Hi, I am Aditi. As an Indian migrant, I was doing what is expected of me – be the dutiful wife, mother. And then my baby girl was born 6 years ago. And I looked at her and wished for her all that I was not. And then the hypocrisy of it hit me. There is a quote, by Joyce Maynard. It says – “Its not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching to see what we do with ours. I can’t tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it myself”.
This blog is all about being a bit braver. Getting out of your comfort zone because all the regular stuff we do – cleaning the house, getting the kids to school, homework, baseball practice, going to work – all that becomes our comfort zone. We are too “busy” to really grow and develop and know why we have been put on this earth. Its also about breaking the boundaries – real or imagined. And they may be as small as trying a new class when earlier I would have questioned the need, value and cost of it. Now I just show up to check it out. Or starting this blog which is really about facing who I am.
I hope you join me and together we break the shackles that we have put on ourselves. The dash project is all about the dash between the two important years – the year we were born and the year we die. We need to make that count.