Love You Zindagi

Last week I decided to start writing again, and thought it would be a good idea to give myself a timeframe. Let’s say a blog or at least a paper for the next book every week. So, today I opened a Microsoft Word file and was stuck in a thought process for about an hour. There should be plenty to write as I was away from it for four years; should be able to write at least a paper.

Don’t want to write anything negative in these gloomy days, we already have enough of negativity. To whom so ever I have talked in last month or so, everyone is counting numbers of dead or infected as if a cricket match is going on and they are following a score board. All these days should have something positive also; and I have four years to search for, these many years must have given me at least a paper load of good stuff; so let’s start writing.

Love You

Zindagi

This hibernation or writer’s block has started from my fatherhood. In 2016 I became a father. Not only this, my wife gave birth to twins, and the jackpot is one boy & one girl. Enough for a good positive start J.

If not whole of my life like many Punjabi’s, at least from last two-three years I was thinking about moving out of India. In 2016 end I shifted my base to Australia. It wasn’t my 1^st choice, as I would have loved to go to Europe any day but Australia is also good. So second positive, I got what I wanted. Always wanted to start something of my own and moving to a new place gave me new opportunities. Leaving the engineering field behind started running a Café and that’s another positive.

After a couple of years of hard-work and running around I am now settled here, I own a house (of course with a mortgage) two cars, wife’s happy with her work, kids are growing fast and doing good in mannerism and etiquettes (that’s what I stress more on, not the schooling or winning a kids reality showJ ). Professionally I am working on to something new, can tell you more about it once it’s done. And moreover, I am not a settler; once something is done I will move onto something completely different (that will never stop).

When I started writing this piece, I could think of many positive changes in my life (there are plenty more I can write, but these are the major events) but none negative. That doesn’t mean life is all rosy but I believe when you start looking for good things in your life the negativity goes away on its own. And thanks to my weak memory, I can forget the unnecessary stuff quite easily (one more positiveJ).

 It’s been a long roller coaster ride. So much has happened in these years, life has completely changed. But as they say, all is well if end’s well. So throw away the negativity, just look at the big picture. There will be life after this Corona Virus, and that will definitely be a better version of the previous one.

‘Jo hota hai ache ke liye hota hai’ yeh main nahi kehta, GEETA mein likha hai.

LOCK-DOWN

Corona virus khatam ho na ho, but this lockdown will definitely make half of India Master-Chef and the other half a Fitness-instructor. That was my FB status couple of weeks back. I am really tired and hell bored of looking on those lame pictures of Dinner tables and videos of home workouts. But then I thought that, atleast they are doing something to kill their free time, something positive in these scary times of Pandemic. What am I doing? Doing what I am best at, criticizing things! That moment hit me hard and I thought of doing something productive and stop criticizing altogether or at least not these TikTok videos or dinner recipes J

In last two weeks I regained my lost love for the things which I forgot in this mad rush called life. Picked up a book to read after a gap of more than 3 years and finished it in few days. After Scion of Ikshvaku by Amish Tripathi now I am reading The barefoot investor by Scott Pape. Happy to the core, I am back into the game.

Opened two new trading accounts to start investing and playing with the market, which I always loved and lostJ. But this time I made a resolution of getting the knowledge first and then jumping into the ocean of moneymaking, that’s why that second book which I mentioned above.

Coming out of Hibernation is tough, only a bear can tell it better than a writer.  It took me more than four and half years and a Pandemic to come back to writing. As much as I remember I haven’t opened a word document since that last blog. The second book I was writing ‘sequel to the RAINBOW- The shades of love’ is left half-done years ago and I haven’t touched that either since the day I landed in this part of the world; Hopefully, will start writing that again.

As of now I am happy that at least I have started doing the things which I love the most. And this much positivity is enough to survive the COVID-19 Lock-Down.