We shouldn’t use others as barometer of our success. My life is different than yours and vice versa.In past, I remember I had so much resentment when I practically lost 2 promotions within 3 years of my career. 1 year in pregnancy plus 1.5 year for maternity leave and another 6 months to ramp up…
Work Life and what balance?
It‘s time to strike out the word “work Life Balance” from the vocabulary. There is no work life balance most importantly after Covid. Last night I was again sleep deprived as a result of 7 years old who is in quarantine and thinks why is he house arrested and not able to play outside with…
2 years after Mum
It’s been 2 years since I lost Ami. I struggled a lot and went through emotional turmoil until I started documenting my grief on a blog and it helped me to channelise my emotions I was not able to speak about. Most of the days I am happy, go getter, strong and someone who is…
Can Women be perceived same as Men in Lead roles?
When I was starting new work project, I was very much motivated, excited and still am. I know it will be very hectic yet there will be a huge learning curve for me. I was happy to take on a challenge and did my complete homework before jumping into cold water. I am working these…
You are never too old to learn
A very funny yet thoughtful message I received yesterday “Are you still studying?and why are you wasting your energy in studying so hard when you already have career?“ I found it funny because I remember as a kid when I had my first board examination in claSs 9th and I was always motivated to work…
Working from home is not my cup of tea
These days people have my respect about how they can manage everything at home while working professionally too and I love seeing such resilient mothers and fathers everyday at work calls. I learnt many new things in this time. We have started to share a lot about our private lives which was not the case…
The process of happiness
Enjoy the process towards happiness and the journey becomes automatically exciting. I love to keep things simple, easy to manage and yet enjoyable. Today myself and Zayaan baked a simple cake for my husband’s birthday. He picked a beautiful coffee mug on Amazon for his Baba and we ordered it. Luckily just before birthday it arrived…
Mom guilt
A very good advice I heard today is: If you feel like you’re handling each area imperfectly, you’re probably juggling all of them perfectly. I don’t subscribe to the idea that you can’t have it all. We need not to be perfect because no matter how hard we try to be best at everything sometimes your…
I miss you MA
Oh Ma! It‘s an year since I lost you, last year this time I got the news you are no more! I am stronger than I thought I was; Watching someone like you who was strong become weak and bedridden, suffer and eventually drift away ate us internally every day. Last year, I spent two…
Down the memory lane
Today I was browsing through my old books and I got my hands on one of the book which I took from Karachi with me. I opened that old book, smelled dusky like an attic room of our house- Nostalgia hit me so hard and it took me few minutes to come back in reality. I…