Healthy Breakfast

Breakfast is one of the most important meal of the day. In fact
the very first meal of the day. We start our day with eating breakfast and then
move on to start the day. A good and healthy breakfast gives my day a good
start and hence it is considered to be the most important meal of the day. I as
a person am extremely punctual and particular about my food and diet. Given the
stress and anxiety levels these days, I simply do not compromise on my daily
diet and the first part of my daily diet comprises of a good and healthy
breakfast. I generally prefer to start off my day early, as I am an early person
and more so a morning person, and then in the latter half of the day, I prefer
spending quality time with my family and friends. And so with getting up early
in the morning comes great responsibility to ensure that I have a good and
filling breakfast to keep me moving all day long.

I have a sweet tooth and hence I always prefer to add some
sweet to my meals, be it my early morning breakfast or lunch, I prefer taking
something sweet, as my craving for sweet just does not seem to be in control
and with all guilt I consume some sweets, although I do ensure I take minimal
quantity with the fear of putting on those extra kilos. Now to specify my early
morning breakfast, let me tell you I prefer having a good healthy meal at the
same time I avoid taking too heavy meals, which have oil and butter. I prefer
to keep it simple yet healthy and filling. All thanks to Kellogg’s I can live
up to this healthy regime of mine, because Kellogg’s takes care of the fact
that our early morning meal is nutritious and at the same time good enough in
all nutrients to keep us on the go all day.

Coming to latest recipes that Gupta Ji’s family has come up
with I am sure to go to their place for a Nashta, for a reason which fits well
in my bill and also because it has all the required ingredients that I love the
most. I would love to go to Gupta Ji’s place for Nashta to enjoy Custard apple
Cornflakes, as it would give my taste buds the required sweetness that they
need and at the same time help me control my calorie intake, as it is going to
have custard apple, along with Cornflakes. The milk and walnuts along with the
flakes and custard apple pulp would be a perfect combination to it, and will help
me balance my intake of proteins as well.

Gupta Ji, this recipe of yours, has tempted me enough to be
there at your place to enjoy a good morning breakfast and give my day a perfect
and healthy start. I am going to Gupta Ji’s place for some yummy Sitaphal
Cornflakes Nashta.

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FAMILY

When anybody asks what makes me the happiest or what is that one thing that brings immense joy and contentment, I had a lot of things to write about and share, but the one closest to me is definitely happiness of my family.

My family means everything to me. It is the reason of my happiness. It very well is also the reason of my existence. I can say that whatever I am today is all because of the love and the support of my family. Thus is there is anything that makes me happy it definitely has to be the happiness of my family. My family has my mother, my father and my sisters.

Little joys of the family and those simple moments of joy also bring happiness to me. Like simply celebrating birthdays with family, celebrating festivals with them, etc bring a lot of joy and contentment.

Just the other day we got the news that my sister was selected in her campus placements and she had got a posting in Pune. We were all very happy for her. Although none of us in the family wanted to part from her but we very well did understand what that posting meant to her. We understood that the posting was an important turning point in her career and she shouldn’t let it go for our sake. We also saw how happy she was with this and thus with a heavy heart but a heart full of hope, we let her go.

This I think is the most important, although however attached we may be to any person we shall let them choose the best for themselves. We must never let our attachment or our love come in way of their happiness. Because our love is ultimately judged my whether or not we were happy in their happiness and when we find happiness in others happiness, this is when we can say that it is true love.

Thus I can say with a lot of pride today that my love for my family is very true. I find happiness in their happiness. If they are happy, I am happy and their sorrows bring grief and pain. Well not to mistake this with over attachment or possessiveness, had that been the case I wouldn’t let my sister take up the job far away from home.  Love is when you’re happy in others happiness. My family’s happiness means a lot to me and to quite an extent I can do anything that it takes to see them happy because they mean a lot to me. They are my guide, my mentor, my motivation and it wouldn’t be an overstatement if I called them the reason for my existence.

I love my family and it is my family’s happiness that makes me the most happy.

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Optimism is the ultimate thing. It is very important in life to be positive and to have a very positive outlook toward life. It takes nothing away to be all positive and optimistic but being a pessimist takes away the opportunity of succeeding. Well if one doesn’t try, how would even know whether within their potential or not. It is only an optimist who takes chances in life and who embarks upon new endeavors.

