At The Starting Line

I love food and am too lazy to exercise. A deadly combination no doubt!I have always been large as far as I can remember and over the years I have made numerous unhealthy short term efforts to lose weight I have put myself physically and emotionally through a lot of unpleasantness.Am going to take control of my life .I want to be healthy and fit and live my life with passion and live it fearlessly! So, here I am at the starting line.

Off the Scale Goals:

• Get healthy and fit. Make it a habit.
• Eat nutritious food everyday, eat consciously and enjoy every mouthful.No skipping breakfast.
• Keep my body hydrated properly.
• Learn meditation 
• Save money every month
• Get back to photography, art and Odissi.
• Travel often.
• Do the Kailash Mansorovar trek with my father by 2016
• Read a book every month.
• Buy my cycle 

Can't wait to strike off  items from this list one by one.

The Invitation by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn’t interest me
what you do for a living.
I want to know
what you ache for
and if you dare to dream
of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me
how old you are.
I want to know
if you will risk
looking like a fool
for love
for your dream
for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me
what planets are
squaring your moon...
I want to know
if you have touched
the centre of your own sorrow
if you have been opened
by life’s betrayals
or have become shrivelled and closed
from fear of further pain.

I want to know
if you can sit with pain
mine or your own
without moving to hide it
or fade it
or fix it.

I want to know
if you can be with joy
mine or your own
if you can dance with wildness
and let the ecstasy fill you
to the tips of your fingers and toes
without cautioning us
to be careful
to be realistic
to remember the limitations
of being human.

It doesn’t interest me
if the story you are telling me
is true.
I want to know if you can
disappoint another
to be true to yourself.
If you can bear
the accusation of betrayal
and not betray your own soul.
If you can be faithless
and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty
even when it is not pretty
every day.
And if you can source your own life
from its presence.

I want to know
if you can live with failure
yours and mine
and still stand at the edge of the lake
and shout to the silver of the full moon,
“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me
to know where you live
or how much money you have.
I want to know if you can get up
after the night of grief and despair
weary and bruised to the bone
and do what needs to be done
to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me
who you know
or how you came to be here.
I want to know if you will stand
in the centre of the fire
with me
and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me
where or what or with whom
you have studied.
I want to know
what sustains you
from the inside
when all else falls away.
I want to know
if you can be alone
with yourself
and if you truly like
the company you keep
in the empty moments.

Oh, the places you'll go!

There are some down the
road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much
you won't want to go on.

But on you will go though the
weather be foul.On you will go
though your enemies prowl.
On you will go though the
Hakken-Krakshowl.Onward
up many a frightening creek,
though your arms may get
so red and your sneakers may leak.

On and on you will hike.
And I know you'll hike far and
face up to your problems
whatever they are.

You'll get mixed up, of course,
as you already know.

You'll get mixed up with many
strange birds as you go.

So be sure when you step.
Step with care and great tact and remember that

Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.

And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)

Kid, you'll move mountains!

So, be your name Buxbaum
or Bixby or Bray or
Mordecai Ali Van Allen O'Shea,
you're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So, get on your way!

Dr.Seuss

Growing tall and wild!

A lil' bit of me

• Cinema is my first love.Films are what I go to when I want to live.
• Food is my second love.Who said, 'a way to a man's heart is through his stomach' !!
• I love to travel.
• I want to do and be lots of things. I want several lives.
• I am lazy and content in my laziness.
• Once upon a time I had a baby elephant as a pet.
• I'm a drama queen.I want my life to have background music.
• I love stationery especially, colour pencils and watercolours. 
• I sometimes feel I belong to a different era :)
• I love people who can laugh aloud and without trying to look good while they are at it.
• I am a proficient 'self bubble burster'.
• Stories, real/unreal keep me sane.
•  The journey is my home.I'm a nomad.
• I'm not that obsessive but a lil' compulsive so,they tell me that I have a disorder!! ;)
• I really don't care about the sms 'u kinda' lingo.I love it when people use punctuations and write complete sentences.
• 'Hot' is a state of mind among many other things.
• I love hand written letters and postcards.I have a box of such treasure since I was 5.
• The collector in me loves collecting buttons to feathers.
• I still count with my fingers.Never heard of mental math!
• Cannot write to save my life but, love poetry, especially Haiku.
• I am still trying to figure out my calling.
• I cannot pretend to be nice.
• Books or Music, don't know which one I like better.
• Can't get enough of school stories! 
• I simply get kicked about things.
• I love characters.
• When I say 'gori', I mean 'gaon ki gori'(village belle) and not some white woman! It's a compliment.
• Can't live without humour.
• Love and gratitude to the universe for conspiring.It's definitely an overdose of me! Stop maadi!

Stories keep me sane!

Ola,

All of us have a mixed bag of stories, the one that we 
quickly pull out and narrate.Stories in the Telling 
it is because stories are always under construction 
and we tell them the best way we remember.
Fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact. 
It's fuzzy!  Nevertheless,stories keep me sane. 
Right now I'm loving basking in the winter spirit
and the stories will start rolling soon.