MOM (Mothers of Multitasking)

Is multi tasking the coolest thing to do? For someone as impatient as me, multi tasking is what gets me going. But also for someone as hyper active as me, multi tasking is what tires me the most! I'll give you an example. When I get up in the morning, I make a To-Do List in my mind. And while I am on task one, I am inclined to start the next task so as to reach to the third task.

Without sounding too pompous, I believe motherhood is synonymous to multi tasking. How else would you explain cooking, arranging stuff in kitchen, talking on the phone and keeping an eye on the toddler, all at the same time? And along with these activities, the mind is racing to washing clothes, evening class and an online deal that is still not out of mind!

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I believe mothers are very hardworking. They are like workhorses. They cook, clean the house, take care of the child, plan everything, administer the daily chores, organize everyone's lives, deal with family and extended family relatives, listen to all the problems of the children- from dirty diaper to hunger attack. Mothers do all this and more. Sometimes all this at once- without losing their sanity.  This is what serious multi tasking is all about.

So all the Managers and HR people who are reading this- HIRE A MOTHER! She is smarter and more qualified than what you can credit her for. Well her success in the past few years might be 'only' raising healthy children and happy family. But in all humility, there is nothing more difficult than raising healthy children and happy family.

Cheers to all the multi taskers. A double cheer to a multitasking mother. May you achieve higher index of happiness. Because at the end of the day, that's all that matters. Isn't it?

© Written by Garima Mahajan

His Daily Love

There are poems. And there are insta-poems. Insta-poems are those wee little raw, fresh poems. These are actual poems that fall somewhere between a prose and a poem. For me, it is more like a thought. 

Here goes an insta-poem. I wrote it sometime back. At that time, I could not think of a title for this. I found one today:



His Daily Love

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She was like a 'Rose' to him
He loved her with her 'thorns'
Every night he hated to let her go
And loved her more every dawn.


© Written by Garima Mahajan

Birthdays & More

We human beings are social by nature. Agree, not all of us. But most of us. I guess nobody wants to remain alone for a long period. And thanks to the 'awesome' network of social media around us, almost all of us are striving hard to get higher ranking on social media index. I am myself a social media addict. So this post is a special one, since it validates and strengthens my belief on real relationships vis-a-vis social relationships.

It was my birthday last week. And I changed my settings in such a way that Facebook does not send my birthday notification to my friends. As anticipated, there were very few wishes (on facebook). Quite frankly, I did give a thought on such an abysmal low count of birthday wishes on a social media platform. But wasn't this expected? Some hundreds of people wished me birthday last year because a notification was screaming on their screens. But this year, there was no such case. This year, all those people who remembered my special day wished me in person, either by meeting or phone call or through a message. Well honestly, I was glad that I did not have to reply to hundreds of messages! Don't get me wrong, but that's like a task. A big task.

Remember when we were kids? Or when we were in college? (Okay, young ones. My childhood and college days were in 90s and early 2000s) That was when social media did not bombard our lives There were just a handful of people who were close to us that cared to remember our birthdays. Come to think of it, what has changed since then? A handful is still a handful. Even at that time if there was an announcement of your birthday, you would have got hundreds or thousands of 'wishes'.

Thanks to our busy lives, sometimes we do not remember each other's special days. Social media and technology do come handy in such situations. But let's not get dependent on any kind of technology to such an extent that we lend our emotions and feelings to it as a storehouse for expressions.

I have no hard feelings for anyone who did not wish me. I still have the same love for all of those who did not wish me and trust me, this post is not a rant to express a displeasure. I am glad I have made beautiful relationships with beautiful people who would remember me- with or without social media.

Chocolate cake for me from Ridhiema's daddy

Fruit cake for daughter from Ridhiema's daddy 

                                                                 

                                                                                         

I had an awesome time and had some amazing food, cakes and chocolates. Wishes were few but love was in abundance.

Íf you love life, life will love you back.' So on that note, let's love the life that we have and the beautiful people it has!

© Written by Garima Mahajan