My Niece…

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Two weeks ago my sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. The days leading to the event were quite hectic and crazy but nothing in the world could have prepared me for the whole experience…

I was never exactly a baby person, I never carried any of my cousin’s babies, mostly due to the fear that I would drop the baby. With kids I only do the habitual pat on the back or the pinch of the cheeks and ask them what they are studying(which is easier with babies coz I can skip the question :P ) But with my niece things were so different from the first moment I saw her.

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Life and Death…

A friend once told me that nothing in the world can be more life changing than birth or death of someone close. I believe that its the reminder of our own mortality that makes us think about life and how we are using or squandering the precious few moments we have left.

During my 25 years I have had a few moments of my life that were connected with the fragility of life and death. Each one of those moments taught and inspired me to rethink and reevaluate my life.

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