In today’s world positivity is very hard to find. Our world is filled with people who are constantly looking down at you and making you feel worse about yourself. When you are in sorrow instead of condolence, people these days add up to the worries. This is the world today.

But when we have friends in the form of a pet like mine, world seems easier. A better place to live in. A dog is a man’s best friend. It is with the help of this pet of mine that I have actually started to live a happier and an optimistic life. I earlier hated dogs, I was afraid of their very sight. It was until my parents gifted me a puppy on my birthday. I hated that as a birthday present but she said that I would soon fall in love with it. Well yes, I did. I am in love with my pet, Tommy. I never imagined myself loving a pet so much but today Tommy is my everything.

I have seen little Tommy become a big doggy. I have lived with him. My parents were both working and I used to have absolutely nobody to be with but Tommy. Every time I came home, Tommy used to come to me wagging his tail and licking my feet. He still does.

He is my best friend. I always missed having a sibling, I found one in Tommy. Tommy is my brother, my best friend and also my motivation. He is the reason why I am happy, he can bring a smile on my face every time I am sad. I remember coming home late once, my parents had both slept but Tommy waited till I returned. This is a routine actually he never sleeps until I return and doesn’t even eat without me.

He is the reason of my joy. He motivates me with his hug. He motivates me by his wag of tail.

It is from him that I have learnt the real joys of life. It is from him that I have learnt that life is not materialistic. Life is not about only giving and expecting in return but there is a lot more to life. #together with Tommy I am optimistic. Together with him I am all positive and together with him I am happy.  

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What does it take to start a new? What does it take to move away, to make your own space? Well, what I realized is that it takes a lot of courage. A firm mind and also a heavy heart. It wasn’t easy for nor for him but it was our love that made it possible. It was our love of course that made us what we are today. Had it not been for love, we would have never been able to take such a bold move.

So although we all say that we are today’s youth and we have moved on to the 21^st century, we have the right to decide what we want to do and all of that but how difficult it actually is to preach all any of that? It takes absolutely nothing to say all of that but it takes a lot of courage to do what you actually want. This is because we live in a society that has such strict norms. If it’s their way, the stereo typical way then its right anything else that you do apart from the rigid ways or norms of living it is considered to be incorrect or inappropriate. I ask why?

Why do we live in a society that just cannot adapt changes? Why is the constitution of marriage so strict? Why it is that people cannot get this right that marriages are to be for a lifetime, unless of course you are forced to marry someone you don’t like and then divorce. It is as simple as that you should marry someone whom you love, how does the religion or the caste and creed even matter? How does it matter if I am a Hindu and the person I love is a Catholic. Don’t we have the same blood running through our bodies? Aren’t we both children of the same lord? Why do we only confine our learnings of the Bhagwat Gita and Bible to the books alone? Why don’t we grow up?

Well I refused to accept this norm of the society? I broke through those stereo typical types who would do what the society wants me to at the stake of my love. I decided to marry someone I love and not someone who I didn’t even know before this only because my family wanted me to. No I am not against arrange marriages, I am against marriages that are forced. Thanks to my love who had what it takes to stand against the world and fight those rigid norms of the society and marry me, his love.

We got married in the court because our families wouldn’t agree to our love. They wanted to go the society way, we wanted our love to stay. We today live happily ever after. This is how I started my new life with my love. Thanks for all the support and all the love J

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A child’s happiness is a mother’s happiness. It is the mother who understands the child’s sorrow, happiness and joy. It is the mother knows her child the best. A child’s small laughter brings happiness to a mother’s face and when a child dances it is the mother’s heart that dances too.

I am Mother of three kids, they are all grown up now but still when they come home happy it is I who am the most satisfied to see a smile on their face. If I see sorrow on their faces, it disturbs me too. However old a child may grow but for a mother their child will always be young. It is very rightly said that it is the child who gives birth to the mother and the mother lives through the child.

A little discomfort or even the smallest of a scratch on the child gives immense to a mother. A mother is restless till she doesn’t see her child return home. Today I relate to this even more because I have brought up three children. When I used to see my little ones dance and sing around, I used to be very happy. Well even now when I see my kids have fun and enjoy, it brings me the same amount of happiness and pleasure.

