“Breathe In...... Breathe Out........”
- said Maya to her little kids :)
It was 7 am in the morning and the dawn of the light dashed her window curtains
with a silent breeze. Her two kids aged 6 & 8 years were keen on doing the
Pranayama (an art/ exercise in Yoga which helps us to have control over our breath) with their mother's instructions. This has been their daily activity
ever since they understood the benefits of Yoga & Fitness. An hour passed,
then the kids wrapped up their session with a prayer to God. Maya hugs them
both with a kiss on their forehead !
Maya is a trained Yoga tutor who
teaches not only to her kids but quite a few children from an orphanage too. She
has been doing this as a service for more than a decade now who emphasizes that
Yoga discovers the happiness and love in you. She has been an inspiration to
all the other little kids around her. Maya's witty smile is what keeps
her going, in-spite of many odds in her life! Adds up to this, she is also a
blogger who expresses her ideas/thoughts through her Pen. She believes words
can make wonders. After all,Words are a cup of motivation.
The Mother of these brilliant kids have
something to say to this World.
She throws all her thoughts genuinely
in this post as she feels its worth to read and chew it.
With her Sip of Coffee in hand, Maya grabs a pen & paper to throw her thoughts. She begins...
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This year 2020 is becoming the most
dreadful year of all for everyone with the current circumstances around us.
With not much going around, from the beginning of this year the only
substance that comes on to all our minds is the virus pandemic which
shuttered the entire globe.
With the current quarantine/self-isolation/Lock-down/crown to huge people
across the world, the questions that we all have is : How do we survive from this
shatter? Where all this is going to lead us ? Are we on the right stand to face
our lives ? When will we get back to normalcy ? Is this an human creation
? (If so it will be a betrayal to the entire mankind) Is this all for economy
supremacy ? Social Media or Flash news across TV channels to compete each
other, what is that we take in ? Is it Myth or Truth ? So on and so forth of
questions must be banging our heads with an answer of BLANK to all
questions.
Everyone is facing their worst time in their lifetime as this has created
history in the universe. We have to go with what is in front of us and believe
to protect our lives and so others. We have to accept that this is going to be
and this will be the new normal going forward. Acceptance is what is needed for
now.
Rain or shine, now let us just sit and relax for sometime
and talk to ourselves to see what the world is telling us apart from this huge
Covid-19 pandemic!
I am giving birth to this post right
now for us to contemplate and think over on some thoughts amidst this
situation. I know its hard for all of us to lead our lives this way, however
there is some little things that we could do to bring that small change during
this pandemic. Here I am to pour my words to overcome this situation with my
thoughts. If you feel worth it, please carry yourself with these as it will
truly be a stress buster !
Be ready for this big roller coaster ride :) I am sure after this big post,
you will definitely take some points with you and there will be a
change!!
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Everyone in this world have a reason to be have born,
Every dawn is a new beginning for us to
utilize and enjoy,
Every moment that we own is worthy and
expensive,
Every activity that we do is being
counted,
Every prayer that we devote counts as a
blessing,
Every soul that we interact with, gives
us some meaning,
Every hour that you spend at work with
dedication makes you one step higher,
Every relationship that you come across
teaches you something,
Every worry will make us more mature
and teach a new lesson,
Every failure will be a stepping stone
for our success,
"Every time I faced a challenge I solved it with my thoughts,,There is a
Way and the Way is on its Way!!"
VIBGYOR - The nature Rainbow has its own excellent 7 colors with it. It
blossoms very rarely in the sky to show its own charm. One who sees it would
always be lucky to get the utmost joy.
Life has its own beauty which combines with nature of vibrant colors. Your life
is your chance to prove that you are remarkable in your own way. When life is
giving you an opportunity to explore the world around you, then why don't we
utilize that golden ticket to step forward to stage yourself that you always
wanted to do? Every person has an innocence behind, find it and cherish it
! Life is full of colors, rejoice and enjoy the present.
Everyone are so sick of this current situation that we want to get back to our
Normalcy soon. Yes, of course. However there are certain pressures from
Nature too which is way beyond our control. Our hands are tied up that we have to
sustain to beat this successfully. God has always shut one door to open the
another. Now it is time for us to peep out through the other door to tell the
world that, you are remarkable who can be the reason for a good positive
change. So come on, with spirit, let us see what Life/Nature has given us from
other end, I am quoting down some random thoughts (that can be carried across
every stage of life) which one can take it up during this stressful situation.
Carry it yourself!
I know this list would always be an endless one, but nevertheless its worthy
!
Life has its own charm, Appreciate it
:
- Time is the best healer for any problem. Just
give time the TIME. This too shall pass!
