Smtimes feel thouroughly thrilled at the responses i get to my mails, thy r always welcome, but thy make my day today, tomorrow n always [hehehehe]here goes sm self exaltation :p"i thoroughly enjoy readin your mails and the thought process of yours is commendable!! And something wht you have written above is wht i deal with on a daily basis so thought will tell you about it , the kind of trust you need to have in a relationship and the insecurities and the paranoia and the frustration which ppl wud face more so when they are far away from each other is very much known and as am training to be a Pscyhiatrist, come across this picture more than anybody, and ppl do get better, all they need is a lil channelisin and as you rightly mentioned are we tryin to drift apart even before we try to get closer ??? thats the thing you have to adress the most and the sense of belonging has to be inculcated btwn the couple who are facin the wrath of long distances or may be even otherwise! So trust once lost like thought before is not somthing which can never be reclaimed but you just have to work twice as hard be ready to tke it that long , and of course as you know it is tough , but nothin comes eazy in life !! So all the ppl you are counsellin, am sure can be rest assured that they are in safe hands ( your's) ;) and can work towards a better tomorrow , it only takes time and effort and a good counsellor to guide them , anything in this regard which might need further professional help in the form of medications are welcome and once again we can team up like we did durin PU days :) wud like to congratulate you on your effort to get ppl back together !!! Keep it up , am so proud of you !! And dont forget if you need anything am around , keep 'em mails flowin !!! "Dev - an MD student specialising in Psychiatry, a dear buddy is a btr description..."I thought ur writings may cease after some time... but not only have u kept it going , U just have got better at it.. the writings are having more punch...
I think I should remind George of the anthology...to ur book.
life is strange, and its this strangeness that makes it worth living it"-Shemith [liked the last line, hence sharing ti wit all of u :)]____________________________________________________________________________
BP/ Baden Powell is a father figure to most scouts and guides. As a guide who did considerably well,having completed my Rashtrapati Puraskar by age 15, thanks to the commitment and guidance of Ms.Matilda, todays mail is about 11 of us, who were the largest batch from a single school to complete this wonderfully fulfilling and uplifting milestone.
And now, after almost a decade, these sisters of mine found me, its but befitting that I write about them on the day of friendship [not that these 'days' would make much of a difference to the fondness and respect I hold to my friends, if u look at it commercially the Hallmarks/Archies of the world would luv to find a significance to each day, as if life wasn't in itself significant and a celebration J]
Thanks to Sabs who created a community to locate these set of friends/sisters [its in our honor statement as a guide that every guide is a sister to the other], as this year also celebrates 100 yrs of scouts and guides, I would want you all to know how much influence this whole experience as a guide has affected me, I luv to look at the houses pass by [as I travel in crowded buses],I luv to trek, I luv to cook [ I started cooking only to fulfill a badge of ours] I luv to live in tents, I luv to gaze at the sky,I luv to travel, I luv to think abt the ppl around me… all thanks to this exposure, rigt frm my 5th grade when I went to my first camp in Besant park in Doddabalapur, I have enjoyed the independence of being alone yet a part of a larger group, waking up early to practise BP 6 exercises, sleeping late to fill our log books, being ready to showcase our tents for inspection every morning just b4 flag hoisting, the kind of discipline and complete involvement in the day itself in camp life is an experience unique and wonderful… alongwith each of the tasks already allocated, we would volunteer in the kitchen, we would create bridges, pracitse our morse codes, and learn to bind books[ I was rather clumsy at it, though I must say I knw how its done technically]
The best recollection is doing our Civil Defence program at Home Guards opposite to the Ulsoor lake, (now our corporate set train our campus minds in ERC[ emergency rescue cycles] etc).. ours was a more comprehensive program where we could complete this program only after we pass an exam J The uniform was another beautiful and self sufficient accessory in itself, it was to be worn upto the knee and had to be a specific deep blue and the scarves that we wore could represent a message we believed in or an event/jamboree we took part in, we had to wear a belt which would help us fix a rope and whistle which came in handy during our many adventures J…
Coming to Sabs n gang, this group was formed 2 weeks ago n you should c the delight with wch my mailbox invites these mails, everyday we keep shooting mails from all across, frm Tokyo to the US, most of us bcame engineers, one of us a model, another a commerce expert, and the team thinks tat urs truly is their fav who actually completed her PG as she promised long ago, just waiting to make them happier by pursuing my doctoral in a couple of years J
3 out of the eleven are married n most of them are working for our MNCs, I am really proud of knowing this set of totally grounded, charming and intelligent women. What remains constant abt them is that thy continue to hold on to dear old values and hope to be change agents in their own capacity, wow, this association is so refreshing …
More mails to write, but loads of catching up to do J they were the ones who encouraged me to apply for a writing badge wch helped me immensely, their mothers taught us to dance, knit and bond…just waiting to relive those days…
But, the present isn't nything I could complain abt, went on a trek to Savandurga wit a group of young campus minds, it was an amazing experience where I felt the energy spread and become contagious, we cleaned the temple and its surroundings, the climb on this beautiful monolith was steep and dangerous, the ascent being easier tan the descent, it was one of the strongest forts wch the erstwhile founder of Blore, Kempegouda built to defend the boundaries of our city, the manchinbele reservoir flowed like a beautiful picturesque painting in motion [natures bful gifts J] n we winded up the trip by visiting the doddaaaladamara [ big banyan tree] in Magadi, hmmmmm…all I can say is it's a testament to time and holds solidly to the earth, it reminded me of the coexistence of basic elements of nature.
Today, saw my team in action as audience for their soccer match, n surprisingly thy won, thanks to our goalie who defended the penaltys J did call up som friends to wish, n spent the rest of the few hrs of the day with my folks, my bro teaching me hw to make sm kadbu, a nice delicacy, n life remained a routine of pleasant n beautiful, cherishable experiences…
BP also stands for our motto in scouts n guides –Be Prepared..n in retrospect, life is definitely been preparing me to situations n circumstances I may/may not face, with the firm blanket of friends who will be there, n who will remember me as one of their own, just as my mind wudnt forget of the memories n experiences n learnings thy gifted me long ago…
Cheers to another day of friendship…
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