tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8032730711141285672024-03-05T22:00:52.278-08:00musings and mindlessness Megha Punjabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140341164304491574noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803273071114128567.post-29525426603351947572017-07-03T03:57:00.002-07:002017-07-03T21:40:25.952-07:00True Robin hoods (minus the robbing)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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But, mother's lullaby is all he gets, alas!<br />
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Even today more people die of hunger,<br />
Than AIDS, malaria and terrorism put together.<br />
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The next time you see leftovers going to waste,<br />
Contact <a href="http://robinhoodarmy.com/" target="_blank">RHA</a> Lucknow, make haste.<br />
An awesome group of people, selfless,<br />
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While <a href="http://robinhoodarmy.com/" target="_blank">RHA</a> Lucknow<br />
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Graciously, food is coming from eateries many,<br />
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Megha Punjabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140341164304491574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803273071114128567.post-83006697905017694232017-06-12T19:24:00.001-07:002017-06-12T19:24:25.545-07:00You will be there for me, I know<p dir="ltr">You make conversations lighter, <br>
And my cheeks red with laughter! <br>
You would always have a solution, <br>
To a problem, which cannot be thought in my position. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Live life king size. <br>
Or your existence might just seize. <br>
Why do I always have to over think? <br>
And force the brains to shrink! </p>
<p dir="ltr">You also showed me another side, <br>
To my every stride! <br>
I have changed in ways, <br>
Which I can't express or say. </p>
<p dir="ltr">They say you change friends every seven years. <br>
It is my one and only fear. <br>
You are insane, <br>
And my main! <br><br><br><br></p>
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The word is enough! “Hum aa reh hai” As the people from other cities in India tease the Lucknowites , whether you are coming alone or your whole clan is accompanying you, will always be a mystery!<br />
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Be it a rickshaw puller at Charbagh railway station or that Chikan shopkeeper at Chowk, they will treat you with immense respect, and you would notice this all the more, if you are a non Lucknowite!<br />
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All of us are aware of the most fabulous traffic sense of the city, if a person happens to bang someone’s car, the conversation, is the most interesting one!</div>
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“Dekhiye agar aap hamari baat nahi manenge to hum aap ki walida mohtarma ki shaan mei gustakhana kalimat pesh karienge!”<br />
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Two nawabs of Awadh, are about to embark on the same train at the same time, but one of them steps aside and says “pehle aap” but the second one insists “pehle aap” and this courteous impasse carries on, while the train departs!<br />
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All of you have attempted to write/say a shayari at some point in life! Also you would never fail to find the most polite shayaris on trucks/tempo/auto.<br />
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Megha Punjabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140341164304491574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803273071114128567.post-50744454164447379552017-04-19T00:50:00.000-07:002017-06-07T23:01:54.329-07:00#Lahukalagaan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Megha Punjabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140341164304491574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803273071114128567.post-77243183247990231442016-06-25T02:24:00.001-07:002016-06-25T02:24:15.625-07:00Need to be fixed<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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different things from life, so nobody to be blamed. The comfort I am looking
for is not in things, I would never achieve them out of objects, but then why
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have been better, love at its best, all I need to ask myself is, what is
holding me from being ecstatic, is it more love? Or more attention? Or more
things? Am I this greedy, or am I too selfish, what about selflessness, what
about others before self? So many apprehensions, yet no doubts, I know
everything clearly, yet this confusion! Who will take me out of this? Or do I like
my place, and never want to be out of this. Because I like self pity, poor me.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">It feels like I have all the answers. But the constant pressure that I feel, is it only in my head? Nobody has said it loud, and I fret if it is ever told to me. I keep saving myself from several outcomes, and have a constant fear of people around me. I feel weak and under confident and mostly wear a fake smile all along.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">People love plastic, they love it if you do stuff to please them. But time is running, and I feel out of time to do things that I love. I am in a need of constant support , which I keep taking from a few. But I want to stand on my own feet, why this dependence on so many people for my happiness? Why can't I be , what I want to be. I am constantly pushed towards a goal which was never mine, so I can never be sincere towards it. It feels messy inside out! Will I be able to fix myself, no clue!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">but I didn't seek your advice, even if that's the case</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">that I fail to achieve,even with endurance</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">But I am second to none</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I used that ointment for a year,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I applied this and that, whatever I hear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did all that my skin could bear</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alas, the pimples wouldn't disappear!