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Back with a new beginning

Yes, I am back! Don’t ask me where I was or what I was doing the entire July. No, don’t even start thinking of asking me. Because, though I amΒ familiar with Murphy’s law and his infamous life tricks, what I didn’t realize was that he has a patented right to rule over your life when you are planning something big. Yes, I finally shifted to my own place and kinda slowly winding down like that toy car which is on the last turn of the key. I had wound up myself pretty much to the breaking point before I started this entire shifting houses thing and that and only that helped me last this long. Only that helped me face the pretty things that Murphy dropped along my way.

1. You can be a perfectionist planning everything to the last detail. You can write down literally everything to the minute thatΒ you are going to do. You can be the God of check-lists. Still you will be left with a hoard of stuff to do, glaring at your face.

2. When you are shifting houses, especially to a new place which has to be set up from the scratch, you better start the de-cluttering process months before. Otherwise, you will be neck-deep in the junk vs usable filtering process and at the same time running around to set up the new place.

3. Once you move in to your new place, don’t expect things to settle down. Everyday some or the other thing will come up to greet you in the morning and to make the day a lousy one.

4. The best of all learning, moving into a new house of your own only means more work. The cleaning, dusting, arranging, rearranging will just eat your time up. There will be nothing else.

5. And hence anything that can go wrong will go wrong. In all aspects of life.

Despite all this, this entire moving to a new house has been a huge learning experience for me. The retrospective view that I got during this experience was indeed an eye opening one. I learnt to differentiate between people who genuinely help and those who just give sound advice. I learnt that being posted to Hyderabad for my first job was not as bad after all. The Telugu I learnt there has helped in ways I never thought it would. My broken Hindi was repaired to some extent, thanks to my carpenter who bore all my lingual mistakes and still understood what I was trying to tell him.

Amidst all the chaos, we finally moved into our new place and set it up. I know that this feeling of achievement will soon be replaced by one of a long sigh that signals exasperation. But I also know this signals another milestone in our life, a new life, a new beginning… Here’s to a new place and a new start. Cheers!

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Until later πŸ™‚

P.S: My reader is overflowing with unread posts, give me sometime to be back in action, will ya? πŸ™‚

16 Comments

  1. Shailaja

    All the best to the new beginnings! May you soar and be happy after all the hurdles are knocked down.

    • Bogglehead

      Thanks Shailaja πŸ™‚

  2. CookieCrumbsInc.

    I WANT TO SEE PICTURES!! SHOW, SHOW!!

    • Bogglehead

      Sure dear, in the chaos that followed the moving and coping up with work, I forgot to click pics. Let me set things right and send you pics πŸ™‚ Btw, you are welcome to drop by anytime πŸ™‚

      • CookieCrumbsInc.

        Where you put up?

        • Bogglehead

          Mahadevapura and you?

          • CookieCrumbsInc.

            Koramangala :/ WHY IS BANGALORE SO LARGE :'(

          • Bogglehead

            Uff! πŸ™

  3. Nisha

    Congratulations on the new move. Yes, the best is yet to come!

  4. ak β„’

    Congratulations on the new house. Hope to see more posts. πŸ™‚

    Wait, you are saying you shifted to the new house and didn’t invite me for the house warming ? #pointDulyNoted. πŸ™

    • Bogglehead

      Thanks AK, And house warming was a small affair, just family.

  5. Aathira

    Congrats, my dear K! I know the confusion and chaos that always follows shifting houses only too well. The real thrill is now in making it a home for you πŸ™‚ I shall look forward to pics too. Especially the new bookshelf πŸ™‚

    • Bogglehead

      Sure Aathira, Yup, setting up the house to make a home is what’s keeping me going but sometimes I do feel like, Will this never end?!!? It’s all part of the game, I guess. Bookshelf, that reminds me, I need to transport all my books from my parents’ place to here. There’s a mini-library there!!

  6. Sid

    Here’s to new beginnings πŸ™‚

    • Bogglehead

      Cheers to that πŸ™‚

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