Just a moment...

There will be a time in your life, when you realise that a year isn't as long as it used to be when you were younger. A day will be sometimes longer than a year and at some crucial turning points in your life - a moment will seem like eternity.
Then on other days you'll look back at all the years gone by and feel that they've all vanished in a rush - the syndrome the world suffers from :)

On other days when you have the time to sip your hot cup of chai or actually smell the coffee from your cup - you'll muse at the banality of it all.

You'll think of faces and voices who were a part of everyday life while growing up and are now just Facebook profiles on your ever growing friend list, profiles that you visit to just keep in touch with your own fading memories and not really those people.

You'll come to realise the importance of context and in the same breath understand the importance of the freedom from it at times - these are the times you'll take off on journeys of discovering the unexplored...

And as the years pass, you'll realise that you never remember the year - just some special moments from all the years gone by and even then you will not take the time from your rushed life to create more special moments - the ones which defined your past - the ones which will define your future - the only ones you'll remember when many more years have passed...

Sanchita Johri

Welcome Home!

Home will never be a place like we drew in art class,
It will usually never have mountains behind it, a white fence around it and a rainbow above it...
Sometimes it may not even have a door or roof,

For sometimes home is a person, sometimes it's a warm meal served with love and sometimes it just a quiet place which makes you feel at ease.

Home isn't and should never be a place you need to be a certain way or not be a certain way, it's a place where you can just be...
As a home is not a house, just like love is not a set of rules, family isn't by blood and warmth isn't something that surrounds fireplaces in the biggest of mansions...

So go where the heart is warmed, not by the food or the gifts or the lack of them - but warmed genuinely by the care, the concern and the feeling of belonging - not a fleeting one- but one that remains long after you've left it behind.

For sometimes life is spent in not acknowledging truths we've known and that in short is called a life wasted :) So while you invest in a house don't forget to build homes along the way for those are the only ones that truly protect you from inclement weather :)

Sanchita Johri

The Best Gift!

Time is the most valuable commodity! Spend it wisely - spend it with those who lift you up, spend it where you find happiness and spend it living your life. 
For before you know it - it will be wasted on people, situations and places you don't need to dwell on. It's a gift - one that you give others but most importantly give to yourself. 
Leave behind toxic residue, let it be eroded with the winds of time and let the winds power your ship to set sail in only one direction - the one which makes you happy - with whatever and whoever makes life happy :) 

Don't follow the rule book, someone else wrote it - you'll waste time navigating the maze. For those who preach, do not practice and life is too short to waste on cameos, so be the protagonist - set sail - live it up - your journey is your own :)

Sanchita Johri