The Smell of the Earth 🌿🌿 The earthly smell reminds me to live, enjoy and spread happiness! *Yes, the smell of earth. I guess, we have something in our genes that makes us feel revived by the smell of earth. The soil, the leaves, the most usual thing around nature makes me happy.* This is my mom's water pumpkin plant. I was surprised to see how she reused the broken cage. And look, the plant is growing nice. *There's something in it, the broken bamboo fence, the d cage, the…
You got it, Mamma. Sharing some motherhood words from experience. Motherhood is tough in every way. And we start it knowing all of that, accepting the truth. *When people say, you knew it will not be easy. Like why I'm complaining! Well, let me say you one thing. Even knowing this is hard, we choose to do this. But that doesn't make it easy. Yes, we accept it and prepare our mindset for this. But that doesn't make it easy either.* It's like climbing a mountain. You know the…
One week in read.cash and... I feel grateful that I found this platform. Yes, it took me long to discover that there's something so engaging, supporting, and rewarding platform that exists. I was pretty surprised to see the number of posts, engagement, and rewards of this platform. It felt like I missed out on many things. Never mind, finally, I found it. Who am I? Professionally a content writer. Personally a mom of a 4Y7M old boy and wife of a loving husband. I'm not a…
Temporary entertainment and endless sadness. | Social Media Trends. We all know about recent social media trends. It's full of funny content, pranks, TikTok shorts, and whatnot. And view? No need to take about it. Image Source https://pixabay.com/photos/mobile-phone-social-media-media-2563782/ *As an old school (no shame to approve that), it always made me think, what's going on actually? Are this temporary happiness, entertainment that makes us feel good? Or it's just…
Regrets and mistakes; that's the memories we make. *I wish someone would tell me earlier, it's okay to sometimes make mistakes. After all, these are memories you will learn from, will cherish later.* But no one told me... I guess it happens to most of us. Because people fear to make us believe this, they think we will take life easily. But the thing is, as I found, it works differently. We should take life easily. Image Source https://unsplash.com/photos/M6dAnUgiOlQ But…
That empty feeling! *Did you ever feel empty inside even having everything in life, everything you wanted?* *Do you have the experience of losing something that you wanted for a long time and this made a deep blank space inside your heart?* If you are not familiar with what I'm saying then, congratulations! Life is still treating you well. But people who have gone through these experiences or still facing the phase know how awful it feels. Yes, you got it right; I'm talking…
And then...Life wouldn't be the same! People say, if you lose your trust you will lose everything. I thought, how can it change our whole life? Life doesn't depend only on this thing. But when life put me into such a situation and I came to the point where I couldn't trust anymore/a certain person; I came to understand people didn't lie about this. Image Source https://unsplash.com/photos/JaNd_obDte8 If you can't relate to what I am talking about then feel blessed. Yes, I…
"Everything seems to float in Grey". Life is a boomerang. What we do comes back to us. Maybe not in the same form, maybe not from the same one. But it comes back. All I know is I'm floating. Maybe I'm creating some moments. Some meaning and values. Or maybe not. I'm just floating in time. Image Source https://unsplash.com/photos/Q_UsyCoq3G8 It's not clear to me where I'm going. I know what path should I follow but not follow the path. It's strange how life is taking me away.…
Homeschooling and Raising a Bilingual Kid. *Maybe it will sound like an overstatement but I love schooling my son. He shall go to pre-school by now but because of this pandemic, we are homeschooling. Actively involving myself with his educational process is also helping me in many ways.* But that's another thing, I might talk about it in detail another day. What I am about to say today is about our educational system and raising a bilingual kid in this. **I don't like our…
Settle down!! *I grew up in a society where everyone says to a girl, "settle down". No one will ever say, stand out and make your path. It's okay if they don't say that. But the judgment, social punishment that comes with this is enormous. Not everyone can bear that.* Image Source https://pixabay.com/photos/nature-hand-natural-people-green-669592/ Ah...I know so many women from my relatives to friends, they give up, they settle down. I। Mena I have no clash if anyone loves…
Before you lose yourself, learn mindfulness. | This is what saved my life. I have learned Mindfulness in the hardest way. I was not the same, I had no connection with my inner self. Moreover, I always tried to escape facing my inner self. It was not like I made a big mistake or something but there was fear. Fear of knowing the unknown. If you have a chaotic mind then you will understand better what I'm saying. *I never considered being mindful, I didn't know how much it…
I say, 'laugh at yourself'. Do you want to how to melt your ego down? Laugh at yourself. Yes, not only it will make you easy in front of others but you will be easygoing with yourself too. Image Source https://pixabay.com/photos/balloon-hands-relationship-human-3147674/ *I'm that grumpy old lady in a group, your that boring friend who usually doesn't laugh. Ah! I don't know how my friends tolerated me and still doing the same. Maybe because I was the organizer, the saver,…
"Every cloud has a silver lining." *It didn't seem like I could get myself out of the black hole. And how could I even believe that? Didn't I was the person who put myself into that black hole. So I lost hope and thought that is my fate.* But not for long... It didn't take me much longer to figure out the way out. It was not like I could see the silver lining but I could feel it. And walk on the way. My words may seem drivel but take a look at your life and I believe, it…
Materialistic society, our education system, and some mindful thoughts. *I wish our school system would teach more about mind, soul, and spirituality. Look at our education system! Everything is related to business, economy, and other bookish studies. Even at home, we teach our kids, actively or passively, to fit in the consumeristic world. I'm not saying those studies are less important. But only focusing on them brings a huge gap in understanding what matters most in…
Realism can be painful, not always helpful. I'm not sure if it's a phase or I'm gradually becoming a pessimist. I was never hardcore optimistic not too pessimistic also. I was in the middle ground and the bookish name of this situation is 'realist'. *Maybe I'm too realistic to always try to find the connection and make the future path depending on the connection. But what if I fail to connect anymore. There would be a crash in the whole system. I guess this is what happens…