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">People give me tips all over the city</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They don't understand, I don't need their pity</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cry to bed with self doubt,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And wake up with just another breakout!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have not seen a clear face in the mirror, now for a while,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And have to keep going,yet another mile</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So for now,can you all let me be,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My skin is different , the hormones, not in place</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The glands so active, always ready to give me a run!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The best part is how does a pimple manage to pop out on birthdays</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And never forget to ruin valentine's day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I think it's every girls desire to have a face, spotless</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Yet it never forgets to depress me</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It gives me the incitement to switch to a healthy way of living</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I take loads of fruits and water drinking!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have tried and tested everything which can't get ickier</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would also like to have a day , a week, a month and a year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I emailed this poem to my spouse for his critique, the response I got made my day. Have reproduced it below,</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">"The poem's beautiful, and so are you</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Many of us grew up in homes where the toil of our mothers often went unnoticed ,our homework was incomplete without the sound of her bangles clinking against the unwashed dishes and her fight with the germs we brought with us on our school uniforms while playing around with friends and imaginary characters, never seemed to cease. Yet, we found her with the most sparkling smile around, running behind us with a glass of milk we never agreed to drink , and the effort to fulfill everyone's desires with equal attention without a frown on her face. And yes we always found our houses, spic and span. Yet staying back at home was considered as doing nothing and enjoying! Where a man's job starts from 10 in the morning and ends at 6 in the evening, a woman's job starts from the minute she wakes up till she tucks in everyone at night! But with the love and affection she does it, is taken </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> for granted, and never valued!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I remember, my first management class, where our professor asked us to give an example of a perfect manager! When all of us gave names of famous pesonalities, our professor failed to agree and said, "a mother". Yes, she is at the helm from the socks in the laundry basket to the lunch box in the school bag, which we never bothered to be pleased about. Instead,without any guilt, we never stopped adding tasks in her to-do list!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While <a href="http://ariel.blogadda.com/" target="_blank">Ariel</a> is busy fighting against those tough stains, I think India should scuffle against the prejudiced mindset of people, and let men do their own laundry because an unwashed shirt does no harm, but a biased frame of mind does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">With Multi Drive function, Tata introduces a premium feature, which had eluded, since its invention, the hatchbacks and could be witnessed only in luxe automobiles. The function comes with three driving modes – City, Eco and Sport suiting the driving conditions and your itinerary for the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To speak about the technicalities under the hood, Tata gives us a tried-and-tested top of it's line Quadrajet diesel engine, or a turbocharged ‘Revotron’ in the petrol version, both mated to a 5-speed manual transmission. With a 1.2-litre unit for 88bhp, 5000rpm and 140Nm of torque, Bolt enhances the suspension and aims to get a slightly stiffer setup to improve handling. In addition, you also get an independent MacPherson system with an anti-roll bar, in front and at the rear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Tata Motors’ intentions for the Bolt are clear and daring, they want the car to appeal to those passionate about driving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /> <br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The Tata Bolt has got character, and that allows it to stand out.This is a car that will get noticed, there is no mistaking that positively glowing and well etched front face. The slight power bulge on the hood, the wrap-around headlamps and most of all, the bumper with the inverted smile and the scooped out recesses to house the driving lamps give it some serious aggression. This car means <span style="text-align: center;">business and it looks the part too."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Oh my god! so cute and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">But this new look with<a href="http://www.flipkart.com/gillette" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: black;">Gillette</span></a> makes you
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Which also makes me your
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Husbands and wives share a very
cute as well as a complex relationship! In the start it’s all lovey dovey, the
phone calls, the texts, the gifts and the cards! It seems like a dream,
especially for a girl, as if her prince from the fairy tales has entered her life;
hence it’s going to be joyous ride ahead! But soon after the wedding, reality
strikes in. You are not only responsible for yourself now, but also for the
lost socks of your husband, the fuel in the car, the milk in the refrigerator,
the salary of your maid and the file on his desk! You may be forgiven several
times for your mistakes but you can read the expectations in everybody’s eyes!
