The Unruled Notebook

It was a beautiful day. “When a day starts like this, it is all uphill from here” said Zach Galifianakis in Due Date and I couldn't agree more! (Sorry Rob. Downey Jr.) This quarter of 2014 has been amazing and all social for me. I got into two team challenges, got to organize a dinner of huge scale at work and now I am part of this wonderful team doing a CSR activity  at a school (Ignore the jargon, I hate this term myself). I like calling it Happy Hours :) We went to a school this Tuesday. The journey was unfathomably exhausting because before we could reach the school as planned, at 10 AM, we had to go through a car breakdown, some last minute surprises, some last minute shocks, mobile switch off's and all this while  scorching sunny boy was shining right down at us . I made it sound simple, right? :)   Well, it wasn't; but every single minute we spent in the school with the vibrant and talented children made it worthwhile. No...

  On a dreamy morning, I was thinking why we still use plastic enormously in our everyday lives. An idea bubble burst and disturbed my reverie. It said “Paint it RED, paint every plastic RED, RED means danger, RED could save us from a plastic epidemic” I turned around and thought aloud “Is it a stupid idea?” “No idea is stupid”, replied the husband.   Picture sourced from Google I picked up the crushed red plastic wrapper and tucked it in my bag as I slowly saw her turn. She looked at me as if I were a demon.   She was licking her lollipop non-stop. I went closer to her and gently took the lollipop from her hands. She tried to grab it back but I took it further away from her. I then picked up the plastic from my bag and put it in the ground in front of her. I saw her staring at the plastic and then back at me. After a minute of strange silence, she picked the plastic up and ran away to her mother. I followed her and gave the lollipop to her mom and told he...