When you think you are lucky… all around you, every interaction, every relationship, every day of your life becomes a gift from the universe.
While wishing me on my birthday one of my dearest friends said she hoped I would have a spectacular year. But almost all my years for the better part (or the AWARE part) of my life have been spectacular. Eventful. Full of hope and promises.
I can do a great moaning Myrtle, and boy oh boy can I make a tumour out of a pimple! But even in my most abject phases of depression, I don’t think of myself as anything less than lucky.
Learning to be aware…
My childhood is a blur of vying for attention and getting the wrong or unwelcome kind. For that I am grateful, as it gave me time to think, to watch, to read.
Around 12-14 is when I started thinking of ‘myself’. Realising who I was. Thanks to three dear friends (2 of whom are still in my life) and two amazing teachers. Their attention and engagement with me made me aware of who I was. A favour I try and pay forward till date. To make a friend, a stranger, an acquaintance aware of themselves.
In a few weeks I will wrap up an incredible almost-9-year stint with something I helped establish and build. I am childishly excited and thrilled about embarking on the new phase of my career.
More of that in my next post. For now it’s just THANK YOU world!
The Life of Umm 
You truly are an inspiring person…
Sindhu
//When you think you are lucky… all around you, every interaction, every relationship, every day of your life becomes a gift from the universe.//
Love these words!!
Is it your birthday today? Wish you a very happy birthday Vani!!
It’s always 50-50. Every time I feel sorry for myself because I’m not rich enough, not thin enough, not pretty enough, not anything enough compared to some people, I try and remember just how much better off I am, in every way that counts, than any number of people around me. It IS easy to be a Moaning Myrtle, though. I do agree with that 🙂
Wish you all the best, Vani, for the new phase of your career!
I, too, feel incredibly (almost undeservingly) lucky.
Good luck and may you always feel like that!
Kamini.
Lucky me, I got to read a nice post by a dear friend! 🙂 BTW u deserve all the luck and loads more for the future!
The R who rarely comments (Wait …is there more than one? 😉
Happy birthday! I too could use some positive thinking. So much easier to grumble.
@sindhu: that’s the feeling today?
@ihm: thanks. it was last month.
@shyam: more or less the same with me. more 75:15:10(i’m clueless moments)
@r: hmmm… what would i do without you. remember you need both the negative and postive poles to be fully charged.
thanks deeps, kamini, inba