Happy Holidays

In these few days in December the air smells different, everything around me is beautiful. I just have the urge to smile at people, be thankful for all this cheer around me and something in me wants to give to all my near and dear ones.

We had a major snow storm last week which deposited 20-25 inches of snow all around, this is generally bad but this season makes you look at the snow and appreciate the beauty of white, along with the green and red Christmas colors.

You drive by, and people’s houses are decorated with lights. You step into the mall, and you have Christmas songs all around, people with gift bags in their hands finding the best gift for their loved ones. You switch on the radio and it is again Christmas songs, no more NPR for the month of Dec. Here is an example of irony of the situation: I was driving Saturday morning at 7am for classes, it was snowing pretty heavily, roads were not cleaned up, I was skidding at times even at 20-30mph, my car radio was on and they were playing “let it snow, let it snow, let it snow” and I did want it to snow and I was happy.

This is the time of the year, when things slow down, we let ourselves take the necessary break and reconcile with past year and recuperate for the coming year. Winter, Snow, Christmas, New Year, Lights, Loads of People, Love, Forgiveness, Hope, and Wishful thinking are all the ingredients that make this time of the year special.

Wishing you all and myself a very happy and loving holiday.

Change in the Concept of my Blog

This blog was started on the start of our journey of relocating back to India in Aug 2007. This blog’s main interest has been to discuss our ups and downs associated with returning back to India (R2I), and sadly also returning back to America (R2A) in Aug 2008. This blog depicts our dreams, our wishes, our realities and our failures. This blog was meant for all our friends and family, whom we miss dearly but due to the distance or time difference, it made it impossible for us to stay in touch and tell our story in person.

My blog has another flaw, which I promise and would be my resolution to correct in the coming year: Inconsistent blogging. This single reason can get everybody to lose interest in reading anything that I have to say or discuss, and do I blame any of you: No. I had asked many of my friends time and again, if they read what I wrote, and once out of twice their response would be: “Did you write anything new?” I want to work to improve on this aspect; I want all of you to expect again that there will be regular posts from me, every Sunday. When you take the time to come and visit my blog; I am obligated to fulfill my side of the bargain of being there for you. My promise.

This blog’s central theme of “dream to live” should never change, because that represents my life and me. The days and months and years when I forget this basic idea, I am no longer happy or have the desire to wake up in the morning and lead a life.

Dreamscapes are allowed to change with time; things that were the most important slowly fall to the priorities of other important things. My life is on the change mode too, at times I do not want to acknowledge this change, but does time ask my permission? My blog has been many a time about the love-hate relationship that I share with India. This will still be the central theme with phases of not just my relationship with India, but all of yours. Our life consists of many mundane things, but taking time from them and discussing these mundane activities with friends over drinks and food, no longer make them silly and boring. This is the aim of my blog. We talk and discuss for long hours, most of the talks maybe wasted, but what if one of them actually clicks, what if we understand ourselves a little better, what if we find happiness and meaning sometimes?

Please help me in coming up with great blogs for all of you, from all of you and many more to join us in the journey of this blog. This would be a challenge from the first Sunday of 2010 for a year to tell stories about all of you, your dreams, my dreams and all of our lives.

My new years resolution would have to be: “No more Inconsistent Blogging”.

There is no fun writing, when there is no one to read.

I write for all of you.