Cut Your Losses

The saying "cut your losses as quickly as possible" has been on my mind today. And I am seriously pondering on the wisdom of doing so.

There are times no matter how hard you try things don't work. But most times we just carry on, knowing there's no point because it's oh so difficult to let go. 

I think the biggest reason we want to hang on to things is because there is a certain comfort level in the known. You know the good, bad and ugly and you figure you'll deal with it. 

I can think of so many instances when I've let things pass saying chodo. But I've realized that letting things pass is like slow poisoning. It kills you slowly but surely. 

Am seriously tempted to cut my losses on a certain situation. But the fact that I'm debating in my mind tells you that I am having trouble letting go. Wanting to hang on. Knowing fully well that if I do, this particular situation will bug me every few days. But still debating. When will I learn?

OMG

The photo says it all. I took it last night on my way back home and at that point of time I couldn't help but say OMG and laugh. I mean come on, this is Delhi, the national capital. It was hilarious.

Later though when I thought about it, I felt a bit sad and a bit mad. Sad because a whole lot of people in our country are illiterate and for them it's just a print. They don't know that the wrong side is up and I really don't blame them. They are poor workers doing their job of hanging a board where it's supposed to be hung.

Then comes the mad part. Someone obviously has not done their job properly and that's the reason these boards are upside down. If the guy who was "supposedly" supposed to supervise has paid even 1% attention, he would have seen what you and I, the educated lot can see. But he didn't and so we can all look at this photo and have a good laugh.

BloodAid ~ A Non-Profit Initiative

I recently heard about a new non-profit initiative from some friends and was really impressed. So I thought I'd share it with all of you. It's called BloodAid, an online portal which aims to connect genuine donors with people who are desperately in need of blood in case of emergency.

We all come across such cases where someone needs blood urgently and at that point of time we end up racking our brain trying to figure out someone we know with a matching blood type. Now we know where to go. This site has voluntary donors from all blood types who one can get in touch with in case one requires blood and it's FREE .

I remember the time when I needed two units of blood before a surgery and it was pretty stressful trying to figure out where to get it from. At that time my Mom and Sister had given what was needed and I still remember feeling very grateful in my heart especially since they both have an absolute horror of needles.

A lot of us don't really pay much attention to these blood requests when we see them. I guess it's because it's someone, somewhere, and it generally doesn't touch us enough to be active about it. But let me tell you when it's someone we love who needs it....that is the time we really understand just how precious donating blood is.

So please please please check out www.bloodaid.com and spread the word about it to all your friends. You never know, someday, somewhere, by doing so, you just might be instrumental in saving a life.

It's Dillogical

What's most important......heart or mind? Logically I would say the mind but a lot of times the heart takes over and we become dillogical.

I normally pride myself as someone in control of my emotions and reacting logically to most situations life throws at me. As I said....most of the time. But there are those few times when my heart takes over and totally throws my mind and all logical thought out of the window.

Is that good or bad? Again logically I would say it's bad since when we are emotional we only go by what we feel and our decisions are based on emotion. We do not think or react by weighing the pros n cons of a given situations. But hey.....we are all human beings and need to remember that when we get dillogical :)

Behind The Scene

It's been a long time since I updated my blog......a combination of being busy and out of sorts with myself. Though if I were to be honest, it's more my state of mind than anything else that's kept me away.

What have I been doing the last couple of months? Family, friends and a little amount of work. A friend was in hospital, someone in the family was ill and passed away, all of which took up almost a month. The next month was taken up with festivals starting with Durga Puja followed by Dushera finally culminating with Diwali.

Since I live in a mainly Bengali neighborhood there are pandals all around my house and I spent the whole Pujo playing host to various friends who visited. Walked till my feet hurt and ate like there was no tomorrow. By the end, even my stomach had said enough. Durga Puja is party time for Bengali's and the amount of food stalls in the pandals are a foodies delight. You name it and they have it. From chat to bhelpuri to tikka's to burra kababs and more. I ate out all five days.

Dushera was spent with friends at Khan Market where we ate, drank and watched Ravan burn. With Diwali approaching there were trips to Old Delhi, made easy with the brand new metro running. One of the special trips out of those was with two of my friends when we went candle shopping. We brought bags full of them lugging them back with difficulty on the metro.

Diwali was mainly time spent at home with family. It was as hectic as ever and let me add, this year the pollution was terrible. I remember driving that night and there were pockets where I actually need to put on my emergency lights because the visibility was so poor.

So that's the busy part of the last two months....the out of sorts part shall stay private inside my mind. Sorry for depriving you of all the masala chatpata bits :P