Few weeks earlier you were the most pampered, spoilt, daddy’s little girl and
now you are a wife, a daughter in law and a sister in law! You may not even get
the time to talk to your parents and friends back home, you are in a learning
process, trying to fit in the new life, new work, new relationships, and a
different home, different atmosphere. It’s
like every day you are given a task and you have to do it within a time
frame, more so every time you try you have to face a different circumstance,
and that’s when you realize “ Did I marry to do all this?” well, you can never
answer to this question honestly and lie to yourself and move on!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Amidst all this confusion, you
hardly get time for your spouse, and with the little time you get, you have
choices, either to sleep, or watch T.V. or to chit chat. And then your mood and
the need decides, what you opt for, then if you opt sleeping you feel bad, if
you watch T.V. instead, you feel guilty! And when you talk, although you love
it, but you feel as if some things in life are being missed, you have no time
to have fun, you can only have fun with permission (which according to me kills
the fun part).You start to miss your previous life, that careless behavior, all
night long watching T.V. , those fun rides and carefree times with friends and
those sleepovers, you badly miss all of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">But when you get ready for the
office together, and when you drive to the same office with each other, (couples
can give anything for this), when he changes the gear and you hold his hand,
that sensation makes you forget the tough times, sneaking a kiss after lunch,
takes you to another world and keeps reminding you, you have a companion now,
who cares for you wholeheartedly! Driving back home late, practically going for
a long driver every night is priceless! The way he holds your hand while you are
driving, reignites the spark, reminds you of the very first time when he held your
hands before the wedding, and I get Goosebumps! And not only this, when one is
annoyed with other and the other person initiates the holding of hand, and then
start the conversation and clear it up! For me, to keep the spark alive, we
need to work upon it, not miss a single opportunity of rekindling the chemistry,
and make it a point that we try every day, harder than the previous day!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A beautiful relationship calls for
a soft heart and a thinking which might not be logical or rational, but this is
how it is! But every night when you get to sleep in the arms of your spouse, I
think that touch, that feeling is worth
all the agony, hardship, heartbreak, disappointment, effort and breathlessness
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can lie. Looks can deceive. But a touch... it reveals the truth.</span><br />
In the rush to keep up with life, couples can
become blind to simple things which can keep the spark alive. It’s not the lack
of love, but a lack of passion. One way to reignite the spark is through the
sensual experience of touch.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.pblskin.com/" target="_blank">ParachuteAdvansed Body Lotion</a></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">believes you can<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><a href="https://www.indiblogger.in/happyhours.php?permalink=bring-back-the-touch/"><span style="line-height: 115%;">#BringBackTheTouch</span></a><span style="line-height: 115%;">. But first you need to awaken your sensual self. Touch,
feel, caress, discover, #BringBackTheTouch. See more<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://here./"><span style="line-height: 115%;">here</span><span style="line-height: 115%;">.</span></a></span></div>
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wanted to wear to the office, and the servant has not gotten it from the dry cleaners, we can’t choose a pair of sandals because we have so many of them
that it takes time to decide and hence we feel, such an awful morning it is! The
kid in the house is at the breakfast table and wants to eat spaghetti, and says
no to fruits and healthy snacks, and complains that he can’t even have his
favorite meal for breakfast, mom! You ruined my day!The little brat of the
house is fighting for the remote, because he wants to watch a particular
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to Europe, which has been postponed due to certain commitments! The husband
owns a decent car, but the neighbor’s friend has a better one and has booked
the same for himself, still is sad, because he has to attend a party tomorrow
and has to use the old car. And thinks, God! I live in such a misery.The next morning the
wife demands, “Darling, I want a Jacuzzi, You know it has so many benefits,
from massaging to relaxation to a calm mind” The husband gently nods!</span></div>
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around 6 people! One of them is Babli, around 13-14 years old! Works with her
mother in this house, basically helps her mother and also plays with the
children of the house. She is a very sensible child, very sincere with her work
and whenever finds time, she takes out the books of 10 year old and tries to
read and learn. She left school when she was 8, stays at a neighboring slum. She
likes to learn English and listens carefully when the family is conversing in
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which a basic toilet with running water facility. Because there is no public
toilet in the locality, they are forced to go out in the fields, and since she
has started to menstruate, it is more problematic for her in those days. And
during the night, she needs to accompany herself with a friend or two before
stepping out in the fields. She also wants to rejoin her school, so that she
can study and apart from the school timings she is can help her mother with the
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birth in a poor family, subsequently, she has no right to have education, and
no right to have even a public toilet in her locality, cleanliness of toilets
is altogether a different issue. Even if certain rural areas now have toilets,
they do not have running water, people have to fill buckets of water and take
it there, and of course no cleaning which only leads to diseases and is very
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even share our things with family and friends, forget about helping someone
unknown, we all are so busy with our lives, earning more and more, that we don’t
have time for charity! We can donate certain facilities at least to our maids, ,
who help us throughout! But no! when we are already dissatisfied with our
lives, even after having all the fancy things, we don’t have time to offer help
to those in need! We are busy competing with our friends and relatives, not
being thankful for what we already have. No wonder, we feel restless and
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to various NGOs and certain communities which are working towards it, and take
it as their social responsibility. In a similar way, The Toilet Academy,<a href="http://www.domex.in/" target="_blank">Domex,</a>HUL’s flagship sanitation brand, currently runs the Domex Toilet Academy (DTA)
programme. Domex Toilet Academy was launched on 19th November 2013. It aims to
become a sustainable and long-term solution to provide sanitation that benefits
the local community and helps stimulate the local economy. The Toilet Academy
makes toilets accessible and affordable, while promoting the benefits of clean
toilets & good hygiene. Our effort has resulted in bringing the change in
the villages of Maharashtra and Orissa and we aim to build 24000 toilets by
2015 in rural areas faced with the problem of open defecation.</span></span><br />
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India, in the 21st century, still has 597 million people defecating in the open. This is mainly due to lack of sanitation facilities. Lack of toilets and the lack of hygiene amenities are the reason for feeble health and a rise in ailments. Women are most impacted by the lack of sanitation facilities in our country. They face major issues related to health and safety which also impacts their dignity. Blog about #ToiletForBabli and join Domex in their latest initiative to help make villages ‘open-defecation’ free.</div>
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pleasure from little things in life. Their achievements are winning a silly game,
racing till the school, getting that answer in math class accurate, be teacher’s
pet, be the first one to raise their hand when they know the answer, telling mom,
stories from the school and the playground, building that sand castle, drawing
that lovely picture and gifting it to a relative, cutting a birthday cake,
opening up gifts, licking the ice-cream, eating their favorite chocolate, doing
something naughty and blaming the elder sibling for it, never stop competing
with the people around them, watch their favorite cartoon, craving for that
extra love from parents , waiting for a praise and feel like the king of the
world, getting their arms bruised and pretend in front of friends that they are
not in pain and how brave they are! (Although going back home and crying in mom’s
lap). Nothing in the world can replace this pleasure not even money or power.
