Prachi Patel

10   mo nths , 21 days , 6 hours and 3 minutes . Yes after all these days days , the changing seasons and skies  ,  still skipping the songs that I  used to listen when I first met you .  Still carrying it all in my poor little heart  . oh very well I must say !  Still freezing in the shower thinking - still avoiding those novels  that reminds me of you.still working on  changing my playlist so it doest describe you anymore  !   My fingers still turn numb , when I pen down anything that even in  minor sense relates to you . I guess ,It was all you .Or all of you in me ?  After all these days , still comparing the difference you made  to my days then to what life from here  looks to me  now - all because of you  ,  Yes , still , chocking when it suddenly reminds me of how abruptly life take turns ,  Pretty weird Yh ? But still , after all these days , I still get teary eyed when my friends...

To my incredible, inspiring, beautiful, unique and precious kid ,   There are going to be days that hurt and hollow you out. Those days are the kind you sit staring at a computer, at the wall or out of a window, just looking, but not seeing anything. You can't think, you can only feel your chest expand and rise to inhale and then purse your lips to exhale slowly. Each breath feels no better than the last, but you know, somewhere deep within  yourself that you have to just keep on doing it. There are going to be nights when you lie on your back and tears slip out the sides of your eyes without permission. They stream, cold and chilling on your neck, and you lay frozen. The sadness has a weight words can't carry. The mind can't quite decipher how much loss you feel, how broken and tired your heart is. Below the surface, deep behind the horizontal heart that keeps beating and bleeding out, there is a spark that flickers. It is so faint you can't even acknowledge it, but fu...

“Honsla rakh doli na, Din aunga bas boli na “ - Waheguru . These are the words that has  kept me going thru on worst of my days , days where I felt the emotions would engulf me , days where I wanted to run somewhere, somehow leaving everything behind , days When I covered my mouth on a public transit to mask a breakdown because my tears couldn’t wait until I reached my bed and found a pillow to hide my pain with . The days when I choose to sit and stare at the sky all the way till dawn - questioning and hoping someone from up and above this world will hear and answer my plea , the days when I skipped morning lectures because with a chest so heavy it was difficult to put on a show and drag myself to a class , The days when I wished I had  the power to go back in time just to undo some events , unfeeling was my dream , days when I took more then 45 minutes standing under the shower - cold and numb - trying to figure out where it all went wrong , who is at blame ? ...

So listen to me carefully beta , said dad while we sat on the mini terrace of my house watching cars pass by on a  hot summer afternoon in to get  some  air over some chilled sugarcane juice "Apparently on a regular Sunday afternoon , when  the upper east siders  of Southern California were are all drenched in sociality mostly over poker games and high profile meet ups in a fine dining restaurant   restaurant , along with them was also a father daughter duo having some family time over food , when the waiter showed up with the bill the daughter left him a heafty tip of all most $500 dollars while the gentleman also  being from a well off man chose to keep it as low as $5 , with many questions in her eyes the daughter kept staring at her father and the man spoke " You young lady are born to the world's richest man but I was born to a woodcutter , can you guess the legend  ?The words were from Mr Bill gates himself ! " continued my dad who was on a...

Fear is powerfully  consuming . it consumes your thoughts ,your judgements , your confidence , it shakes foundations , ruins ideas and innovations  . It steals words from the tip of your tongue and makes you go numb and freeze like a tray of ice deep freezed in the frozen section of a refrigerator . Everybody in their lives have once faced such engulfing fear that  made it all  look blank . Long back ago in the year 2009 , on a cold yet hysterically calm night of December 23rd at about 7:23 pm there was a kid who took her first steps towards a huge dark stage from the green room on the count of 3...2....1...Go..,that night the audience consisted of  about 900 parents and students gathered up in the two storey multi purpose  grand auditorium cheering for their respective  kids performing , among them all in the very near front rows was a couple in their 30's both a mother and a father ready with a camera and a handy-cam respectively desperately waiting ...

    Advertising -  The world that Proliferates On Persuasion . I grew up studying in a private school in my area which had appointed  a 60 year old principle Dr Salma Paleja - a Doctor of Philosophy in Marketing who taught my class  pre- economics and the basics of economics in grade 10 th back in 2016 . During one of her lectures in which the topic of discussion was how advertising influences the choices of the customers , Dr Paleja quoted a strong statement which I still remember clearly after all these years " In the world of advertising it is important to express - express the ideas , innovations , feelings - express it all, as this expression leaves a deep impression on the viewer and they connect - connect immediately though being a lot away from the reality , the expression that leads to impression , has the potential to create customers even from continents away " This thoughts of her still echo in my ears when I sit to think and pen down about the mo...

In accordance with the Ted talk presented by Miss Amy Cuddy 0n "How non verbal gestures impact our own thought processes  "  , each of us would not be able to deny the observed yet not really recognized fact that the non verbal gestures plays a evident role in our  lives  as it does not only impact ones self presentation in the eyes of the of the world , but it also does control how we feel and think about our own self .   This undoubtedly  impacts the way we evaluate  and attract objects , situations  and people "we think " we deserve . Our self evaluation of ourselves as " capable or incapable " , " Worthy or non- worthy " , " smart or not really a bright star ", " deserving or undeserving " , " powerful or powerless "wise or maybe an average thinker " at a higher level decides on what we choose for ourselves in the form of what we call it our " decisions ", which are purely based and biased mostly  ...