Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Stuff and NONSENSE!
Monday, January 21, 2013
A pound of flesh...
"Its a boy, again! How I wish I had a girl. My own doll", she says.
"We want a boy", chorus the newly wed, "Someone to do my last rites and light my path to heaven", adds the "traditional" groom while his coy bride smiles on.
"This year to the girl child", announces the man in power.
" We've tried almost all the best infertility clinics in town. This one is our last resort", sigh the couple.
" How dare the government talk to us about birth control. Let us propogate our kind", exhorts the religious head, all sound and fury.
In between all this cacophony, the little whimper is almost inaudible. Now, it is louder. Now it is feeble. And, now it is gone. Call it the innocent victim of a man's lust or maybe a woman's mirth. Call it a 'could've been happy baby', 'would've grown up soul' or maybe just a to be rotten 'pound of flesh' in the communal dustbin.
"We want a boy", chorus the newly wed, "Someone to do my last rites and light my path to heaven", adds the "traditional" groom while his coy bride smiles on.
"This year to the girl child", announces the man in power.
" We've tried almost all the best infertility clinics in town. This one is our last resort", sigh the couple.
" How dare the government talk to us about birth control. Let us propogate our kind", exhorts the religious head, all sound and fury.
In between all this cacophony, the little whimper is almost inaudible. Now, it is louder. Now it is feeble. And, now it is gone. Call it the innocent victim of a man's lust or maybe a woman's mirth. Call it a 'could've been happy baby', 'would've grown up soul' or maybe just a to be rotten 'pound of flesh' in the communal dustbin.
Friday, January 4, 2013
Resolutions, yet again?
This time I decided to keep my resolutions tangible and acheivable. Afterall, where was the point in consistently promising myself the moon and consistently failing, each year every year. So, this time it is doable. And, not just any old doable. These are things that I anyway love to do, in bits and spurts as and when time and convenience permits. Here is the list:
1) Set aside10% of whatever amount is spent on all of our birthdays or any other special day for any one social cause that, we feel,really makes a difference. In my case, child and women issues top the list.
2) Write down a small review/account of every book I read. My absent mindedness makes me forget most names, both that of books and of authors.
3) Stop offering help to people who do not ask for it. By that I dont mean I quit helping someone obviously in dire need and not in a position to actively seek help.
4) I am a chickatarian (dont know if that usage is official, but anyway) and so, I quit eating that for the whole of January. Don't ask me what purpose that serves. Maybe, just checking if my long term plan of shifting gears to complete vegetarianism is achieveable :-D
5) Actually count and write down atleast one incident/person who has been a blessing, each week.
6) Resume Yoga from mid january. Pushed till then since I want to go back to a teacher, atleast for a few sessions, to get back into active practise.
7) Give my little girl undivided attention for set hours. By that I mean, not to let my reading, cooking, cleaning or facebooking interfere with the time I allocate for her.
8) Learn one new skill before the year is out.
There, now it is all out in the public :-D
1) Set aside10% of whatever amount is spent on all of our birthdays or any other special day for any one social cause that, we feel,really makes a difference. In my case, child and women issues top the list.
2) Write down a small review/account of every book I read. My absent mindedness makes me forget most names, both that of books and of authors.
3) Stop offering help to people who do not ask for it. By that I dont mean I quit helping someone obviously in dire need and not in a position to actively seek help.
4) I am a chickatarian (dont know if that usage is official, but anyway) and so, I quit eating that for the whole of January. Don't ask me what purpose that serves. Maybe, just checking if my long term plan of shifting gears to complete vegetarianism is achieveable :-D
5) Actually count and write down atleast one incident/person who has been a blessing, each week.
6) Resume Yoga from mid january. Pushed till then since I want to go back to a teacher, atleast for a few sessions, to get back into active practise.
7) Give my little girl undivided attention for set hours. By that I mean, not to let my reading, cooking, cleaning or facebooking interfere with the time I allocate for her.
8) Learn one new skill before the year is out.
There, now it is all out in the public :-D
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