It is their innocence which takes pride in accomplishing petite things and
enjoying life to the fullest. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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complete when you see kids running around. But when kids are not at home, every
nook and corner echoes their shrieks and laughter and their presence is missed.
However kids can be tough at times. Not to blame them, it’s with age when they
realize what is right and what is not so right, for them. That’s what parents
are for! (Oops!). Speaking of a difficult child to raise, I was one of them
(Though, not proud of it). My brother and I were the life of the house, apple
of my parent’s eyes. My laughter could be heard even a few blocks away. I was
the naughty one and always came up with something to attract everyone’s
attention. I was the youngest in the family hence the most pampered one. My dad
spoilt me the most, by fulfilling all my desires.Everyone adored me. And my
brother was the quiet one, so he was praised a lot and I always used to be
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was only fond of cold drinks, ice cream, chocolates and Maggi! I used to loathe
to eat vegetables, so I hardly ate any (Yes, I was that fussy). I did not like
to drink milk either. For apparent reasons my power of immunity was very low
and even my height was not at par with my friends. Because of my wrong food
habits, my eyesight became weak and soon I had to wear glasses. I couldn’t play
outdoors because even a scratch on my arm would take months to heal. So,
whenever I played in the open, if I fell it used to be a hassle. All this was a
result of my unhealthy eating habits and because of my stubborn attitude nobody
could force feed me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> My parents were highly concerned since my
health was suffering. To begin with, my parents lovingly explained me the
issues I was facing and the ways of getting rid of them. I could understand
that what they are saying is for my good but I used to take a sense of joy in
over ruling them (silly me!), so I didn’t listen to them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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not leave them with any option than being strict with me. They made a diet
routine for me and I had to follow it without fail, which included a glass of
milk in the morning with almonds, fruits at noon, proper meal in the afternoon
and night, and a spoon full of Chyawanprash with milk at bedtime. It was not so
easy to adapt it but slowly gradually it became a habit for me and started to
like it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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could have pastries and chocolates and maggi! Within months I stopped falling
sick so often, started to play around merrily. I was not among the weak
children anymore; I could enjoy the rains, splash in the puddles without
falling ill. I made new friends, did not bunk school because of being unwell,
could be more attentive and need not worry about my health. I became hale and hearty.
