I am blessed

Was reading an article the other day about how everyone complains about things they don't have... How we keeping dwelling on how our lives would be better if we had more things but forget to acknowledge everything that we already have and how blessed we are to have them. .. It's only when we lose it that we miss what we had. ...

I don't want to be one of those who keeps wanting more and never happy with what she has. ... It is ok to want more,  that's ambition. . But it's also important to acknowledge what we have and be thankful for it. ..Because believe it  or not, everything that you get is a blessing and you get it when you are ready for it... and you always get what you really want... You might get it a little late but if you want it really bad you will get it.

In hindsight everything is clear. . . There are so many things that I've wanted really bad and I have got it... Most of them I've fought for. ..
There is this incident I remember where u had been to tarot reader and she told me that I will not be able to get the career I wanted. ... In my mind I was thinking "like hell I won't"... At that time I was trying hard to get into retail and really wanted to be a buyer. .. and I really also wanted to work in dubai. ...I tried really hard. .. But as I had zero expedience in buying no one wanted to give me the job,  let alone anyone in dubai wanting to hire me... The Dubai guys told me that I don't have enough exp that I should try again in a few yrs. .. But I kept fighting for it. .. Then ONLY happened.... an international brand newly introduced in India. .. and my boss had hired me for my passion & potential and was happy to teach me what I didn't know. ..a month later I was buying in Denmark. .. How is that for getting what you really want?  :D
2 yrs later the same company from dubai that had rejected me 3 times for 3 of their concepts finally hired me for a concept that I didn't really believe I was eligible for. .. SHOES. .. I moved from a garment background to shoes, from ONLY to SHOEMART,  from India finally to DUBAI .... How is that for getting what you really really want ?😆
I am blessed,  absolutely blessed. ...God's favourite child. .. He gives me everything but he also remembers not to spoil me in the process. .. He has taught me that I need to work for everything that I want and I'm thankful for it. .. There are some things missing but I'm not sad because I have come to accept that they will come to me when it is time , when I'm ready. Until then I should be happy with what I have and most important enjoy what I have. Because what God gives he can take away too.

When my childhood caught up with me

I am home for the holidays now, after spending one full year in Dubai. Mumbai is good it will always be home but Dubai feels more like home now.

This time being in Mumbai was all about spending time with my parents. I know they miss me loads and i also know that mum will cry again when i leave this time around, hence i have literally not left the house to go and meet any of my other friends. But last Sunday 2 of my childhood friends visited me at home for lunch. Tejasvi and her brother Aditya. Had been a year since i met Teju and around 4yrs since i met Adi as he lives in Miami now. But its been ages since all 4 of us had been together, Teju, Adi, Isha(my sis) and me.

I think now-a-days no meeting is complete without people comparing their phones and Hi-fiving because we have the same model. Teju and Isha the NEXUS and Adi and me the galaxy S4. What to say, its the ancient habit woven into us through evolution - "Who has the bigger one?"
Everything was pure nostalgia after the phone comparing session. The games we played as kids, the school we went to, the fights we had the, the problems we had and the problems the kids have now, the simple life with no mobile phones or Xboxes. Life was so good back then, so simple with no worries. I mean all you had to worry about was your homework and exams. We wanted to grow up fast so that we could earn our own money and buy our own things, because being a kid sucked apparently. We talked about our neighbors, their dogs, the annoying little kids, the affairs and the colony stud.

It was a Sunday well spent with lots of joke and laughter. It felt good that in the busy lives that we all spend, 4 friends found time to go back to their childhood :)