- Make the best use of this TIME which is at
your plate now
- Mother Nature is the Master of the entire
universe and we are slaves of it. The current situation is the right
example that none can rule over the world under his/her control. Try not
to compete with HER, Respect HER for what she is and what she has done
- Around this corner, be grateful for what you
are having. There are people who are even struggling to get a pulse of
food for their huger.
- Don't take things for granted making this
pandemic a reason
- Be humble, be grateful and be polite for the
gifts in life
- Thank god for the air that you breathe in
- There is no need to RUSH now for your daily
routine, so life has given you a speed-breaker to halt and go slow
- Don't let the stress override you.Think and
act slowly.
- This
is the best time to Appreciate all the little things around you :)
- Make love and show that gratitude to everyone
if you haven't done all these before in your life
- Enjoy the beauty of Nature. Go and see the sky
at night. You will feel pleasant to count the stars
- Beauty
doesn't stay in the pockets of money, but within hearts of pure hugs and
kindness.
- World continues to hold its charm, it is your
eyes which can reflect it either good or bad
- Spread ideas, spread love, spread positive
thoughts
- Don't give up, Stand up for what up for what
you believe in.
- Be positive and be awesome. Life is full of
hope, positivism and balance.
Your body,
Your health, Your fitness :
- Now that time has given you sometime to take
care of your body, spend wisely and take care of your health.
- Develop an habit to make it in your
routine
- Practice yoga. This helps to find the YOU in
you. Yoga makes you both physically and mentally fit
- Your body is your owner. Listen to what it
says as health is the expensive thing in the world. We could see it ruling
over at present
- Cook yourself and make your own dishes. You
are the best chef for yourself
- Have your dream kitchen and talk to it daily.
It has lot of flavors which is always refreshing and can give you your
life back in an healthier way
- Decorate your kitchen and season it with LOVE
always! Enjoy your food with NO pulse of rice in your trash
- Develop your immunity at least from now on
- Avoid medications unless absolutely necessary,
have a diet chart for yourself and stick it over the walls
- Go back to your childhood phrase - 'An apple a
day keeps the doctor away'
- Get fit your own way. Every health matters and
means a lot to everyone
- Own yourself, Be yourself
Your Job,
Your satisfaction , Your Savings :
- With the work from home policy with many
organizations across the globe, people are striving hard to prove their
capability
- This is a difficult phase with face to face
interaction not getting on your table, however just put your best effort
to show them your dedication, also remember your satisfaction matters a
lot
- Be precise, be calm and adapt to this new
lifestyle. This is going to be the new work style
- Your company values you the most now and
trusts that you can do your BEST during this crisis, so don't put them
down
- You are the CEO of a company and unable to manage this crisis,? Never mind, stay clam and the employees are with you to tackle this. YOU mean a lot to them
- Go digital by all your means. Build the
confidence in you and let them know CODING is fun @ work !
- Utilize this time to learn out a new
technology
- Value your employment and respect it, because
millions of people out there are striving hard to even get a loaf of bread
- Be online and post your dedication at this
peak hour
- Say YES for online courses, Does would say a
NO if its going for FREE :)
- If you are at your break of maternity or
sabbatical leave, its okay, rest for the period now as you will never get
back this hour again. Spend time with your kids and make the best use of
this time.
Find the
passion in you :
- During this hour of crisis, bring out the
passion in you. This is the best stress buster that anyone can go for
it.
- Be it either any crafts from any recycles,
blogging, photography or any art - post it to your friends/well wishers.
Be a role model for them. Who knows, you may be inspiring person and your art
might be an inspiration to them as well
- Share some useful tips that you come across on
your page
- Listen to Music and shake your legs a while
- Sing a song aloud so that your heart listens
to it
- Invest some time in reading books and writing
on them. Make your book your best friend
- Think what you are good at and try to nourish
them
- Time has given you some time to think about it
- Go creative. Ideas are the super powers now
- Make the best out of your any household waste.
This will in-cultivate the savings mode in you
- Write a poem and read it aloud
- Create some inexpensive craft work from old
newspapers. Value and reuse the old items
- Make an odd sock bunny and put them on your
table
- Make a mandala art, Make a Rangoli yourself
!
- Bring up your hidden talents
- Do small things with great love. Happiness
blooms from within.
- Try to solve a puzzle all by yourself. Ask
your kid to participate as you can learn from them
- If you are interested in cooking, try out new
dishes to impress your spouse. This is the time to make more love :)
Homemade is special always :)
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Need of the hour - I see the
lock-down as this :)
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Happiness
recreated, Respect the lovey :
- Be humble, be patient, respect the lovey. Do
good and Be good
- You could be the reason for smile behind
someone, recreate that happiness
- Be humble and show kindness to your family and
people around you. At this crisis when everyone is pissed off, this is all
they want the the most
- Help the needy. Think you as ME at this need
of hour. Life is always a Circle, what goes around will come again
- Volunteer yourself to assist the needy or
help by giving what you can to people who are doing volunteering during
this pandemic
- Get blessings from your well wishers
- Recreate the things which makes you happy
again. Go along with your heart and not your mind
- Do online shopping instead of window shopping.