All this took me a healthy diet and regular intake of Dabur Chyawanprash.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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difficult for children to stay under constant pressure of school and studies
and several other competitions, it is equally challenging for parents to manage
everything, they give us enough space to discover our own talent and keep
reminding us, the necessary things in life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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their children in such a way that they should be happy at the moment and even
their future should be safe and secured. Because sometimes what happens is, at
the cost of today’s happiness the child may risk his future but parents have
that art of balancing both the things. The child is allowed to do whatever he
wants to, so that he is happy doing it but also make sure that in coming days
he won’t regret it and be equally happy. The love, care and affection which a
parent has for a child is unconditional, a parent leaves no stone unturned when
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> This poem is in response of </span></o:p><a href="http://magpietales.blogspot.in/2014/10/mag-243.html" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank">magpie</a> tales</div>
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Megha Punjabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140341164304491574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803273071114128567.post-47756430547777906122013-11-19T09:30:00.000-08:002013-11-19T09:32:25.360-08:00A true sentence and more!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Amidst all the catastrophe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Make sure you are in freedom
from strife,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">You can’t get away from yourself by moving
from one place to another<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Yet
you can find those innumerable possibilities altogether!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Because </span><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">when you
start to live outside yourself, it’s all dangerous</span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">But
what’s life without any consequence,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Exploring
possibilities has its own fruits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Sour
or sweet depends on its roots!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">It’s
also like pure love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">When you love you wish to do things for,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">You wish to sacrifice for! You wish to
serve!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Besides, never to go on trips with anyone
you do not love!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all
true<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">Because
the truth is always see-through!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large; line-height: 150%;">It’s
always intact and coherent<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Above
and beyond all the counterfeit!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This post was written for Write Tribe - Hemingway prompt</span></span></span></div>
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Megha Punjabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140341164304491574noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803273071114128567.post-12273017014378470092013-11-12T07:11:00.002-08:002013-11-12T07:17:00.459-08:00Fell for it, nevertheless!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As I was walking down the aisle,
those 5 months just flashed back in my mind. Was it so designed from the very
beginning? Not really!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Going through various profiles,
for a suitable guy, was reasonable enough. Though, screening through various
bio data, each week was a tedious errand. Sometimes, giving up all hope, was
what we went through and then a few sleepless nights with a voice whispering
all along “God has a better plan, trust him”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">I think it was God’s entire plan,
when, on an early winter morning, my dad’s phone rang, as usual discussing
about a guy. Dad insisted that he was the one, and asked me to meet him. I
didn’t even bother to go through his niceties. I thought about giving it a
shot. I had a firm belief that, dad knows what kind of a guy, I have always
wanted and he must have chosen the right one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">When the meeting got fixed, in
the coffee shop of a hotel, I hardly tried to look at him. The family seemed
loving and decent. There was no proper question and answer session. And then we
were asked to have a chat in private. It was just like I was chatting with my
friend, I didn’t observe much, just that I was comfortable talking to him and
enjoyed. Rest I could find out, once we get to know each other better.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Both the families agreed and
everything got fixed, in a flash of second. I had many doubts and apprehensions
but I knew I would soon find out more. Days and nights passed, I was happy
talking to him all the time. He had a great sense of humor; I started to adore
him for the way he was. But what I call love, I really don’t know if I was
really falling for it. Everything was perfect, the way I would have imagined,
then why this fear? I wouldn’t say I didn’t trust him, because I did! Then
what, just because I knew him only for a few months and decided to spent my
entire life with him? Maybe yes! But this is how I had always planned. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Well, amidst the arrangements, I
hardly had any time to ponder over such thoughts. Days and nights passed like
seconds, everything got really frenzied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Finally the day had come; I had butterflies,
of all kinds, beautiful, ugly, colorful and gaudy!And when I actually took my
steps towards the Mandap, he moved his Sehra aside, and fixed his eyes on me, at
first I tried not to look, as hundreds of eyes were already set on me, and
then, hesitantly when I looked back at
him,I knew all of this was sincere. It was that moment which gathered so many
memoirs that it would help it, last forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">At that moment I realized so many
things, like when he is by my side, I wouldn’t say that challenges won’t stir
me up, but I know he will be there to hug me. I know even in the worst of
times, we will have the best understanding. When two different people meet,
they can certainly not agree on everything. And it is also not about every time
one or the other is compromising. It is about how, at times, one puts the
efforts to make the other understand, and at other instances let him do what he
wants to and occasionally, even fight!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Everything can never be perfect
or according to what we want. Situations around us will always keep on
changing, even people and places!But if there is someone like him, for whom, I
don’t know if it’s my love or respect, but because of the kind of person he is,
even if it comes to the worst of the circumstances, when I would want to cry
aloud in his arms, I will never try to be strong and be fake. Because he is
also someone, who I look up to, I want to be like him, not be mean and selfish
but be selfless and pure like him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Enjoy the Saturday movie nights
with him (however lame the movie is!) rather than puking around in pubs!
(According to me that’s not cool! ) For
me love isn’t only about cuddling and kissing! It is about how I look up to him
and always strive to be a better person, not for the world, but for oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Maybe the life will get boring,
but I won’t care, for, the life is being spent with the one, whom I love! I
don’t think love gets lesser or more, true love is always consistent and is
always there, with the every breath, it is there. And love will always be
there, without any rules, even if one leaves before the other, I know it will endure.
It will never get affected by the happenings in life, the kind of relationship
we have with kids, if we have any, the progress we make in business, the nosy
relatives we will have to face. None of this will affect our bond. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Words or actions won’t matter.