I distinctly remember my kids dancing in the rain and making paper boats and have the best times of their lives. I miss the young me and the young them. When the kids are young, their joys are different. Their charm is different, they find joy in little things. They makes such sweet and silly memories that are cherished for the life time. Well besides all of this, there are so many things that have to be taken care of when the kids are young. I am talking with experience here. Like for example little things like whether or not the baby has had eaten well or not, whether or not the baby has a good night sleep or not and most importantly whether or not his diapers are dry. The last one being the most important, the reason being if a baby‘s diaper is not dry it would affect the baby’s sleep and this could even have an effect on their health. No mother can stand their child to be sad and poor health of a child is something no mother can bear.

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Positive Outlook

Optimism isn’t it very important and very powerful? Indeed it is. For me personally it is that daily dose that I require to live on this place called earth. We humans are all different. We have different needs and perform different deeds. For it’s said by great legends think positive and be positive and I truly abide by it. Not just because it is said by great legends but by people around but because this is something I truly believe in. I am by nature a very optimistic and a positive thinker.

So one example that comes to my mind every time anybody mentions optimism or positivity is that half glass empty example. It is not what it is, it is how you see it. It is the attitude of a person that defines him and who he really is. It is amazing how the same thing can be interpreted differently by different people. Like in the case of the glass, how some thought it was half empty while the optimists saw it differently and said that it is not half empty but it is half full. Well this is life and it is we who have to choose our way of living. If we choose to live with negativity and pessimism we would end up being dull and making our own life hell. Why not take rather live life to the fullest and be positive?

Well, I have always been optimistic. I am often teased by friends for this, they call it being in a dream world but I do not agree. I don’t think optimism means being in your own world but it is rather being in a world that is nice, that is positive, that is a better world for you and for me and for the entire human race.

There is one particular incident that I was very touched with and this in the true sense gave me a different outlook to the entire world. It is when I and my mother decided to have a visit to the blind school that I learnt the true meaning of optimism. My mother always insisted me to join her for her visit to the blind school she said that there was a lot to learn from them but I never took that’s seriously. But after the visit my thoughts changed, I was very touched by the way in which they worked. It was a blind school for women, they were all so disciplined. They even worked on sewing machines. They made clothes, rags, etc. I was amazed. That is when I saw a lady who was just about to bang into the wall, I ran to help her but I was stopped. I was told that I am not going to be here to help them every day only if they fall today will they learn about this hurdle on the way.

That is when I learnt that life can teach you a lot and it is we who have to learn from it. If they (the blind) can lead such a disciplined life, if they can work, if they can get up each time they fall; we too can. I learnt the true meaning of optimism from them!

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APNO KO APNE DUM PE JEENA SIKHAO

There is always this one person in your life, who is your
mentor your guide and your life support. Yes this is true, no matter how much
you deny this, but there has always been this one person who has helped you be
where you are today or accomplish your goals. No matter who it is, your father,
your brother, your mother, your sister, your husband, your aunt or uncle, it
can be anyone. This is one person who has made you self-reliant.

Today when I got this opportunity to acknowledge that one
person in my life, I immediately decided to grab this one and pen it down
through my writings. Your parents have always been your inspiration and your
guide but for me it has been my husband. He made my self-reliant. I come from a
family where I have always been much pampered and well taken care of. I being
the youngest in the family has always been one of the reason for this.

Well, it was all difficult when I got married as my husband
was very different in his thinking and wanted me to be more independent than
dependent. Even if it meant for the smallest of things, he ensured that I was
not relying on him in any manner and at the same time he made me feel secure as
well. There was a reason to this well because we shifted to another country
altogether, a country which was new to me and to him as well. It wasn’t that
difficult for him as he was used to travelling places more often than me, but
it was a challenge for me. From the very basic of eating to speaking, I felt
challenged. We shifted to Canada and the extreme climate and the basics put me
to test. That is where my husband guided me and put me to the test, I used to
be home alone and had nothing to do. He guided me to start of my making myself
well versed with the basics at least. I got myself enrolled in language classes
the first, and then moved on to discovering the place for my own. I started
travelling alone, by buses, by trains, only to get used to the country and
adapt it in every possible manner. I always knew this that my husband is doing
this for a reason, he wanted to ensure that I can live a life of my own and not
be dependent upon him, for we would soon have a family to raise. And hence I took
this challenge sportingly and went through this tough phase of getting out of
my comfort zone and started exploring things on my own. 

Today I have 2
children, and we have put the same values in them too. I now drive my kids to
places and plan out our weekend outings, for I am no more dependent. I am now a
self-reliant individual, I truly thank my husband for this.

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