In the end..it all boils down

Yes...I'm back after a break and am thoroughly relieved. In life, we sometimes doubt ourselves and keep questioning our terrific human abilities - the limits our mind and body can go to. But sometimes in stretching oneself, we realise what awesome potential lies within us. Each one of us, if we only keep the faith.

When I came to Delhi, I didn't find the connect with this city of my birth. I was told of all sorts of rottenness that pervades its streets. Also, I had taken up a 3-year course to occupy my time. Besides all of that, I had left people I loved and a career that I thought was tailor-made for me. But in the last few days I find myself realising another beauteous aspect of life:

• I've given my exams and I know I still have the "stress-free" academic in me...

• I've learnt to find my way in the Delhi Metro, and know that I can manage

• I've switched careers and I realise that, as Deepak Chopra says, we can fall in love more than once and it's not always infidelity!

• I've met new people and I realise that life has strange way of making up to you..it's like a soulmate, who sometimes hurts you real bad, only to turn back and give you the most soul-satisfying hug..I absolutely LUURRVVE my folks back at DK. It'll be a LONG list if I start to pen names, but without these peeps, Delhi would not have been the same.

Yes, I know there are more challenges ahead. But I'll manage, we all can. It's about positive reinforcement - our brain is like a lovable, incorrigible little child. It needs a constant dose of hope. Amen.

PS - On that note I decided to pamper myself with some TLC - Tender Loving Care. After all, as Oscar Wilde says, "loving oneself is an eternal romance"!