The time I spent with youIs what matters to meWhile you may not realizeYou’ll miss me when I’m goneThen it’s too late to reconnect‘Cause you’d want to spend someAnd memories flash inadequatelyBut I’ll be nowhere to be foundTears never will be enoughNor will the hooch bring me backWhy not just give me the minutesNow, whenContinue reading “Time”
Author Archives: Quotidian Blessing
Mystery
Definitely is a mysteryBecause we choose it to beSeems like a cruel playOf time and feelingsAnd may be of fate tooSo much of heartLost to dreams of nightThat never become trueBut who is complainingFor we’ve become slavesTo memories and lornThe pining seems intrinsicNo matter how painful it isAudaciously we continueAgain and again and againInto eternityContinue reading “Mystery”
A Light
Creeps in disguised as loveTakes over the mindDistrust settles in like moldAnd heart disconnectsTears can’t be stoppedSmiles slowly fade awayLife gets confused as hellWondering who could helpBattles become silent Celebrations are tiring Feelings are less genuinePain become more realNothing worth living forWanting to end it allFading away seems easy Than the burden to live onWonderingContinue reading “A Light”
Selfish Secret
It was not mine to give awayEven though I wanted it to stayThis selfish secret of my heartShouldn’t have been from the start There were worlds in betweenAnd I pretended it was sereneNothing would bring us togetherNot there was any happily ever But I was stingy in holding onto you Thinking we can create aContinue reading “Selfish Secret”
A Daughter’s Regrets
I don’t have many regrets in life. But I do have few of which are most pricking. I wish my dad was alive to hear me say “sorry” to both him and my mom. Even though I was an obedient daughter, I was never there for them during their early retirement days. I was bornContinue reading “A Daughter’s Regrets”
Third Grader
A third grader was perched on top of a table so she cannot get down unless someone helped her. Somehow it seemed like a set up similar to an interrogation room. There were three adult men in their late twenties to mid thirties that took on this little child probably with intent to ‘catechize’. IfContinue reading “Third Grader”
EWF Podcast
Yup, that’s me. Thanks to Executive Women’s Forum on Information Security, Risk Management & Privacy for the opportunity to feature in the NextExecPodcast, “A Day in the Life.” In this episode, Katie Margraf, Vice President of Information Security at Citi, hosted me for a candid conversation about my aspirations to be a journalist, my careerContinue reading “EWF Podcast”
Until (जब तक / అంతవరకు)
We say things we don’t meanpromises we don’t keepuntil one of us is gone Then we wallowin sadness and memoriesthat we should’ve madeuntil it’s just too late Our love is selfishsometimes there is nonewe take for granted until it hits us hard For the momentswhen we are neededexcuses are madeuntil time feels incomplete Life canContinue reading “Until (जब तक / అంతవరకు)”
1 MILLION!!
When I started creating content for social media, publication or speaking events, I never thought anyone would be interested in reading my posts, my blog or hearing my voice. I was worried that I might not have anything new to say and was tensed about being just another.. But never through this journey I thoughtContinue reading “1 MILLION!!”
Imperfect Leadership
I am not a perfect leader or manager. Neither do I aim to achieve any sort of perfection. What I aim is to go through my work day with common sense, some logical balancing act between empathy and urgency, expressing in a straight forward manner when deadlines are about to be missed, when SLA’s areContinue reading “Imperfect Leadership”
QUOTIDIAN BLESSING 