Category Archives: hmmm…i’m thinking

Who Let the Virus Out??

Posted by meeta on April 23, 2020 1 comments

Some of us want to blame someone for our locked down situation. Here’s my role in the blame-game.

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To Friend or To Parent

Posted by meeta on April 19, 2020 None comments

I mull over why friending is better than parenting, even though it is not easier.

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The P-word—Pride

Posted by meeta on April 10, 2020 None comments

My case for renaming “pride” to “the p-word”.

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Staying Afloat

Posted by meeta on September 18, 2019 None comments

I went swimming, which felt like I went thinking. This time felt like jotting the experience down.

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The conflict-compassion conflict

Posted by meeta on December 5, 2016 None comments

Plurality always existed as did difference of opinions. But, so did each sect, sub-sect, and sub-sub-sect’s need for individuality. Is it a surprise then, that there has never been a world without conflict? It goes with the theory of evolution …

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Are people phases?

Posted by meeta on October 12, 2015 None comments

Are people, phases of your life? Are kids phases in their parents’ lives? At different ages, different phases? When they fly away, the empty nest phase arrives with a whole new world of opportunities for all parties involved? Are friends …

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Faking Nonchalance

Posted by meeta on July 22, 2015 6 comments

I’ve been having these intense conversations with a few close friends. Coincidentally, almost all of these friends are single. And I guess not so coincidentally, many of these conversations revolved around relationships – both romantic and platonic (but relatively close …

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Love Limited

Posted by meeta on March 23, 2014 1 comments

When I was pregnant for the first time, I read these articles on mother-child bonding – how the first few months of a child are the most defining ones as far as bonding is concerned, etc. My initial instinct was …

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From the Unsaid to the Over-said

Posted by meeta on March 8, 2014 None comments

Is there such a thing as too much communication? I’d like to go all sexist and say, “I think not, but then again, I am a woman.” But seriously, is there such a thing as too much communication? Can you …

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Nothingness

Posted by meeta on June 15, 2011 None comments

How do people deal with it? The vacant mind, the spotless sunshine? It’s beautiful, but it’s still blank. It’s there, the void. And it needs to be dealt with. How do people fill the serene, the vacant, the spotless, the …

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