Sometimes happiness comes in tiny packages!
- Distant calling is the new call these days.
Ring to your favorite people and do a video call with them
- Cultivate a habit on reading newspaper daily.
Knowledge is always power
- Hope and Love are the most things needed
now
- Be silent and enjoy your joy so as to last for
an extra while!
Family time, Value it :
- This is the most wanted substance during this
period
- There is been more of technology ruling over
us than our care and affection to our family.
- Be a sole owner to have a good family time
with your spouse, kids and parents
- Leave your ego and talk to your spouse
amidst fights or anger. This is the best time for you to understand
your spouse and start leading a new life
- Have an ear for your partner's problems
and solve it with your thoughts
- Sit and talk to your parents who have crossed
your age long ago. They need your attention now as loneliness would haunt
them.
- Let your kid play with their grand parents and
spend plenty amount of time
- Talk to your parents on savings and future as
they are the ones who have bleed to get a good future for you
- Teach your grand parents something new at this
time! Make them feel comfortable and cozy
- A friend is need, a friend in deed. Talk to
your friends and laugh out at the craziest things
- Cousins and relatives are your next family,
value them and spend time in talking, get rekindled with your childhood
memories and cherish those moments by taking pictures
- Be romantic with love and
care rather than anger and misunderstanding
- Don't show your anger to
kids at the heat of the moment. You can't be a bad example for your kids.
Instead make silence and put a SMILE on your face. Silence doesn't mean
you are Dumb!
- Spread the love, not
hatred,
- Spread your teachings, not the
ego,
- Spread your
thoughts/values, not by authority
- Spread colors, not
terror
- Spread
happiness, not the sorrow
ME time , Go crazy :)
- Create a ME time for yourself. I know this is
the most difficult task for anyone, however identify some time for
yourself
- You are the soul of your happiness, do don't
let it go down
- Dress up yourself well and talk positive with
you over the mirror
- Worries keep haunting us everyday, but don't
let yourself go on inferior mode. Sit, relax a while and stand up
straight with confidence to face the world.
- Never mind if you are not contributing to your
family with a Penny, life is more than it in this world. Take it easy
- Pamper yourself with a face mask, truly-fruity
and healthy food
- Rejuvenate and pamper yourself. Take care of
your skin and hair.
- Want to clear your phone memory - this is the
best time to do
- Give a chance to read all those unread mails
which is been there for years on your inbox. Never you will get this time
if your kids are back to school :)
- Are you a technology freak, if so go viral
with your new ideas even though you have zero motivators for it. Self
motivation is the best, pat a back on yourself
- Go and post all your good pics and give a
cherish-able throwback
- Your clothes are messy always ? Now take a
time to rearrange your wardrobe. Give the old ones to the needy to count
your blessings !
- Finally enjoy your passion, enjoy your
hobbies. I am doing it right now as it gives me a sense of
happiness!
- Be in the festive mood and rejoice like never
before
- My health and happiness is my responsibility,
no matter what my faults are I am unique !
Take a
while off from Social Media :
- We live in a world where advertising/ social
media wants us to be a person whom they can manipulate
- We are so attached to social media that we
have hampered our own potential growth and kept our true self from
shining. Why do we do so ?
- Restrict the usage of Social media and think
on owing yourself
- Try to restrict from technology and spend more
time with family. Family is LOVE
- Let us try not to follow others blindly over
this. We can’t own our self simply because we have forgotten what we truly
look like
- Look at the mirror and speak up to what you really
are, what you really owe rather than following members on Social
Media
- Social media is powerful tool and use this
tool for spreading love and good, not jealousy and show-off
- The world is just looking good, but its
actually not feeling good from within
- Don't pussyfoot all around your life thinking
what society will think about it, stop it there and be an
inspiration for others
- Say no to the things that doesn’t give you
utmost joy
- Learn to heal your mind!
Every picture tells you a story!
Parenting,
A huge task, Be a Role Model :
- Parenting is an Art, If you are an young
parents or experienced, take this task with a huge respect and devotion so
that you bring your child well
- Understand your kid's language. Every child
has a language of own. Decipher what the child says during this terrible
hour and give them the most comfort zone rather getting frustrated.
