2025 new year , I wrote that, it is the year where I am going to focus on myself and on my journey to be looking after myself more often. The biggest challenge in the coming six months is staying focused on this goal. Things always seem difficult when you start.

At first you have the starting trouble, the laziness just to make that first tiny little step of waking up early. Touchwood!! I crossed that hurdle and how??? It’s Mel Robbin’s secret weapon “The 5 second rule”. I would recommend people follow it but it is all on you how to perceive it. Not that all days of the week I succeeded, but the success rate is not so bad!!!

After crossing that tiny little step, life throws you a little surprise. You are back to zero by getting a high ranged fever. Irony right !! Life always cripples you down when everything does seem to work perfectly fine.

If you do not rise up after the surprise thrown by life what is the challenge left right!!. For my journey to look after myself more often, applies to these challenges as well and I am determined I will make whatever possible to cross this hurdle. Even if I feel low, I want to let it sink completely in and then the next day you are back to the routine.

General feedback from all those who have interacted with me is that I can initiate conversation with no age limit. Be it a kid, adult or aged person , I can talk with them. That comes to the answer what bores me is Silence !!! I love to talk. Also that does not mean I would stop anyone and start blabbering. If the talk gets clicked then thats a non stop one else you can see it in my face , I want to run from there 😃.

In recent days , choose silence over talks to try out if that helps in a peaceful mind. To my surprise silence is not bad until you have nothing going overly in mind. Books became my partner, writing became more common.

So anything idle , that just makes me want to sleep unnecessarily or think rubbish is boring for me.

Daily writing prompt

What advice would you give to your teenage self?

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Worry less and live more !! Stop predicting each event of your life and then kill the moment.

When I look back, the best advice would be to live more with no hesitation. Do the mistakes, but try not to repeat the same. Even if it repeats do not fall under the cycle of guilt trip, proudly own it. I lived in fear of people’s judgment. Even today, I struggle to some extent to get rid of it. Stop blaming your fate. Don’t blame yourself. Instead, take pride in what you have been. Celebrate where you have reached!! I am proud to say that I loved myself a lot even in my teenage years. Yet, what is different from then to now is that I realize love needs continuous nourishment. It is not just needed when you are happy. Love yourself more in each stages , its harder to apply than to say.

Happily Married with kids and one of them writing now about it , still single and looking for the right partner 😁. I was born when my dad was my current age and my brother was born when my mom was my current age 😁😁.

I am a Millennial Kid or Lady 🤪. So I come under that nostalgia gang who always talk about how things have changed and worry about the future bla bla..! For my parents generation pattern I guess they got married a bit late. My Mom who was busy focusing on her career by completing her studies and targeting to have a job. My dad was the eldest kid who lost his father at the age where all his friends were dreaming of getting to a high class job. So both were in their own mental space where marriage would be the last option they would take. 

As I grew I would always get irritated and upset at how my parents are still a couple, what do they have in common (Not that they do not respect or love, the fantasy that a movie has given in a couple’s life was never seen. Also i never saw Dad and mom staying apart for even one day😀). But at this age now i understand why they are who they are (still get upset for whatsoever reason but of course they are my parents , moreover an individual with their choice of freedom ). My dad was piled up with responsibility at my age where I cannot imagine if i could take up that much stress. My mom was unaware of what family responsibility meant and the hurdles she would get in when job and family responsibility goes together.

Despite all these they have given all sorts of freedom to their extent and earned money well in a way that their kids do not have to worry or think about tension on earning to pay off loans.

So yeah my parents at my age were all in love with each other exploring the new hurdles , new drama !!

Ah thinking of it, itself is a nice feeling. But if I dive into it, I have so many contradicting answers. Like it says start with a fresh hot tea in a balcony and enjoy the view, have breakfast then jump to your routine for some time and then to engage in some fun or boring anything which you like and sleep.

But at the same time, I also want an energetic morning where I wake and then do some workout or exercise, feel the freshness, have a healthy breakfast probably a dosa with all the nutrients in it, then read books. After which go to your routine and sleep.

If I still start thinking more, my god the answers are again varying. But one thing is common in my ideal day, a fresh calm morning with no stress involved. After that whatever activities I do or not do does not even affect me since the morning was so good !!! I guess then I can say my ideal morning makes my day ideal or best.