Brow woe !

Disclaimer – It’s a very girly post !! Guys – read at your own risk.

During Engineering years , I found every other girl surrounding me getting their eyebrows done. I would not really comprehend as to why would it be so necessary for somebody who has about 40 courses , 20 or so practical exams and god knows how many submissions and vivas to worry about. But no , in spite of of all these , they would really get bothered by that one hair out of sync with the rest of the brow line and spend hours in front of the mirror plucking it. Ofcourse it would not bother me since I had my nose and head dug deep into my record books.

Man – such a waste of time and money and why ? For all the pain !!

Honestly , my Dad was strangely against it. He would reason it saying that it gives your face an artificial look.

Anyway .. years ..and mind you many of them passed by. And here I was still in a pickle – to do or not to do. For my wedding , inspite of the beautician’s fervent requests and orders , I dint succumb to it. And “ said I-do” without doing the eyebrows.

So , are we still discussing it ? Unfortunately yes. Now that I have a job (finally my studies are over) , I kind of had a lot of time at hand and ofcourse with the car one day I thought of accompanying my friend to the beauty parlor here (Indian). And with a lot of hesitation finally got my eyebrows done.

Was it painful ?- Yes. Bearable ? – Yes. Worth it ? Donno. Coz I do not look miraculously beautiful or different – any other person might not even notice it.

Well so my dear readers – if one of you is in the same dilemma – then my suggestion would be –

If you want to get them done , just go ahead and do it – its not that big a deal (no – not life changing at all) and for those of you who do not want to get them done – well then don’t as its really not that big a deal :) 

P.S : By the way , this is 50 th post on the "Big Picture" !! Yayyy !!

Hi Me , its Me !!

Growing up with two sisters of more or less my age and a bunch of cousins , and then a lovely set of friends , I was never really alone even for a moment.  Meaning , be it a moment of fear / panic or excitement , or that cup of tea , be it travelling , studying , watching TV I was always with people around me.  Be it exams or birthdays , submissions or festivals , breakfast or dinner. Either with somebody actually or if not then atleast  over phone. It was only after I came to the US , that I came across those days when once in a while I got a lot of opportunities of solitude – or just being with self so to say.  But given the fact that I shared my room / apartment with 7 or 4 other girls , even that occurrence must have been rather rare.

Well , my point is until now , I never knew how it was to spend the time all by yourself. But now , after moving to Irvine , I am  experiencing that quite often infact most of the times.  I wonder when we are with someone , we always tend to entertain people around us , have some POV over something or the other. Now that I am left woth  a lot of time with self , I have realized , I do am a different person with people being around – not that I pretend to be good always –and you all know that J since most of the times I am not..  but I am for sure a different flavor.  And honestly , even though at times when always around people , you crave for that moment of solitude for whatever it is , its actually  good only until you get it.

Meaning how would you talk to yourself the entire day ? Or how would you tell a joke to you ? Or how would you fight with you ? I know there are hundreds of other things that you can do – read / write / watch / paint / sing / cook / exercise etc…. but I guess nothing beats talking your heart out.

The reason that I am finding it rather difficult could be since I am so used to sharing my room / staying with a bunch of girls that I have kind of become addicted to the long – absolute non-sense girls talk. :P

Anyway , for all of you who had a mind of their own from a very early stage in life would not really understand what I am trying to say here. So , well this past couple of months were spent with most of time with ofcourse  me – learning to do a lot of things alone.  From driving , to having lunch in the office, grocery shopping , exercise , cooking everything by myself – I have learnt to keep myself engaged enough that I am not left with much time to have this whole realization of living alone anymore.

After a lot of effort  when I thought I can be alone and njoy my own company one beautiful morning I opened the patio drapes for fresh air while having the hot tea is when I saw a pristine yellow rose burgeoning slowly – in my very own patio. I dint know it existed until then. And all this while I was thinking I was alone. Coming to think of it , there is  always life in everything around you , you just have to have enough awareness to acknowledge their existence and  be patient enough for it to bloom :) .. 

Here are the pictures for you :) 

Edited to add : I have a roomie now - and things are back to normal :)