Monthly Goals - March 2016

I know I'm late but I'm not guilty, this blog is for funsies, I will blog when I feel like and wont when I don't feel like it.

This month has been good so far, I've cooked twice and absolutely loved the whole process too much. Emotionally, life has been a roller coaster, one minute i feel okay, another minute i feel so down and in the dumps and I've been feeling like this for wayy too long, I need it to stop soon.

Without much ado, here are my March goals:

- Go for a walk/run 3 times a week.

- Finish the Harry Potter movie series

-  Try two new food places in the city.

- Try a new chicken recipe

- Make two important life decisions I've been sitting on (one is personal, the other is work related) for way too long.

I will be back in 15 days with a review.

Still in two minds about the new blog I want to start. Should I, Should I not?

Review Post - February 2016

So one month has passed, and I'm here to review the goals I've set a month ago.

Just to recap:

- Eat properly I think I've been able to achieve this one. I have slowly come to make 3 meals a day my routine, no more skipping.

-Take the stairs more - So i thought this one would be easy because my desk is on the first floor at work. But for some reason they decided to seal all the stairways. I'm stuck with taking elevators all day.

-Continue my morning walk routine. Walk 4 days a week. - Not going to strike this one off just yet, but yes I have begun doing this for a week now

-Stop postponing and finish all my paper work by Feb 15th. Done Done Done! All done, more details soon.

-Finish the Harry Potter Series - Nope, I think i have 2 more movies to go.

So for February the score is 2/5. 

Not too bad.

I will be back with my Goals Post for March soon. 

Monthly Goals - February 2016

Its been a good 7 months. The hiatus was good, it was a high. Happy days followed one after the other.

My favourite artist said this "Heartbreaks can better the ART" and that is so true in my case.

In the last 24 hours I've written two poems, and finished one painting. That's better than my record for the past 6 months.

So basically I'm here to set my Goals on record, to help me be accountable. The idea is to post a goals post in the first week, and a review post in the end of the month.

Goals for February 2016:

- Eat properly
-Take the stairs more
-Continue my morning walk routine. Walk 4 days a week.
-Stop postponing and finish all my paper work by Feb 15th.
-Finish the Harry Potter Series

My aim is to tick all the 5 off by the end of this month. A little too ambitious, don't ya think?

P.s: I might be considering writing a new blog. I'm entering a new phase in life, that I think will be interesting to document on a regular basis. But this time i want to do it openly, not anonymous and personal like this one. But I might still keep this one alive, just for days like this.

Also wish I could make my own pictures for my blog posts. Probably make this a goal the next month? Baby steps for now.

Reminder to self: Even the roughest of nights are followed by a new dawn.

Companionship

I truly believe this is one of the desires of the flesh.

No matter how successful you get, you have this deep desire to cling to another soul. And you are always looking for it in everything. If it weren't for companionship, I doubt society would exist or for that matter even relationships.

I've been trying to fight this want/need for a while now.. And it's been so damn hard. I thought I could you know live on my own and everything, all to become "independent". But I learnt a very valuable lesson in the process.

Many of you may not agree with this, but I'm done caring.

Companionship doesn't nullify independence. Talking to someone, sharing you joys and sadness doesn't make you a dependent person. It just makes you human.

I love how you sometimes find it in the most unlikely of places/persons.

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being"

John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

Weekend Ramblings

You know I always struggle  with the opening line for all my posts. Its very confusing - Do you say hello like in a conversation or do you just start typing what you want to? I don't know if its a blogger thing or its just me!

Anyway, Its a Saturday night and I'm home for once. And also, I've had the most unproductive day in a looong time. All i did today was watch videos and sleep. All day, Watch videos - Eat - sleep - repeat. And I'm so bored right now! I don't know what to watch anymore.

I'm eating a looot. This past week, if i had to pick a theme for my life, it would be food. Also i finally got my fringe trimmed and I'm content - not ecstatic but content. 

Something else I'm happy about is a break I'm catching next week! I'm going to chennai for a weekend just to chill at the beach and spend time with my cousins WOHOOO.

Work is  hectic and umm.. I don't know. Maybe i'll write a whole post on the different people at work sometime soon.

Well, I'm still confused and annoyed.. about a lot of things. 

'Here to another week of People, food and Whatever!

Bleh.

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My take on Deepika Padukone's "My Choice"

Hi All,


Before I start, I would like you to watch this video. It won't take long.

Now that you know what I'm giving my opinion on, lets begin :)

The video went Viral about 6 days back, I remember I was in office and someone sent me a link to it. While it buffered I  read the description below, and built my expectations, I was looking forward to watching the video even more now.

The video starts well but slowly down the line I just could not agree to anything she was saying. Sometimes we go too far in the name of women empowerment and this in my opinion is one such instance.

Have sex outside marriage - My choice. Is it really a married woman's choice to have sex outside marriage. I just wont agree to that. Like, in which twisted sense  does that make sense? Marriage is a sacred institution, its a vow. And nobody should be allowed to destroy it in the name of empowerment. There is nothing empowering about having sex outside your marriage, its just as shameful to a woman as it is to a man. You can't promise to love and stand by an individual one day, and then have sex with someone else the next day and say its my choice, because I'm a woman.

Another line that caught my attention was Love temporarily, lust forever - My choice.  Say what?  This is more a question of morality than anything else.

I realized something as I watched the video. Not  many people get the meaning of women empowerment. Women empowerment is elevating women to a position of equality with man or bringing her to be on par with a man NOT like this video suggests above everything and everyone else.

I would like to end with a verse from the Bible  Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  - Romans 12:2

Yes all of these are choices, but they all come at a very big price. Are you ready to pay that price?

Ponder, think  - Make your choice.