Everyday saying “I love you” doesn’t prove that its love, everyday hugs don’t
prove it either! Loving, loving and simply loving matters. The ways of showing
it don’t matter, showing it at all doesn’t matter. When the days come, when we
have to be apart, I would never long for his call, not because I don’t yearn
for it, for the fact that I have that composure and I know he is doing
something worthwhile, and when it ends, he won’t wait for a second and reach
out for me. Being sarcastic can never be an option, because I know I will love
him so much that things like this won’t find any place .Everyday compliments
are appreciated but never a necessity because I will always be the prettiest
girl for him. My nonstop chit chats won’t entertain him for long but definitely
not be loathed by him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with his selflessness, the two souls can never be put apart, because one
completes another in every sense.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>His love for me, really reached
my soul, and gave it all he could!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">As my tears of joy fell on my
hands, I looked down at the platinum bands we exchanged, a few months back, at that
point of time it was just an engagement ring, however, at this instance I realized
that platinum signifies our pure love which is rare and eternal, and will never fade.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Megha Punjabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140341164304491574noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803273071114128567.post-17904772764707256252013-09-14T09:58:00.001-07:002013-09-14T10:09:21.312-07:00Jeez , why didn't I think of this? or did I ?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The buzzer has sensors installed,
making sure I get off my bed. Its 2030, the world has gotten smarter, and
people lazier. Sleeping is nevertheless ,therapeutic!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Exact 8 am and my robot, knocks
at the door, waits for my permission and gets the bed coffee and breakfast, but
also makes sure, that I brush my teeth, before any of this. I get into the
bathroom and the censors detect my presence and the automated brush, the moment
I put it in my mouth, makes sure, fights with all the germs in there!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Subsequently, whilst I am done
bathing in my musical shower, for exact 15 minutes, the shower turns off! I come
out, thinking... Err... I need not think, I have loads of options to choose from.
Alas! The suitable dress is not in my virtual wardrobe, I need to buy it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take a look in the mirror, and on the sides
I find the site <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://bit.ly/eBayCheck_Extention" target="_blank">eBay</a>,</span> which has all the shoes, bags, dresses, suits, cosmetics
of this universe. I select one and try it virtually, I find my reflection in
the mirror wearing it. Nah! The color isn’t going well with my skin tone, wait
a sec, I need not change the color of my dress, I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>go in the cosmetics section and select “air
brushing” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I select the apply
option through the motion sensor. Tada!! I am good to go!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Yep! This one's much better! </i></span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> As I take a sip of
coffee and have the low calorie breakfast, the robot reads me the news headlines. Selecting the car according to my outfit is my favorite task, I check in <a href="http://bit.ly/eBayCheck_Extention" target="_blank">eBay</a>,
since it is a yearly contract of selecting among a number of cars, my favorite
is a vintage car! It takes me directly to my office, only after I say aloud office!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Even in the office, the manual
work is negligible, we just need to enter certain codes, and get the work done.
Robots are our slaves, until they over power us and make us their slaves!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Office hours are over, and I
need a break, I think of shopping but for that, now I don’t need to roam around,
browse the malls, so its no more that fun. So I feel like taking that ride in a
theme park! So I select my favorite theme park, for entertainment, buy its tickets,
from <a href="http://bit.ly/eBayCheck_Extention" target="_blank">eBay</a> just in a swipe and then reach there in fraction of seconds.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">After getting back, I am hungry, for dinner, I
decide to eat something homely; I log into <a href="http://bit.ly/eBayCheck_Extention" target="_blank">eBay</a> and order my favorite, home
cooked rajma and rice. And within minutes, it is on my table!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The day is over, everything has
become mechanical, still the body and moreover the soul needs some rest. As I
lay on my bed, I wonder - World has connected to the extent that it has become
smaller, paradoxically, created more distance between people. Robots have made
us their replica. No one is ready to share their love and care for anyone.
However advanced we get, we still have that longing, perhaps no shop in the
world can sell it. And probably no one can buy it. Because it is something
which is from heart to heart, and requires indulgence.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Everything that can be counted does
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">From morning cup of coffee to
the evening dessert, I wish I still had my grand ma and mom around, to pour
that coffee into my cup, with lots of love or serve that plate with scrumptious
dinner; the taste in their hands cannot be compared with any emotionless machine.
Maybe I can buy a number of things from EBay but not the human touch!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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that our technology has exceeded our humanity</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></i></b></span><br />
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Einstein</span></i></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The robot can forcefully wake
me up in the morning but can never grant me those few extra minutes of sweet
sleep! I can buy clothes and accessories according to the requirement, but
cannot satisfy my inner thirst, everyone in this planet and now since
scientists have researched, even on Mars, the aliens long for emotions. Maybe I
was happy one and a half decade ago, when our lives were somewhat dependent on
gadgets and we could shop from home, get everything in a couple of days, but
still had those feelings of love, friendship and fondness!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Love seems to lose its identity.
