Einstein thought all his life about the nature of time. Therefore he came up with the relativity insight that was a huge step for humanity. Dell thought about how to make better, cheaper computers and he created a 50 billion dollar MNC.
What have I thought about all my life? I have thought about the next fun thing to do. The problem that I have worked on all my life is ‘having fun living’.
I thought it would be fun to study in Mysore and I thought it was fun studying Engg. I thought it was fun to have a boyfriend and that it would be sad not to ‘get him’.
I thought it was fun to teach and fun to act in movies, that it was fun to cook and clean and to spend time with my husband.
I thought it would be fun to be a mom and that it was fun raising my son. I thought it would be fun to do Master’s degree…..
…..it wasn’t fun do a Master’s degree with a little baby….
I thought it would be fun to work in a corporate… it was fun… but it was tough doing the single working mom thing….
Though it was tough, I think it was more fun than doing the being a service provider in a joint family (ie the daughter-in-law) thing… There is no daughter-in-law in the world that I have met, that I wanted to change places with…. Not even Ash!
I thought it would be fun to be divorced, but it was lonely actually…
It was and is fun to write and to talk to people, to be free and not unduly bothered and to have friends and family.
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All my life I have always done what I thought would be fun and hesitated to do what might not be fun. I was not always right in my predictions of what would or would not be fun., and I have learnt a bit from my mistakes.
Fun is what I am about, what Nanna is about, what Kanna is about, what my niece is about and what ’he’ was about. .. Uncle was right.. I have not achieved as high a designation as some of my peers .. but I have had the most fun.. or at least I have tried my best.
No day of my life has been like any other.. I am Aesop’s grasshopper..
Perhaps the greatest fun of all is Self-Determination: Doing what you want, when you want. (Indians would call that Manmani – it is not a compliment!). Perhaps this is why, people think that I have had more fun than anyone else!
Tuesday September 19, 2006 – 01:08pm (PST)