- You will miss your children once they are out
to normalcy soon, hence take this time to understand their emotions
- Sit with the kids and speak in clear, simple
sentences to encourage your child's articulation
- Teach your kids the good values that you have
swallowed in your life. Make them your best friends
- Put your iPhone aside for sometime and mess up
with your kids activities ! Bring out the kid in you
- Hug and cuddle your child more often as this
is what they need the most during this hour
- Your child is physically and mentally capable of more and more, and every day is jammed with new experiences, sights, sounds and words. Find the talent in your kid as this is a huge task for parents
- Every child is special in its own way
- Talk to
your spouse on your kid's future and give them that nourishment
- Give
them the freedom to talk & space to grow
- Get the
colors on hands with your kids, let them make a mess and learn from it
:)
- If you
have toddlers at home, make them participate in online story time from
library.
- Make
them read more books. Reading is a BLISS
- Talk to
your children and understand their teen age. This is the age where
children needs most attention
- "Pretend
& Play" - this is one of the activity that toddlers love to play
with parents, make sure you play with them.
- If you are working parents, ensure that you
engage your child in some craft activities which is Fun for them. I
understand that it is really difficult to spend time during this hour, but
be positive and trust me they create lot of MAGIC
- Do home schooling for your
kids over the weekends!
- Dance and sing with your child. Teach them
what you preach
- Make learning a fun. They easily grasp at this stage, teaching a
new language is a good welcome.
Stay
positive, stay healthy, stay strong, stay home & stay safe :
- This can be our new normal if things travel
the same way, hence let us adapt to this new lifestyle
- Make your plans according to this and adjust
to your routine
- Let us do our job and things will naturally
fall in place
- Get focused and stay positive instead of
drilling down too much into the issue
- Utilize the maximum period which is at your
plate
- Focus on what is in front of you
- Your body, Your mind and Your soul - it will
act on what you feel, just remember this
- You are the MIRROR to your little kids @ HOME,
so present yourself good as they COPY you
Home Sweet
Home , Huge Respect to MOM :
- Every home has a life in it, respect and value
it
- Every home has a beautiful MOM, Respect her
for what she had done, it's extraordinary.GIRL power
- Make Men to understand her feelings/emotions
as she stands a percent higher than Men. Even if she something wrong, put
aside with a SMILE as she gets you a hot cup of coffee the very next
moment :)
- Appreciate the little things that your home
gives you, that your women gives you!
- Talk to the walls of the house, they do have
ears and they are ready to lend forward
- Your house can make miracles, the more you
give to it, the double you get
- Make a nice garden, give a life to those tiny
seeds
- Spend some time to keep this shelter clean and
tidy
- Decorate your home with ethnic crafts and see
the change. It brings lot of positive vibes
- Let your home bring all that you need in your
life!
- Every house is a palace of its own. It's a
paradise.
- A pleasant and loving atmosphere in your home
always is the true foundation for your life.
Make A
Salute :
- Finally spend a min to thank all the Key
workers across the globe who are been in and out during this crisis. Their
effort is priceless and cannot be compared.
- At this moment, Doctors are the saviors for
us. Bow your head, Salute them for what they are responsible now. This is
one of the most challenging hardship in their entire lifetime !
- Respect and value the other front-line workers
who strive to help the patients across the world without thinking about
their own families
- Salute to the government and other staffs
associated who are also doing their best to keep you and the city safe and
sound.
- Show some gratitude to the people who have
helped you during this need of the hour !
- Keep chanting your prayers for he is listening
to you always,
"Keep Standing, Keep
hoping, Keep believing I am coming" - God
Get inspired and be an inspiration to all.
Cherish innocence ! Cherish your Charisma!
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Maya gives a deep breath after putting her pen down !
This is her best post ever on her blog, even though its a lengthy one. She feels - "Why make someone talk about it when you are good at it :)"
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I genuinely thank all the readers for reading
till the end. Hope you all enjoyed. I am sure at-least few of my
points must have created an impact on you and let the MAGIC do the rest.
Love to my twin sister who stood beside me to finish this long
post.It took a month for me to polish and bring it in front of you. This might be
my biggest post ever in my blog, however I don't regret for it as every
sentence has its own story behind. I am happy portraying it on my own
Space.
Pictures courtesy : My fav quotes from internet, home
pictures and few ones are from my sister too.
PS: My sister is very good at photography. Do check out her pics @
You will
enjoy watching them :)
Finally, Many thanks to my family, friends, relatives, well wishers and each and everyone for all your continuous support, encouragement and
trust on me, which keeps me writing more and more! Really means a lot.
Humbled!!!
Be Kind & Spread Love.We are ONE world.
Let’s be together, stay together and beat this situation together. This too
shall pass!
Stay
Home! Stay Safe!
Disclaimer : All posts in this blog are mine. The above post is purely my thoughts on
this crisis and lock-down. Any resemblance of thoughts to this with a real
incident or dead is purely coincidental.
