Thought Of The Day

     Sometimes things look good all in your favor and suddenly you figure out that you have to take a back. Today the same happened to me. It was 10 C below zero and also not too windy, and looked good to walk.  I planned to get out to get some fresh air and to top up my steps. Winter days you won't get many chances to add up your steps. We live in Canada, it's snowy and cold. We are used to it still, going for a walk is like a challenge for us. We have to bundle up in layers with so many things on and it becomes tough to walk around to enjoy the outdoors. Anyway I got ready with everything, sweater, gloves, woolen cap, stole and with my heavy winter coat. There are from light to heavy ones, all varieties of coats in our coat closet. We pick and choose depending on the weather conditions.  It is good to have safety as your priority all the time. Not good to have any surprises on the way. It is better to think before taking any action. Think through, ...

  It's early morning on cold wintry days. Cloudy morning, the sun is hiding somewhere inside his grey blanket. Not in a mood to wake up early. Maybe he wants to enjoy his weekend.  Snow is all around such a peaceful, serene atmosphere. My deck is under a thick sheet of ice. Red garden chair looks beautiful with thick white cushions. On the back in the flower bed of my back garden plants of pink Canadian roses and the blood red David Austin roses, are now transformed into bushes. They are now loaded with white Cottony flowers not with roses anymore. It is 10.30 in the morning, I am standing by the front door of my house. Very different view here. My red wooden bench is loaded with a bulk of white stuff. Hockey net by the garage side looks knitted with pearls in between and also decorated with icicles. What a beauty to behold to cherish. It is 11.15, I am at the lakeside. Water looks Steel gray in color at the front. At the back it is Beige with a golden hue giving...

    Today I started my day quite late. Not my fault. At our age every morning comes up with a new story. We don't know what is coming up, which body part is going to give us a tough time. It comes like surprises.  Nights are also the same. I mean on some nights we are having good sleep. Some nights we just keep on tossing in bed, checking time and waiting for our sleep. Morning or sleep whichever comes first, we are happy to receive, to avail our peace of mind.  Things related to our mind are not totally under our control. Sometimes day to day matters are enough to lose our patience. We get distracted. Start thinking, going too much into it.  The more we focus, the problem gets magnified. It overpowers our mind. Mind gets distracted start losing it's control. It gets mixed up with it's commands. It's ability to control our body, starts losing it's grip.  Body follows the command of our mind. Mind is not able to direct our body to go on the rig...

  New Year is still a newborn, just one month old. I think most of the New year resolutions must already be under the pillow. People must be tired of the ambitious rules and regulations they chalked out for themselves to follow. This is the story every year. We get carried away by December and start making a long list, mostly related to our health and body. We like to trim out our body to get in shape. Brisk exercises, strict healthy diets. Everything is there intact on paper, phone and computer. We make an honest commitment with our own selves to follow all that, no matter what. It looks like a fool proof plan, to get in shape with a beautiful figure. Looks like it will materialize in just a couple of weeks. Few weeks pass and we get tired of all that. Start cheating ourselves. We try to make ourselves understand that if we skip sometimes it won't be a big deal. It won't make much difference. We just have to go a couple of extra miles, a couple of extra weeks. We...

    Sometimes things are not under our control. They get out of your hand. We just have to accept. Today same thing happened to me. It is the end of January. Weather is not in favor. Snow and cold is at it's peak, 18 C below zero.  Yesterday was wind warning with 70 km gusts. I am skipping my walks nowadays. Safety has to be priority at all time for everyone, specifically for we seniors. Our body is old a bit fragile. We have to be careful while taking any ambitious plans into hand. Car not available. Our SUV needs some part replacement, was staying still on my driveway for a couple of days, now is in workshop. My eldest grandson is working online, has to go in person on some days.  He is managing with rental car. He rented Tesla. He is fond of good cars. He loves driving. Youth are youth, carefree. They enjoy time in their hands. They know the art, how to enjoy the moments with whatever available. I salute them. My daughter in law has to go for work in pe...

    January 25th 2025 It is Saturday 10.30 in the morning on a cold day snow all around with 15 C below zero. I have to go to my friend's place to get together in the evening. It's about an hour away. Nothing else for the day. Just make a couple of calls to my daughters. I have to make some other calls too. I will not do that today. Keep in mind that on weekends people have their own plans.They are busy with their own family things. It is not good to bother them.They won't appreciate our calls. Leave them alone to enjoy their time. We can call them some other time, some other day. I believe calls are an important matter and timing of calls is critical. We can make or break our relationships, depending on the timings. First of all we have to check the day and time.  On working days no one will like calls until late evenings. Keep in mind that we are not going to disturb them at their dinner time. People are with family, and won't appreciate calls at that t...