And maybe, tomorrow when my buzzer starts off, I can feel my mom’s hand on my
forehead, saying- "sleep for a few more minutes, you have a tiring day ahead." I
think even that low calorie and extra nutritious cereal, ordered online, doesn’t
give me the energy which I get with those words! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">I wish there was a buzzer
indicating the loss human race is going through. Maybe even Einstein is mocking
on us and saying <b>“Jeez why didn’t I think of this”</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">In fact he did!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Megha Punjabihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10140341164304491574noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-803273071114128567.post-87158446062555357622013-09-04T08:40:00.000-07:002013-09-04T08:40:04.376-07:00A whiff here and there!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Yes!
There is a void, within, which needs to be filled. Maybe it’s the state just
before you grab hold of what you always wanted to. Going through such a phase
is excruciating. It makes everything around you gray! You try to overcome it
but it requires endurance to fill up that vacuum. It might also be a sign that
something great is going to happen very soon. It is like that phase when it is
going to drizzle, and creates an uncomfortable environment, because it hasn’t
rained for long. As if, the earth is calling out to the clouds to start
pouring. Because once it starts to rain, it will quench the thirst of many. Moreover,
there is something extraordinary in the winds, which carries the smell of the earth,
the messages of the loved and estranged ones, also the hidden fondness of
enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 200%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-size: large;">Though,
I love the feel of the winds as it is, but it also takes me to simpler times, when only scoring good and
playing around was foremost. Getting back from school, having lunch, relaxing
for some time and then playing outside in the evenings was a tradition. As a
child I used to love the monsoon and playing in the rain. Usually when it
started to rain in the evenings, the power used to cut off, the thunder and
lightning made me so thrilled that I used to run around in the house with
delight that it’s going to turn spooky very soon. Mum used to shut me up and
light up the candles, and my favorite pastime was putting my finger across the
flame and flaunting to my brother that even I can do it. We used to play with shadows, and scare each other. And the moment when power went on, we used
to dash around to blow off the candles and sing lame songs. I used to love the
smell of the wax when the candle was blown off, it gave me a feeling of celebration,
like after we cut the cake.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;">“A good fragrance
is really a powerful cocktail of memories and emotion.”</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></i></b></span></div>
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are certain other nostalgic smells which </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">revive feelings associated with the
bygone era. Like the smell of the balm, my granny applies it sometimes and
instantly I recall my grandpa, I used to rub it on his forehead every now and
then when he had a hectic day, only I was allowed to apply it, because my
grandpa said that there was some magic in my hands which helped his pain to
subside. And bonus, sometimes I also used to get my favorite chocolate in
return. Greedy me!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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hold of me and maybe after years she was oiling my hair with the coconut oil, its
aroma transported me to the days when it was almost a daily thing to oil hair,
my mom used to massage my head with oil, and then neatly tie up my hair in pig
tails. I think there was more to it. It wasn’t about simply putting oil in the
head but it was love and affection. Nowadays showing love has a different
meaning, but we should try to convey our feelings through such deeds, it has a
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 150%;">Since I
have started earning, whenever I start counting my money I usually take a whiff
here and there of the currency notes, it also reminds me that , how on Rakshabandhan
I used to get lots of currency notes, and the first thing I used to do was
smell it. My mum used to scold me saying that don’t whiff like some animal, and
go and keep it safely. At that time I never understood the significance of money
but, naively loved its smell. And now who doesn’t love its odor, but only
because of its worth!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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day when my book got delivered at home, I was opening it and unknowingly I smelled
its outer cover, which reminded me of the school days, when we used to get all
our books and notebooks covered with plastic sheets, I simply loved the smell,
in fact during school hours I used open up my bag again and again to take a
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with beautiful memories, what is life without such happy moments, recalling
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me, do not kill me, and do not treat me like dirt. I am a part of you, I have
started to form, I exist, maybe I can be seen only through instruments but I
have started to form. Such cries are either ended then and there or are thrown
away after they are born</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Even j</span></span>unk is treated more appropriately and categorized as
recyclable waste and non recyclable waste, than girls. Somewhere down the line,
even the fairer sex is equally responsible for such behavior. The old rotten
thoughts which have lost all scientific validity, is still treated as the base
for decisions. A place where women are treated as a cause for not being able to give birth to a baby boy, besides the fact that women carry only x chromosomes and
instead men are responsible, (not exactly, but if someone were to blame) in
deciding the gender of the baby, several other marriages were conducted, in older times just
for the desire of a baby boy, who can carry over their names. This is pathetic,
and what is even more pathetic is that, this is being carried over from generations .We call ourselves educated, but our actions do not reflect the same. How do
even people think of throwing their child in a garbage bin, a well or a river? Some
are killed in the womb itself, without realizing that it can harm the mother
also.This doesn’t end here, when a girl child is born they are treated
differently, they are taught different lessons of patience, values and virtues.
