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 1st
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.
