bph: March 2026

New and Fresh

I heard one of the characters in a tv series say this today - "one of those moments where everything is so perfect and so wonderful that you almost feel sad, because nothing can ever be this good again".

It made me wonder. Though during the moment we are happy we don't realize or think much (like the above scenario), we tend to compare most moments in our lives to the past good ones and wish the current moment would go back the old way.

"Good old days" is a phrase most of us use.

Remember the song -

"Wish we could turn back time

to the good old days

when our momma sang us to sleep and now we are stressed out"

Reminded me of a quote I had seen many years ago -

"Don't feel bad it is over, Smile because it happened" - such a beautiful reminder 😊

It is Ugadi today - the beginning of new year -

- my favourite radio song I grew up listening to -

Yuga yugadi kaledaru

Ugadi marali baruthide

Hosa varushake, hosa harushava

Hosathu hosathu tharutide

Bevu Bella - bitter and sweet

Women's Day

Today is 'Women's Day'. I am not a fan of any particular day. As everyday is an everything day. But it is an extra feel good day As I enjoy doing rangolis for each of these special days, I was searching for an apt one for today and somehow nothing appealed to me. Finally I saw a woman looking at her reflection in a mirror and loved it. So here it is.

The above can mean different things to different people. It depicts so many things - appreciating ourselves, loving ourselves, respecting ourselves - everything else will follow only when we are able to do this - when we can look at ourselves in the mirror and feel these emotions. There have been days when I didn't go near a mirror because I would forget about there was a mirror. It has taken me so many years to be able to look at myself in the mirror and stay with myself!

It also reminds me of how a child loves looking at the mirror and keeps having fun looking at him/herself. A reminder that we should figure out ways to have fun with ourselves / on our own.

Of course this doesn't mean that we become self centered. But the person who cheers us the most will be or has to be ourselves. Waiting for someone else to do this job will never work. And we need this cheering to walk on our paths.

Colours of Life

It is the Holi week - the festival of colours. Our school celebrates Holi by wearing a different colour each day, so just like the spring in nature where there is a burst of colours on trees - new leaves, old leaves, yellow flowers, purple flowers, orange flowers, pale pink flowers, our whole school was seen in yellow/green, purple/orange, pink/gray, red/blue and white. It was a lovely sight, with a day of playing with colours, singing and dancing. I had decided to wear saree the whole week. Life is always about the choices we make, the choice to celebrate the tiniest of things or not to.

I started the beginning of the week with a headache. For a few months I have been waking up with a headache. I have been getting them since the last 20 years, but over the last few years the frequency has reduced. And now it is back again. I started analyzing the reason and of course there were 1000s of reasons Instead I decided to go with the FLOW!

I went to my Sunday morning class, did all the work I had to do on Sunday, wore a saree and headed to school on Monday and so on. What I am trying to say is that instead of worrying about the problem, I just tried to do whatever possible, and left the things that were not.