Work in Progress Always

 It's become some what a norm for me to begin any post with "It's been a while" but going by my regularity (well lack of it) on this blog there seems to be no better opening line to start with.

Well what happened since April? I went back to Australia after 3 years! It honestly felt lovely but after I have come back, things spiralled down very quickly for reasons best known to me for now. Anyway, in September I did manage a quick trip to Kashmir which is always so lovely. You know, without a bias I have to say some of the best people with the best hearts live in Kashmir, at least going by my experience. I met a French lady who is married to Kashmiri man and lives in a village near Sonmarg, runs a home stay for past 22 years. It was so refreshing to meet her, learn from her about how to live with what you have happily and it honestly makes you think how little you really need in life to be really happy.

I have always been of the belief and lately even more so that people living in the city like us, are always chasing. Sometimes, I feel we don't even know what we are chasing but we are just running that rat race because there's no other way we know. And then even when you do achieve what you think you wanted it doesn't really give you that happiness from within that you hoped you would get. I don't know maybe its just me but to me true content is a life with equal balance of work and pleasure. EQUAL. and pleasure includes a lot of quality time with people you love creating memories of experiences and not things that you own. Makes sense?

Over these past few months there is also something new I learnt about myself. Apparently, I fear a lot. I am very scared and come across as very timid which often causes people to walk all over me and often I come across as someone who is not very sure of themselves. Even though this is an inaccurate judgement of my personality, professionally I have had to face quite a few set backs lately. I suppose in today's world where everyone is out there yelling their mediocre selves on social media and so busy selling themselves there is often not too many space left for the quieter ones who are listening more than they are talking and offering more quality over just pure nonsense. I think it is also important to realise that the world is made up of different personality types and if one person does not match yours does not mean that they are imperfect or need improvement. We are all work in progress after all

I head out for a 7 day, 7 city work trip next week, its going to be super duper hectic. This December does not feel like the usual ones where social life used to take over from everyone visiting from all over the globe. To be honest, I am done with 2022 and I have no hopes from 2023 either. 

If I don't see you before that, wishing you all A Merry Christmas a A Happy 2023. Thank you for still continuing to read my blog :)

PS: My wish for 2023, if I can be super honest would be to find my true love :) But we know how that's been going hahaha 

Cheers!