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appreciated much, they might not even be given its credit but just one blooper
and they are indicted of the things which they have not even committed. They suddenly
become responsible even for the cricket match India recently lost! And only
because they are girls, provided they do
not have a bundle of choices, because no matter what, their responsibilities
come above how and what they feel. For some it’s a routine, for others it’s the
silence for not hurting anyone, for some it’s a daily thing and for others, it
has become a prolonged habit. But for the rest, who don’t consider themselves
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">But also, who do we blame? Because things have been like this,
especially in our country, like since Adam. It’s in the soil , air and water of
this country , they are answerable for things they choose to do and even for stuff they don’t do , but they definitely have no right to question. And those who do, might end up in any of the extreme conditions, of over powering it or making it
worse for themselves. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Being kids they are taught, that if a brother
is teasing or even hitting them , they
are not suppose to dissent , because you are a girl and he is a boy. Children do not even have that sense; it is
the elders, who put that sense in them. Another thing which is taught, girls
should compromise, should be given the smallest slice of cake, and still, should feel thankful for it. And girls, learn all of it, with practice and maybe they are blessed with that extra talent which helps them to smile through the
difficult times. Some do it effortlessly and some need those additional efforts,
some have it in their blood and some practice it continuously. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">Nevertheless a few, the rebellious ones, stand for themselves, believe
that they can change the world, surely they can , if not for everyone in the
same way but in little ways. They build a path which takes us to the
destination . And with this ride to the unknown, untouched and unfelt end comes
a new beginning, which we call a revolution.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">So, we can’t simply fold our hands and nod at the injustice happening.
We all can contribute by taking steps in our own simple ways, we may find it
needless and lame, but then huge change calls for a certain level of effort
which can’t be done over night. It requires self belief, patience and perseverance,
and the change will happen.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We all should stand by what is right and say that no more of it will be tolerated, and fight for it till
the injustice is wiped off. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Say no more!</b></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>When you find a lass sob</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>You know that, just wiping tears isn't your job,</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Instead lend a hand and take her off shore</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>And say - no more!</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>When you see the bias happening</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>You can't keep approving,</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>In its place, open another door</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>And say- no more!</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>When you witness inequality creeping</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Stand for what is right, without much thinking,</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Spread your lore</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>And say- no more!</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>And when you feel that maybe the deed is lame</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Do not forget that it is just the beginning of the game,</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Because the wounds are still sore</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>And say- no more!</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;">We all must join hands with </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 21px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> </span><a href="http://evangraedavis.com/" style="color: #cc0033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Evan Grae Devis</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"> </span>who’s fighting against girl genocide, who has really led a great initiative in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 21px;"><a href="http://www.franklintempletonindia.com/" style="color: #cc0033; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Franklin Templeton Investments</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 21px;">partnered the TEDxGateway Mumbai in December 2012. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large; line-height: 21px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>For aspirations have taken flight<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i> We have to mount that
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Toiling that extra mile<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>To spot the shadow of your smile!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Darkness may perhaps be a phase<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>For sunshine to ablaze,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Gathering the rays in a pile<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>To glance the shadow of your smile!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>The path can be quaking and boggy<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>And future all smoggy,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>But I won’t give up for awhile<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>To glimpse the shadow of your smile!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>For there comes a time <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>When in the wind, the bells chime,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>And we are not afar the aisle<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Then it gets difficult, to hide the shadow of your smile!!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Even when her part of the story
was veritable<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>She would smile through the
hassle,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Arguing by no means, should be
an alternative<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>This congealed in my mind, all assertive!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>She never let me do any household
chore<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Pampered enough, and was told
I’d learn when responsibilities appear,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Now whilst doing every errand<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>I evoke, imitate and it’s no
less than a magic wand!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>She tried to mould herself in
every situation<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Compromising won’t lessen your position,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>So my frown turns into a grin<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>When I visualize the scene!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Doing every work so diligently<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Yet so quickly,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Always made me marvel<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Now, even I finish my work with
the same sparkle!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Even unknown people came with
their sorrow<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>She showed them a new tomorrow,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Now when friends discuss with
me their disquiet<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>I recall her gestures, and make
them alleviate!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>She treated other’s children
with equal consideration<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>And never let them feel unseen,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>I learnt, there’s nothing like
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>It’s about how well we
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>She fulfilled everyone’s needs
with equal attention<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>And never got perturbed, even
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Calm and composure should be
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Emulating this in my life makes
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>She never scolded, she never
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>But she said a lot with her
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Eloquently yet naively, I learnt
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Which only very few can bestow!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Manners and etiquettes taught
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>However things beyond these
mattered in a plight,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Selflessness is such an art<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Which only a mother bequeaths through
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>One learns only when he sees<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Setting an exemplar with such
an ease,<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>Doing stuff against it, feels
like a lapse<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 150%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>I wish to follow your footprints
till my journey elapses!<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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