Summer Nostalgia

Where did all the summer fun go??

I miss those days when summer vacations were a much awaited affair. All the cousins getting together at one place to have a month long blast. Lazy afternoons and endless fun. Buckets of mangos and ice lolly and never ending games and fights. Chor sipahi and evening gali cricket , nothing could stop us from playing not even the scorching heat of mid june.  But today, i see children bound to summer schools and activities. Children are busy more than ever competing, studying and learning to get that extra edge.

Children deserve a break too and so do their parents who are mostly running around from one tuition to other lesson class. The exhausting circle is never ending and the worst part of the whole drama is most of these extra classes serve no purpose, but they do over burden the child and burn a hole in parents pocket.

Summers should be free of apps and internet, days should be full of joy and delight. Children these days are so absorbed in TV and Tablets that they are missing out on the whole part of being a child is to be not chained to one place.

Let children be children. Lets not take away their childhood with too much of vain activities.

Hilarious excuses for not doing homework

Working for projectsforschool.com, i meet with many teachers and educators and we get talking about how we deal with making learning fun.

The best is when they start explaining how their students hate doing homework and come up with very interesting and creative excuses.

1. I was just finishing my homework and mom spilled water on it as she was serving dinner at the same table
2. I took  my holiday homework to my holidays and left it in the hotel
3. My dog ate my homework
4. I ran out of all the pencils
5. Ultimate is my mom was too tired to do it for me ( that was from 3^rd grader)
6. My mother teared my notebook to scribble a phone number
7. I gave it to my friend and she lost it
8. I didn’t wanted to increase my teachers workload
9. I was not well last night
10. My little sister tore my notebook
11. And my favourite is plain and simple “ it was too boring so didn’t feel like doing it”

Un-Learn: Working on the laptop 14 hrs everyday day , the ...

Un-Learn:

Working on the laptop 14 hrs everyday day , the ...: Working on the laptop 14 hrs everyday day , the noble idea of starting again with the “it” thing Start up. Its been almost an year now...

Working on the laptop 14 hrs everyday day , the noble idea of starting again with the “it” thing Start up.

Its been almost an year now and we are still struggling. The journey has been a lonely one. Especially for me. I have lost touch with most of my friends. My family is angry with me for the decision of leaving a stabilised job and career.

I have had a few bitter short relationships in a futile and clumsy effort to hold on to something which has left me more bereft than ever. I used to be a pen and paper gal and now laptop actually occupies all of my lap all the time.

The shift started with much zest to do something disruptive and the idea of changing the world and making it a better place.

To live alone comes with a package of its own. You stop laughing. You stop being silly. Your colleagues are overly criticising, you lose the child in you. Because you put up a mask of all knowing entrepreneur, when inside you are scared and alone.

I come from a very cushioned background. I used to be a happy go lucky person who never thought what would happen tomorrow. Now tomorrow scares me.

Words were my friends once, they helped me to be me and now i don’t know if i am me anymore. People tell you when you reach the top it is lonely up there but no one actually tells you the journey is more painful. You lose an inch of belief in your vision everyday while scaling up the mountain.

People say make failures your friend but i lost my friends when i started making too many failures. I yearn to be silly and talk about things which make no sense but i cant.

Somewhere when we started it was because we laughed together and we were silly together but now, i cannot be silly with people i started with.

People change, life flows but i feel people only change when they want to or when they are made to . i don’t recognize myself anymore this melancholy surrounds me almost all the time.

I lost myself on the way up and i don’t like myself anymore.

I used to laugh so much take things lightly , now i frown when things are made light of. I believed in our vision and now i feel i will quit any day. I don’t want to run away. I want to be that person with conviction and life, i used to be but things change, people change and i have changed.

No doubt people say behind successful people there are other people. That is the profound truth of doing something great. you need great people to be with you and here I am all alone with my start up.