Ruchi Mahajan

Filled with mixed feelings I brought you home one day, Were you just cute or super naughty I couldn’t really say.   You instantly stole our heart With your adorable little play, and sometimes you turned into a little shark eating and biting everything on the way.     You were the first Golden I owned And my very first furry friend, We two made a great company Sometimes happy, sometimes overwhelmed   Energetic, gorgeous, cuddly & sweet You were growing up too fast, With you around I was always on my toes, My dream to own a pet came true at last   You followed me everywhere Your love was so selfless and pure, Golden in skin and golden at heart Speechless but not emotionless, for sure   You greeted me so excitedly Every time I entered through the door, You showered so much love and joy You certainly had it more.   A dog is a man’s best friend, This saying is just so true   You bring ou...

I had always been in job, a part of the dazzling corporate world. So much so, that my earliest memories of young age all have a workplace in the background. Straight out of the university, I finished my bachelors of law degree along with a B.com (Hons) and earned a Corporate Secretary certification. I was proud, I was the only 'legal' head in my family and had supposedly accomplished my desired education. I was ready to face the world. Little did I know, education is a smaller chunk of the necessary ingredients for the 'success' at workplace, there are so many other factors you get to learn on the way, not only to get to the top but more so to remain relevant (sometimes to merely exist in the competition).  As my fellow legal professionals would agree, a job in the legal field requires strenuous learning, improvement while keeping yourself updated at all times, else you can be thrown out of the rink. The complacent easy going me, was always handful, trying to remain rel...

When I was very young, I firmly believed its okay to keep expectations from others. Specially from the ones who are the closest to you, since you had been there for them too so what's the big deal if they reciprocate.  But the problems begin the moment this expectations monster creeps into your life. Its said that "expectations are premeditated resentments". Because the equilibrium of give and take is rare to achieve, that leads to great many frustrations and disgruntled emotions. I would usually go out of my way to help others and when I didn't see it being turned back to me, it surely didn't go well with me. That was expectations working. It shifts your focus not on the action and the pure bliss you achieve just doing the thing, but on the results and on the reward you think you deserve from the action you performed. I wasn't happy just doing my duty, I wanted something more. Some praise, some appreciation and definitely the credit for doing it. I was unhapp...