LIFE AS IT IS

Any man who ever loved me, loved me unconditionally.

Being a mother changes so many things in a girl's life, so please don't "judge" a mother for what she chooses to do - you have not been into her shoes.

When you fall in love, you just fall in love - you do not want to know if you are going to fall on rocks or a bed of grass.

One must never forget the price one's forefathers paid so he or she can grow up in a free land. Long may our flag wave!

Hopefully, this winter weather will come to an end sooner than I think.

Age is a number and therefore, we need to treat it like a number - the same way we treat our house number, apartment number, phone number or passport number (something which most of us never remember)!

Sometimes you are happy for no reason - you are just happy!

Please don't judge me, and I will not judge you.

Have you ever traveled back in time? From sitting at the dining table over breakfast, have you ever felt your surroundings suddenly beginning to shift? Have you ever experienced that you are no more in the present? I might have sounded a bit poetic but we all, from time to time, hold the hand of nostalgia and travel back in time. The older I am getting, the more I am missing the days I left behind. Not that I want to change the life I have had so far, but I do sometimes miss the carefree childhood days when the main worry was to be able to watch the afternoon cartoon on BTV, or finish homework  as quickly as possible on Wednesday nights to be able to watch MacGyver. In winter, I would just wait for the afternoon time so I could rush downstairs and play badminton. I looked forward to going to school on weekdays 'cause school meant friends and fun. As we grow up, our tender shoulders are hardened by worldly duties. Our hearts are hardened too, so things that made us cry at on...

I cannot digest the idea of buying a concert ticket for Tk. 50,000 or Tk. 1 lakh. Some expenses do not make sense to me. No, it is not about affordability alone. I can afford a Louis Vuitton purse but I have not been able to make myself purchase one because that would be a senseless expense. In a country where people do not have food to eat and clothes to wear, spending $1,000 or more for a concert ticket makes no sense to me.

We live in an age where we have too many unhappy people. The world is much more technologically advanced, communication is easier and faster than it  ever was, many of the countries that were once poor are doing better economically, millions of people are doing better professionally and financially than their earlier generations, and yet we have so many unhappy people around. We are still looking for the answer to that one question: what really makes a person happy? It's probably true that happiness is a relative term.

A wool carpet will shed like there is no tomorrow! Think twice before making an investment in a wool carpet.

Some people remember a favor forever, and others forget it in the blink of an eye.

If you see too many coincidences then it's probably safe to say that they are not coincidences. 

Happiness is helping a friend in his pursuit.

When people misunderstand someone/something, they usually understand sooner or later that they misunderstood.

Sometimes I want to go back to my past and slap myself in the face.

There is a difference between "you can" and "you think you can."