A piece of me. What do you want? Only the good side of me? Every single time? Oh, that would be a piece of me. Would you be happy with that piece? -- Yes, I would. mage Source https://www.pexels.com/photo/reflection-of-woman-s-eye-on-broken-mirror-2282000/ Years passes by, a dark night came. Everything seemed different. That piece of me was not sure how to face the reality anymore. The person who decided to be with that piece start to think me useless. Yes, I was. Coz I…
What makes you unhappy? | Talking about a way out from unhappiness! I was reading an article the other day and found a really interesting discussion there. It was about happiness. *They say it's easy to talk about what makes us happy, it's easy to find the reasons and feel in that way as well. But when we talk about unhappiness, we become unsure. But finding what makes us unhappy is more essential so that we can avoid the trigger and find a way out.* I totally agree. There…
We judge the world in terms of 'Yesterday' but the world is living in 'Today'! *Mind, perception and our would - all these are so different in each one of us. Sometimes it surprises me a lot seeing how fast the world is changing, how much we are coping. No need to say that we are behind.* Maybe because we have a mindset of yesterday, we see the world what happened in past. And why not it be? We will judge, see the world based on our acquired knowledge. So when I see…
Quick Learning Skills to Keep Up with this Crypto world. No one told me that I have to consume so much content to keep up with this crypto world. I mean literally every single day, I read so much content, so much crypto news. But still feels like I know nothing about it. I'm also in not many places. I only can imagine how people are keeping up with so many things at once. Only quick learning skills can make it possible, right? Image Source…
If we could taste life, it would taste like blood, sweat, and tears. *I can remember when our parents used to say they don't feel like the festive season is the same as they used to when they were younger. This statement always used to make me surprised thinking, how could someone not feel the warmth of festive. And in my head, I promised myself I will not end up becoming the same feelingless as my parents.* Ah, I was a poor soul who doesn't have any knowledge how sour…
Physically Disciplining Children and My Thoughts. I got to know that one of my 'cousin sister' is punishing her 5 years old son physically. It's aching my heart. I'm feeling discomfort till then. First, I was so angry. But after a few hours, I make myself understand that; maybe she is also feeling many mental health issues. She gave birth to her second child four months ago. And all this started since then. *It's very common in our culture to physically punish children to…
Grateful to read.cash community. It's been just three weeks since I joined read.cash but it feels like I became part of the community! I have said in one of my previous articles how read.cash is different from any other platform and why it means a lot to me. You can read the article [Here] if you want. This is a community where I got support from the very first day. I'm not talking only about financial support. We who are into blogging can relate to how much it means when…
I hold myself back from a few things and I'm not missing out!! *People say, "How could I live without this or that?"* You can. We can live basic, we can leave so many things we always think we couldn't live without them. Need example? *Didn't you lose someone close? Didn't you leave something that you loved once?* It's because we can. You may say that it creates a deep hole in our hearts, makes us feel empty inside. Yes, they can. But it's also true that many times we learn…
What are your excuses? **Excuses bring a lot more excuses.** *I was thinking the other day about my excuses. I interest myself in so many things that it makes me feel like I am lagging in life. Without valid reason or without making excuses I can't proceed. So I was calculating if I am making excuses right.* Yes, there is a fine line between making false excuses and doing this in the right way. I don't know what do you think but I believe so. And I always believed that if I…
We see the world the way we are! *2003, Serena Williams was playing opposite of her sister Venus Williams. She successfully defended her title - Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles.* I can remember watching the game on TV. A few days later, in a cousin's hangout, we talked about the game and how Selena going to be the next big tennis role model. One of my 'cousin brother' didn't know about the game nor did he knows what was the result. It surprised me coz he was not…
Living under the rock! *I'm here in crypto-based blogging/social platform, doing blogging, and nothing else. Not mining any kind of crypto, not doing trading, not into NFTs, or any kind of gaming.* If this is what makes me 'living under the rock' then I can't disagree with it. I mean, I guess it's okay just to blog and do no other crypto stuff. Yes, having knowledge about it can open many windows. But you have to approve that we all are not the same, we have different…
Holiday and some family traditions that I miss. *Holiday means a lot of fun, the family gets to gather, having good food, visiting places, and whatnot. It always makes me feel great to see different cultural rituals, family traditions during holidays.* I miss the warmth of holidays so much. The more we mature the different it feels, no? Now holidays are full of responsibilities. I don't mind that. But not being with the family sometimes make me feel down. Like during this…
There's nothing wrong if you are not a Warrior. We were born different. Yes, I believe so. Otherwise, I will get to see the same reflection of thoughts in others but I don't. And then we become more and more different because of the influence of so many other things as we grow up. Some of us get the tag 'loser' and some others 'winner'. image source https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-black-pants-and-black-and-white-sneakers-sitting-on-chair-6396259/ I sometimes try to read…
If I was you, would I want to be 'Me'? I'm certain about this answer. The answer is NO. Wondering why so? *It's not like that I don't like myself. I do love myself actually. But I'm still not there as a person where I set my standard. I have a long way to go.* Image Source https://unsplash.com/photos/yB7ghV4dSa4 And if I don't want to be me then I believe, there would be no one who wants that too. I sometimes try to see myself from others' perspectives. I still don't see the…
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