This post is dedicated to the fabulous, hard-working interns in my office. Just a reminder that the journey to your destination doesn’t always mimic a direct flight; it’s more like a bumpy bus ride with many transfers. ———- My love affair with words started with solving the “Word Power” section of Reader’s Digest. I…
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X number of weeks times X number of days times X number of hours times X number of minutes times X number of seconds times X number of breaths exhaled waiting for you to come back to see you to touch you to feel your warmth to hear your beating heart and smell your…
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You know how you’re always told what to do and, more important, not do at a job interview? Do dress professionally Do arrive 10-15 minutes before the scheduled interview time Do shake hands with a firm grip Do maintain eye contact Do bring extra copies of your resume Do answer to the point Don’t…
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My ear is still producing gooey stuff. Woke up with an ear infection on Monday and headed to the doc who prescribed antibiotic drops. Took him f-o-r-e-v-e-r to produce the all-electronic prescription — “It’s a new system…we’re trying it out for the first time today.” he said apologetically. I told him not to worry…
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I procrastinate. A lot. It’s not that I don’t want to arrange my overflowing closet, or don’t want to proof that 150-word invitation … it’s just that I don’t feel like it. It’s not urgent, appealing, or motivating enough for me to dive right in and take care of it. I recognize when I…
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As I read Amit Varma’s post on August 22 about the need to get away from society and its craziness in order to find the time and peace to collect one’s thoughts, I was struck by the question at the end of the post: What is there to be said that hasn’t been said…
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Freedom A refreshing breeze People Looking like Miniature dolls The vast ocean Seagulls’ eyeballs Fear, a non-issue No fear of heights Or dizzying spins No fear of Speed Or falling Only freedom Liberation The thrill of Flying Two whole minutes Of Just Being. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2010 Mansi Bhatia
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I read Robin Marantz Henig’s “What Is It About 20 somethings?” in the August 18 online edition of the New York Times Magazine with much interest. Henig reports on various studies and hypotheses, most prominently Jeffrey Jensen Arnett‘s, who calls the 20s the “stage of emerging adulthood.” Henig observes that: One-third of people in…
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Do you know what it feels like to be the last one in school? To be standing at the gate, watching all your friends leave one by one — some by cycle, some in a rickshaw, some into the outstretched arms of their parent … You stand there thinking about them pedaling home, catching…
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Fuzzy mind Wobbly legs A state of delirium Headache Bodyache But free of Heartache The mind sees The eyes sleep The body breathes Pain Comes and goes Reality intermingling With dreams Voices Visions Vitamins Hot and cold Bursts of energy Languid days Restless nights Doctor Medicine Advice Smiling faces Snappy deadlines Work stress Life…
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