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I always wanted to live a large life,. Have it all. Work, play, family, friends, holidays, fame and fortune, everything.
At 50 when I take stock, I feel I did fairly ok.
I left home in a small city at 17, much against my mother's wishes, to study in Bombay. By then I had learnt cooking, knitting, embroidery, painting and candle making. I was groomed to be the wife of an IAS officer or an NRI. But I wanted to study. I used to tell my dad that "I want to be a big executive in a big company."
I rejected all the matches that were sent my way and managed to finish an MBA. Along the way I fell in love and married a Christian boy. Inter - religion marriage!! It had all the drama that can be expected.
I worked for a few years in a couple of companies and then went on to start my own business. I worked like a dog and did make a success of it. Had two girls in the course of all the other frenzy. In fact, for both my deliveries, I was rushed from the office to the hospital.
I had this fetish that because I am a working mum, my kids should not suffer. So I plunged headlong in their life. I was the class mum for one girl's class, the field trip in-charge of the other girl's class. I volunteered for bake sale and craft fairs.
I also wanted to be the "corporate wife" to my husband and went for parties and trips and dinner dressed to the nines and made all the right noises.
In the middle of life, my father was diagnosed with cancer and for a year I did nurse and hospital duty till he, sadly, gave up the fight. Then I held my mother's hand.
I was a business woman and a mum and a wife and a daughter and a daughter-in-law and a friend and a party girl.
At 50 I shut my business. Now I teach 4 days a week at an NGO. I teach Maths and Science to Std IX and Std X kids. It is tuition class that is run to help kids with studies after school and I love every minute of it. I have picked up my brushes again and the walls of many a friends boast of my artwork. I joined computer classes and learnt Photoshop, Corel draw and Dreamweaver.
I now want to start a quiz and trivia website.
I self taught myself equities trading and now have a most profitable portfolio.
All in all, I did do it ALL.
I always wanted to live a large life,. Have it all. Work, play, family, friends, holidays, fame and fortune, everything.
At 50 when I take stock, I feel I did fairly ok.
I left home in a small city at 17, much against my mother's wishes, to study in Bombay. By then I had learnt cooking, knitting, embroidery, painting and candle making. I was groomed to be the wife of an IAS officer or an NRI. But I wanted to study. I used to tell my dad that "I want to be a big executive in a big company."
I rejected all the matches that were sent my way and managed to finish an MBA. Along the way I fell in love and married a Christian boy. Inter - religion marriage!! It had all the drama that can be expected.
I worked for a few years in a couple of companies and then went on to start my own business. I worked like a dog and did make a success of it. Had two girls in the course of all the other frenzy. In fact, for both my deliveries, I was rushed from the office to the hospital.
I had this fetish that because I am a working mum, my kids should not suffer. So I plunged headlong in their life. I was the class mum for one girl's class, the field trip in-charge of the other girl's class. I volunteered for bake sale and craft fairs.
I also wanted to be the "corporate wife" to my husband and went for parties and trips and dinner dressed to the nines and made all the right noises.
In the middle of life, my father was diagnosed with cancer and for a year I did nurse and hospital duty till he, sadly, gave up the fight. Then I held my mother's hand.
I was a business woman and a mum and a wife and a daughter and a daughter-in-law and a friend and a party girl.
At 50 I shut my business. Now I teach 4 days a week at an NGO. I teach Maths and Science to Std IX and Std X kids. It is tuition class that is run to help kids with studies after school and I love every minute of it. I have picked up my brushes again and the walls of many a friends boast of my artwork. I joined computer classes and learnt Photoshop, Corel draw and Dreamweaver.
I now want to start a quiz and trivia website.
I self taught myself equities trading and now have a most profitable portfolio.
All in all, I did do it ALL.
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