©Pranjali Bhatt

Funny, how a random stalking on someone’s profile can give you a hope. Yes, it did happen with me. My routine starts with listening to the voice of RJ Dhvanit. Amdavadis would easily connect to what I am saying; his daily “morning mantra” is so divine and teaches you everyday a new thing. So the problem is with me that I have developed a crush towards his voice and now subsequently for him. Odd, isn’t it? For the reason I haven’t ever met him in person, yet I secretly like him. *blushes* I was reading his bio from Radio’s website and the sentence “Remember- this too shall pass” captured my attention. Have you ever felt a failure or a pain that is so intense that you just want to pinch yourself and pray to be just a nightmare? Or happy moments that you could forever freeze and continue your life forever to be like that? I do. And I cry. Both out of happiness and pain. Failing in Chartered Accountancy Finals twice; I have had lost all my hopes. But thankfully, I have my parents

Whose woods these are I think I know.    His house is in the village though;    He will not see me stopping here    To watch his woods fill up with snow.    My little horse must think it queer    To stop without a farmhouse near    Between the woods and frozen lake    The darkest evening of the year.    He gives his harness bells a shake    To ask if there is some mistake.    The only other sound’s the sweep    Of easy wind and downy flake.    The woods are lovely, dark and deep,    But I have promises to keep,    And miles to go before I sleep,    And miles to go before I sleep. -Robert Frost 

No, I am not talking about people looking younger than their age; but people who actually look 6-7 years younger than their age. And now I know that is the case with me. I have like encountered more than 50 cases of now where the world reminds me I don’t actually look a grown up girl sorry rather an “adult”. Whenever I go to stationery shop the shopkeeper always asks me that whether I am in 10 th and giving my boards? This means I look 8 years younger. And then again I need to explain him that no I just love shopping this stuff. I have never been taken seriously in shops and malls as they think I am school going kid. I am in my last year of CA internship; in my workplace also all of the seniors exclaim I would look the youngest CA soon. So last week we had a trip to Hyderabad for some audit related work. We were returning to Ahmedabad in flight and the only seats which were available were those near the emergency exits. We adjusted ourselves there. The air-hostesses came to

We need men. We- mothers, daughters and sisters need men to raise ourselves. Most important role of any men is of Father. And that the bond of father-daughter shares is indescribable. I am not that type who would keep posting pictures with dad on Facebook or WhatsApp. Even I won’t hug my dad just to wish him Happy Father’s Day. And I might not want my dad to read this post also. So here it goes; my feelings for my dad. Dearest Dad, You are the only man in my life who loved me before I was even born. Loved me before I could open my eyes or speak anything. I am now 22 but your love for me still remains intact. I have always looked up to you, I want to become like you. Even as a child, I loved your attention; running behind you everywhere. I still remember the day when I changed my school, how you came till my classroom to drop me and ensured that I had a place to sit and someone as a classmate to make me comfortable. I still remember how those eyes were filled with pride wh

There are times when my heart wanders in all direction. Today is such a day. There is some kind of music playing in background. My eyes are gazing on the wall. Thinking of past few months. Yes, time flies by. And so do people. A part inside me is really pissed. 17 th January. So here is the thing about results. It feels like no matter how hard you work, some things aren’t in your hand. My other side questions myself “Had I given by 100%?” I regret nothing in life, but this sick feeling makes me regret that what if I just stopped my distractions those 5 months and gave everything to my exams! I felt like wrapping myself inside a blanket and sobbing around. This intense feeling hurts because I had never faced any failure before. I believe these circumstances define you. You think that even if there are closed to 500 people in your contact list, you don’t even know whom to call. Immediate sudden thought which strikes what would world say? Phone calls during such times seriously m

“A week in Mumbai”; with this shock I confronted myself. 3 rd outstation in 3 rd year of Internship. And yes I was the senior of two of us going for the office trip. A part of me was excited and a part of me tensed. And there was responsibility on me. The 1 st one probably to catch train on time, followed by reaching the right destination. Finding a lesser known destination is toughest in Mumbai. The time came. My train was scheduled at 10. Things were going on right! And I arrived on time despite the not-at-all expected rains in the month of May in Ahmedabad. But to my relief because of the rains the weather turned so good. And the journey started. Upper berth and book to provide me comfort, with cell phone; enough for whole night. Only a few more hours until I was there. The night passed by with hardly 3 hours of sleep and the station arrived. I was half dead by then with 8 hours of journey. Finding transportation is not a difficult task in Mumbai even at wee hours. The city

Sometimes I ponder upon that what makes us move on by a person who is no more your friend or any incident which is bad or any result for which you faced failure for the first time? Is it time, or the same person or memories or any result get replaced by something better in your life. Personally I feel that the 2 nd one serves much better. If on an immediate basis every person or thing in your life gets replaced you would probably move on faster and would be happier than before. I don’t want to sound philosophical. But it works. On a personal note January, 2016; not-so-good month for me. I haven’t experienced anything in my entire life that I had to face in January.  Still sitting with a hope that everything in the end should turn out good may be not sooner but later. Talking about results, I feel it is good if you face failure. It keeps you grounded and you realize every achievement in life doesn’t come that easy. And yes failure does hurt, it kills you. But fighting aga