Looooooooooong time I have been thinking to write something but everytime I coudn't either decide topic, event or something............ but now I have decided I will write and write anything so...

Yesterday was my b'day, one more year bygone.. Everythning in life seemed similar and only that its 6th January something was special :) At midnite I cut cake with the smallest member of our family..my nephew Ayaan. My ever sweet hubby got the cake and flowers for me which was supposedly a surprise.. but i knw it all .:) It was fun and I loved it.

I woke up to a chilling cold morning, but only that Sun God has given me his gift and showed up a little admist the fog it made the day bright. The day started with hushing up to be ready for office, cooking, arranging thnings, bathing blah blah ...blah and an additional chore of attending calls in between of people who wished me "happy b'day", time was running fast, I was already late to my scheduled time but it was good to get so many calls, and finally I reached office 20mins late. Office was as usual some wished and some forgot and after a busy day ( which was due to atending so many calls, & also which made me feel I have so many people in my life who loved me) I reached home early , made preparation for dinner and had a wonderful evening with all my loved ones. With all his( my hubby ) special attention,affection and with gifts and so many wishes I really felt it was not just another day.

singers in making

Today I want to share my feelings about my other hobby or passion rather ... music n singing which has occupied my soul all through my life. Now this reminds me of something .. long back someone said to me hobby is not something meant for the masses it is for those privileged people who are rich n have all time n resources in this world to pursue any HOBBY, and for people like us , we can have liking for certain things but following it as a hobby is difficult with so many constraints. I didn’t get him fully at that time of my age but now his word seems true.. But let me stop this here as I will discuss about it some other time .. n come back to music and singing

Singing and music is Life for me, I always feel with music I can live in solitude also ....hmm ..but thn without Ashu (my hubby).. I think now it will be difficult .. :) so with Ashu in tow definitely it will be more fun and fulfilling. But with him around in my life priorities have changed and music has taken a backseat but still I have managed to pursue this passion in my own ways. One of which is watching the reality shows airing – “singers in making” and seeing them perform I feel somewhere my dreams are being fulfilled which was only fulfilled by singing at school and college events. I have even forced Ashu to see them and infact in these 3 yrs he has also developed a liking for them, but then the sudden increase in number of shows has decreased its value for me atleast. Innumerable channels with innumerable shows and so innumerable “singers in making... but where will this lead ... and don’t u think it is somehow affecting the youngsters life .

Going back to 1996 which gave us the first (as I think) reality show of its kind, “Meri Awaz Suno” host Annu Kapoor and winner was a young girl .. today’s famous singer Sunidhi Chauhan , hope some of u will be able to recall it. Comparing it with today’s reality shows it was simple without huge sets, great costumes and extravaganza it was amazing and its memories are still afresh in my mind.

With so many shows around it has definitely given youngsters a platform to show their talents, but where is it leading them ??
▪ leading to a more frustrated career of a struggler, was it not better for them to be content with keeping it as hobby and pursuing a more fulfilling career.
▪ Parents forcing young kids and pressurizing them to perform and win which has lead to so many mishappenings which we are witness to.

Making the shows go high on TRP charts is taking precedence over the real reason behind the show.
I’m not here to being judgmental about the reality shows but as a music lover and an aspirant singer, only want to find an answer to a question - where will this end and why the soul of music is bargained for it ??

Begining of a JOURNEY

I have always inspired to be a writer one day but.. could not make it happen, may be coz writing is a more easy and good way of expressing feelings for a person like me who is an introvert . so here I'm today writing a blog . All of u , reading this plz excuse me for any of my mistakes and wud take some time to be in sync with this blogging as I'm not a techsavy person n will do take sum time to learn all abt blogging... :)

So.... let's start with my blogs name Life's a JOURNEY . It is a simple line very common and nothing very amusing or interesting but I chose this 'coz for me Life when I look back at it is just like a journey, u travel so many places meet so many people known /unknown, some may affect you an ur life and some are non affecting. In life's journey you change so much with time and situations, u have so many changes in routes /paths u take , ur outer self also changes but your inner self always remains the SAME, and so does the destination of both life and journey.

Taking it further I think life has changed me so much as a person , the perception about life has changed and the way I look to it has also changed , this is all also felt by people who know me , and I also somewhere agree to it BUT... not completely coz still I feel my inner self is the same as I was always , but as we grow up we become less carefree and more cautious and conservative ... conservative in our thoughts but that is called being wise but I feel this "being wise " takes so much of joy out of our life. But still we r happy and content that this is the way of life ..but it is not correct and we should sit back and take some time for ourself in our life and think if life is a journey ..can't we take a "U-turn" and come back if we have taken a wrong route.. why can't we change things as we wanted it to be . Don't you think it's possible .....??

now to all of my friends who have spared some time to read my post , I would like them to comment on this as till today I have only written things for myself in my diary and never came to know hoe others feel about it , so now I'm trying to do what I said earlier take a "U-turn" and writing this blog post which is spontaneous from my mind and heart and is awaiting to hear your views about it ..

till then .. take care
bye