Today I started something new... and faced the old.....

Go figure... or you can just call me to find out....

I am just exhausted....

Tough realisation that glass ceiling does exist in many forms in India... it might not actually be evident but it appears only when you hit your head against it... and it is very evident when you interact with people....

Most recently one of the transactions I was working on was dominated by women...but the transaction was lead by a man.... who refused to interact with anyone of the opposite gender.... so there was a funny situation where we are all sitting across the table and discussing... and I was explaining some issue to this man.... and funnily enough he refused to look at me when I was talking to him... and in response to my explanation he replied to my male colleague... enough to make anyone go mad.... I leaned across to my male colleague and asked "why does he not look at me when I am talking to him?" My colleague replied "Its not his fault. He is from the cow belt"....

In a country which is dominated by women rulers its surprising that you have people like this... meanwhile I am just nursing my head which just hit glass.....

So I had one more weekend with my sister, Christy and Baby George... it was so much fun.... we went to an amusement park in Cochin and had the best time ever... we went on rides... and screamed our lungs out... Christy and me went on a crazy ride and I could not open my eyes at all.... Baby George was ofcourse too small.... and was not allowed in to most things..i tried to distract him by asking him about his friends back home... you know Shanoo, Om, Mohammed... only this time he kept thinking and thinking.. he had forgotten his friends!!! and then quickly pointed at Christy and said "Christy is my friend"...helloooo kid.... just last month you had snapped at Christy for laughing at your friend Shanoo....well.. he quickly moved on...... and he kept asking for the pool.... but then we realised one thing....

THat Baby George is scared of water....at first I was surprised... at this age what fear can be have... but fear he did... and refused to get into the swimming pool .... and got in only after hanging on to my neck..... and even then Baby George was completely screeching when playing in the water....I kept wondering why would he be scared of water....and then given all my interest in past life asked my sister whether she thinks he is afraid of water cos of something is his past life... hahah... only to have my sister retort.... "he doesnt even remember his friends after a month... forget past life!".... well she had a point...

At this age I am a bit wary of people who get too close to me too soon... or profess undying devotion to me... I am just a tad cautious... what is wrong with this person??? am I being cynical?? I am not sure... definitely more cautious.....

I am also amazed at how fragile human relationships actually are..... There are so many people in the world who just walk away from relationships for flimsy reasons... and by relationships I dont mean male female relationships... i mean all kinds of relationships... something pisses you off totally and you just snap out of it.... and walk away... you just move on and dont look back... while I do think that is each persons personal choice... I have to wonder however whetehr all this individualism has made relationships even more fragile... for the weakest of reasons perhaps one ends up losing an otherwise good relationship....

Anyways, I believe in the old adage - if you sneeze and the nose falls off then let it! If things can be destroyed by a simple incident then so be it.. that is the life span of that relationship....

There are time when I see something and my heart melts.... melts in a way that I can feel little drops of my heart falling down.... and I almost feel like doing a skip and feel that life is great....

and most of them involve kids....

Vacancy

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