start getting this familiar feeling .....Oh is it already time to get up...five more minutes please. ...and the cycle goes on and on.

These precious five minutes are actually not absolute but very elastic  five minutes. Elasticity depends upon the disposition of the person. These can extend in multiple iterations amounting to hour or hours .

What is the elastic limit of your five minutes?Mine is around 30 minutes :-)