Category: Thoroughly Mundane
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In the Quest of Happiness
#Happiness, What does happiness mean to me? do I go looking for happiness? Let me answer the second question first, no i do not go looking for happiness. There is an interesting quote from Abraham Lincoln which I really like “Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”…
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Who does the laundry?
Bring up Bachelors… ‘Mom! Where are my fresh socks?’ ‘Didi! Why didn’t you scrub my shirt’s collar? It’s still grimy!’ ‘Dad! If you see mom ask her to keep my football uniform ready, I need it tomorrow!’ #ShareTheLoad the conversations quotes above have never happened in my house. be at my parents or at my…
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Lets Wash The Dirty Linen.
#ShareTheLoad “Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present … Eating, sleeping, cleaning – the years no longer rise…
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Putting my home in a backpack?
Somewhere there has been the invasion of my physical space, the space that I call home it is as if, souls that are not at rest, the dark forces have made their home and my entire house is sagging by their weight. Then disaster struck, the painters came calling. When we had to pull the…
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Not My Circus Not My Monkey
1993 the fresher’s welcome at the Management department those days included the faculty families, the four of us were sitting quietly watching every one, Rajchechi in a saree of the Dadar Market kind, Nupur in a salwar kameez of the Chandigarh sector something kind, Geeta with a salwar kurta of the paalika bazaar kind and…
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