A weekend well spent : )

What a weekend it was – having absolutely nothing to do or may be, I chose not to do :D Worked on my dissertation. Slept peacefully. Cooked good food. Read books sipping coffee. Winters have stepped in : ) getting up early in the morning for classes would be a problem but I don’t have much of an option. It’s Monday tomorrow and am sure, most of would be not very willing to face it. Why can't we have a 5 day weekend? No point asking God for it ! I better ask some better things that I might just get : ) you never know when is God listening to you! 

I finished reading 5 books on the weekend and out of all 5, only one was worth reading – THE (IN)ELIGIBLE BACHELORS by Ruchita Mishra : ) A very simple and a light book that you would enjoy reading. It somewhere says – Arranged Marriages are complicated things. So are mothers. And so are relationships. It’s a story of an MBA graduate who is geeky and has a job in hand but is single at the age of twenty-four : ) and her mother is obsessed with getting her married asap. Mum shortlisting weird IIT and IIM guys for her but she finds the man of her dreams in her office – her boss : ) a Greek God incarnate. It’s a journey to find her Mr. Right.

Another book I read – Life is What You Make it. This book is based on real life experiences. It’s a story of courage, determination and growing up. It’s a tale of a girl called Ankita who was young, smart and good-looking and had tonnes of friends and boys swooing over her. She managed to get into the very prestigious institutes for her graduation as well as post-graduation. But before she could finish her B-School, she landed herself in a mental hospital. How it would be for someone who had been so popular and now, made two suicide attempts, planned to drop out of the B-school after being a topper for one semester. It’s a story of how the time spent in the Mental Hospital helped her discover herself and bounce back to life even harder when there she absolutely had no hope to ever be normal. Life cruelly and coldly snatched things that meant a lot to her but she gave it all a good fight. All this was possible only because she decided to do it. Mental health issues are still a great taboo especially in India. This girl suffered from Bipolar Disorder which is a serious brain disorder that causes dramatic shifts in moods, energy levels, attitudes and ability to carry out everyday tasks. It is usually hard to diagnose. The change in personality alters between ‘high episode’ and ‘low episode’. In high episode, there’s huge increase in your goal directed activities and the person is usually restless and needs very little sleep but does all tasks in a perfect manner whereas in the low episode, there’s an increasing feeling of worthlessness or emptiness leading to suicide attempts. For more information, you can log on to the website of National Institute of Mental Health – http://www.nimh.nih.gov

When we have a tooth-ache, we visit a dentist then why are people with mental disorders called ‘crazy’ or lunatics. This can happen to anyone you know. Would you add to their misery by called them a lunatic?

What would you do if destiny twisted the road you took? What if it throws you at a place you never wanted to go? Would you fight, would you run or would you accept? Ankita fought and got her life back!

And in the middle of all this, I have started listening to ‘Desi Girl’. I never liked this song. Okay! I guess, the thought of Monday morning is already making me go crazy. Time for me to grab a cup of chai : )

Have a happy monday : )
Love! xx