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| Monday, April 05, 2010 |
Days are passing by so quickly, cannot believe its April already!
Lately this feeling of 'aging' has been wearing me down. Responsibilities and more responsibilities. Watched snippets of Pammal K Sambhandham and seeing the young Simran in the movie made me want to go back to good old college days. Yes, random things can pull random strands of memories from my head, so weird is nostalgia! By college days, more specifically, I dont mean the time that I spent studying, but the time I spent, just chatting with friends, fighting for silly things, listening to music, wallowing in my own dreamy world for the most part. No responsibilities.
Cannot believe I was waiting to grow up then.
After a long time of no-book-keeping in the two people household, where we spent as we wished, making impromptu splurges on insignificant things, this month DH and I decided to track the finances. Just tracking makes one spend consciously, I hate to agree but it works. This was after Dad asked me one day, " Sambarikkara kaasellam enna panreenga?" We are moving into the boring albeit fast paced phase of a responsible couple and at the least it is overwhelming.
Thoughts about India have been flashing on and off. This time I am not crazy to believe the rosy picture memories paint.
Slowly we are getting accustomed to living in Bay Area. The initial weeks when we moved, I was talking to a friend telling her how I miss my friends and how its boring here. Yes I actually used that word. And she said, "Its very easy to fill up your social calendar" At that time I didnt agree. But now, I so do! I just started volunteering and suddenly there are so many things to do, weekends just fly by! Running is no exception. Now we need to keep track of our weekend calendar too so we dont over commit ourselves.
This past Saturday we were part of the organizing team of a dance program. The dance program was wonderful, sequences were all Tamil songs, may be another reason for my India nostalgia. So many activities, I just love it. I just need to find more time and energy to fit in all the things that I want to do!
This Lent I successfully managed to stay off meat for 40days. I didnt even miss the chicken.
Weather has been a little lousy. On the running front, DH and I ran another 10K at another Non profit event. Met some old folks who were some of the first few to come to America from India, who started these organizations for the betterment of India from US. Quite grass itching.
Anyway, bottom line, dont like growing up. But cannot help it. Atleast want to do something useful and memorable while doing it. Dont want to just go about doing the usual.
Work is killing.
I have to get back to making a conscious effort to be peaceful and content. There is so little time to do things, I get caught up in the daily rut and forget to see the bigger picture. So taking time to step back, relax, move away, look at things from an outsider's perspective. Helps a lot.
Anyhoo, if you are still reading, have a good one! :--) |
posted by SK @ 6:12 PM  |
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Ippolam you guys dont go out a everyweekend. Munnadi every weekend you used to go somehweere..
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Aah, I liked Simran a lot in that movie. Or I think I liked whoever dubbed for her more than Simran herself.
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Hey SK....btw, that reminds me. Would you like to meet up sometime? It would be nice to meet a fellow blogger :) I've only met Archana before, not that I have too many readers!
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Bodhi
We are still going out every weekend haha, only driving 30mins instead of 2.5hrs ;--)
Gradwolf, Where have you been???
Saumya,
Of course! Definitely we can meet. ;--) Do email at saranya.kish@gmail.com. May be I can recruit you and your husband to run for a cause ;--)
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Ippolam you guys dont go out a everyweekend. Munnadi every weekend you used to go somehweere..