      Today is Tuesday. I don't have to go to work to play Darts. I am off today. I have to make some other plans to fill in my day plan sheet. My back garden displays a different scenario. Deck is covered under white sheet, the same as the grass. There is a thick slab of ice on the glass top of my steel garden table. No more flowers in the flower bed. It's so quiet all around. Today is the garbage pick up day for our neighborhood. All the green, blue and grey bins are lined up by the driveways, waiting to be picked up. Cars are staying still in the driveway for the orders to move. It looks like a very quiet atmosphere around. No activity on the ” Twin Towers “, I mean on the two tall trees in the front garden of my next door neighbor. All of its apartments look vacant. Birds are still away, not back from South of the Border. It will take time I think a few more weeks to rent out the Towers apartments. Things will change. It is 10.30, I am in my room. Breakf...

    It's 10.30 in the morning. I am done with my breakfast and with browsing messages on my Facebook.Time now to get ready for my walk. I opened one of the drawers of my writing table. There I found so many small papers with my notes and dates. I got interested, and started reading couple of notes. In one of those, was written, “ 14th November 2018. It was a small note about my journey from Croydon, the place one of my daughters used to live. She moved to Kent about six years ago. It was about my trip from my daughter’s place to meet my younger sister. To take the bus # 109 to Brixton station from there the Blue line tube to Walthamstow station. That was the meeting point with my sister“. It took me back to the days when my younger sister was mobile. We used to coordinate meetings at various spots. She lives in Ilford, London England. Now she is not so mobile has to use a walker to move around. Things change so quickly. We never think about that till the time com...

   January 14th 2025 Time flies so fast, it's around two weeks already after everyone was celebrating the new year. Anyway life goes on no matter what. Ups and downs, good and bad, sweet and sour, all moments keep on coming on the way. Life goes on. Seasons go on changing, we keep on flipping our calendar to keep ourselves updated. Nothing stops. Life goes on. We keep on losing our loved ones, getting busy making new relationships. Life goes on. This is the beauty of life. We keep on crossing stages of our lives sometimes with victory, sometimes with hard, bitter experiences. We keep on forgetting all that as nothing stops. Nothing stays forever. We are busy throughout our lives, until the last leg of our life. Last leg of life is a bit tricky. We start losing our strength, facing some challenges. Our nerves are not as strong as it was previously. Our body is old. Our kids, all settled, are busy with their families. Our friends are old like us. Difficult for them...

    It is a bright sunny cold morning. I am having breakfast and enjoying the view of my back garden. It's not looking like a garden anymore. My deck is covered with white sheet of snow. Grass is also under the white blanket.  Flower bed with no flowers, just with a couple of shrubs. The Canadian rose plant has no leaves. Beautiful pink roses are a matter of history. They were gone weeks ago. The glass top of my steel garden table is loaded with a thick slab of ice. The red garden chair, my son got from the Canadian Tire store, is nearly half under the heap of snow. So much has changed in just a couple of weeks. Weather was very cold and windy for a couple of days, 22C below zero, gusts around 50 km. Today is much better, still cold and slushy. Slushy is dangerous to walk, especially at our age. I won't take any chances to slip. My eldest grandson is going for his coffee. I talked to him to drop me at Tim Hortons. It's like a second home for me. The days whe...

    It's a cold windy morning, feels like 17 C below zero and the wind gusts 44 km. I will have to take precautions to go for my walk. I will do that later on. It is  9.30, I am  just done with my breakfast. Have to make some calls. I will do that now. Calls are important too. We have to mix and match our daily routine. We have to top up some other things along with our physical activities. To connect with the people around. Calls to friends and family members. To get busy with the things you enjoy. All this will help to boost up your mental peace. Your mood will get elevated. You start feeling up. That is enough to make your days. Life is a gift from God. To handle our life is in our own hands. He gave us liberty to deal with our lives in whatever way we want. Whatever we pick things to do is all our own choice. We can live life happily or make it full of misery, it is all up to us. Everyone has to come across some bitter moments in life. Life is like a...

  Today is January the 4th. New Year is no more new anymore, getting older day by day like us. Celebrations already done.  You people must have jotted down a long list of things to do regarding your health.  Strict schedules must be ready, especially for your diets and workouts. You must have chalked out spread sheets to follow day by day, week by week for this year. Just like we use to do every year.  We try to be hard on ourselves in the month of December. Especially the last two weeks are tough for us. We become like a drill master. Like a tough coach for our own selves. We try to straighten up everything regarding our health, our body. our outlook. I mean regarding our figure.  We want to look as perfect as we can for others. I believe that we have to think twice before making the list of our objectives to be achieved. To avoid with going through all that. The objectives, which most of times look good on paper, not able to achieve. Give a thought ...