The Non-Facebook Post #45

It was too good to be true, just too good!

"Oh serendipitous, serendipitous day! When you go get your driving license renewed and, by happy accident, are also well dressed enough to not have a deer-caught-in-headlights headshot clicked for your new license!"
February 4, 2015. 11:51 am.

Yeah! Which is why Fate cruelly conspires with Bureaucracy to turn events around so that you're in a position of having to redo all your paperwork for the license, and get another headshot clicked. And lo and behold! Now, the picture of you that's to be printed on your new (yet again) license is how it should be - the ritualistic, ugly 'deer caught in headlights' sorta image. 

Well anyway, here's hoping four times is a charm and I don't have to go through the whole rigmarole again, for something as simple as being able to renew my driving license. You, Bureaucracy, I'm talking to you!

The Non-Facebook Post #44

"I was wondering if I could get her signature here to show I stopped by to deliver but he wasn't here?"

"Her?!"

"She's not mine! She's a stray!"

All in a day's work!

The Non-Facebook Post #43

"Learning has to include an amount of failure, because failure is instructional..."

Diana Laufenberg, TED Talk "How to Learn? From Mistakes"

The Non-Facebook Post #42

I need a standing desk!
I want a standing desk at my workplace!

The Non-Facebook Post #41

It's the sort of start to your day when you wake up, quite dreamily, and plunge into daydreaming right away. Daydreaming so intense, that you are barely conscious of the ticking time that's silently exhorting you to be ready for yet another day at the workplace. But the daydreams, as you go through the motions of brushing your teeth, showering, all of that - well, there they are showing you the path to your life's dreams, once again.

'Accha sochne se accha hota hai.' You attract the kind of energy you radiate.

Miraculously though, your daydreaming doesn't interfere with the pace of you readying yourself for the day. In fact, it speeds up the process. There you are, lost in moments cooked up by your abstractions that are pure joy and pure happiness because that's how you're envisioning your future. And you have a song on your lips too as you let the hot shower and your warm reveries relax your slightly strained mind and body because you plodded on through the yesterday - you decided to move forward, even if it was just inching ahead. The tortoise-walk onwards, gathering speed to become a hectic busyness by the end of the day that unravels into a heavy, dreamy sleep and which slowly blossoms into a musing-filled morning - you can say it's a good life. 

The Non-Facebook Post #40

I love this life advice! (Thanks to my Mom for sharing that HuffPost article with me.)

And this - "Be kind. Always and no matter what."

The Non-Facebook Post #39

Oh, come on! It's snowing!
Well, this was yesterday. It was a gloomy weather forecast showing snow on the radar. But you know how it is sometimes when you don't want to believe something even in the face of facts and evidence? So, I drive in to the Honda showroom to get my car serviced in a cold, cloudy and windy atmosphere. I spend about two and a half hours dozing out my wait with Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse's hefty tome in my hand, my finger bookmarking the page I was reading where I gave in to the waves of sleep washing over me. Mercifully, I managed to wake up before the Service Agent walked in to tell me that the car was finally serviced. I walk out from the waiting lounge to his desk area to clear my dues only to get a glimpse of a white world from the large automatic glass door that lets cars into the service center. That's when I exclaimed, in amused exasperation. The Service Agent had this to add, "yeah Indiana weather is great that way in setting up the party mood!" And sprinkling salt on a fresh wound he responds to my statement of having fallen asleep instead of reading, "you didn't go around the back of the waiting lounge and check out the showroom? It's really cool. There're free cookies."
Oh, come on! Free cookies that I miss!

(This is today's delightful temperature.)