It was a usual weekday with the early morning rush and making breakfast getting my daughter ready for school and so on. Whilst we were doing so my younger daughter Saira who was 2½ years then also woke up and gots ready to go drop her elder sister Sanaa to school. Today she decided to carry her empty school bag and pretended she’s also off to school.  Sanaa was extremely chaffed with idea of her baby sister joining her.  When they got off the car and walked into the school gates my little girl glanced back at me twice reassuring I was still there. I waited patiently for hubby to come back with her, but he returned back alone. It was a mixed feeling of happiness That’s she went to school and emptiness knowing she won’t be at home with me. Apparently the headmistress had taken her and settled her in class and asked us to relax. She reassured us that baby will be taken care of. It was surely a good feeling. I was waiting anxiously for the time to pass and got ready to pick her up well before time. When we got to school my older daughter and her teacher were eager to go and get little baby from her class and see her reaction. I had already told hubby that I was sure she’d be asleep and that’s exactly what happened. When she woke up she was so happy to see us. She ran to me quickly and said, ” mummy I cried a lot, because I missed you”. I was so overwhelmed but glad that she managed through  the day with her abrupt decision to stay at school.
I’ve always been an impulsive person and I can see it reflecting in my kids. Isn’t it always a joy to see ur reflections in your children.. Well the good ones.. Adding adventure n thrill to life only makes it more beautiful.

… Tanuja
31 March 2016

Every human needs emotional support. Not one person can say that they are fine and do not need any support for their emotional and mental well-being.

What is emotional and mental well-being?  in layman terms it simply means being happy from within. Producing positive energy, thoughts, feelings and emotions and the ability to adapt when confronted with adversity and stressful situations.

Being happy is a state of mind and it can only be achieved from within. Looking for happiness from outside will only create uncomfortable situations for oneself, as external happiness is short lived.  Every person is looking to be happy and unfortunately questing either from others or from materialistic belongings which are temporary.

Accepting people for who they are is a step towards inner peace and eventually happiness. Accepting oneself for what we are is the most important step towards emotional well-being. One needs to allow room for mistakes and corrections. We are human after all. Human it’s to err and we must allow room for it.

We learn from our mistakes and grow too. Although we do not really to need to make all the mistakes by ourselves.. we can sometimes learn from the mistakes of others around us. It only saves time.  浪

Life has its weird twists and turns, never smooth always something hurling round the corner, some adventures, and mysteries that are waiting to pounce on us when we least expect it. There is always ups and downs and that is what life is about. Amidst all this we will go through emotional turmoil and that’s when we need to find some peace from within to calm us down.

Have your ever sat and thought that what if today was your last day in this earth, what would you do. What would you want to accomplish and really what can you accomplish in that one day, few hours that have been left of your life. Would you be able to achieve anything, maybe you wanted to learn something or maybe you wanted to buy something.  Difficult isn’t it??

The only thing that can be achieved in those few hours is happiness and peace for yourself and others around you. This can only be done if you are emotionally and mentally stable and well.

We come across many difficulties in life and many a times it breaks us down to such tiny pieces that we feel we can’t be put back together. But when we have the will to do something the universe gives us the strength to move on.

There will be times when you want to give up and think life will be better when it ends but at that point we are only being selfish as we are not thinking about the people we will leave behind we are only thinking about how we can relieve ourselves of all the troubles we are facing.

Life is a beautiful journey,  with lots of experiences, some good some not so nice but overall it is entirely up to us to make what we want out of it. Through thick and thin we have got to move on, cutting through the bushes to reach our destinations and goals.  Most importantly we all need is to make an epic story that will leave beautiful memories for all those leave behind and set an example for our friends and families , so they can pick themselves up when they fall and keep moving..

Tanuja Adhikari
20 Oct 2021