tales of Suchita

Because I am also mainstream and if the numbers in Bombay are any indication, all has gone to shit in any case. Might as well clock down the lessons learnt before aliens decide they have had enough of our incompetence, hatred and violence and decide that colonizing humans is the only viable option to save earth and her species.

Amul butter and dad

Have you noticed when things are starting to get into a pinch, the first thing that goes out of stock is Amul butter? Well, something like that happened during peak lockdown period and let’s just say, my dad was having none of it. He ordered 4 packs of said butter so we wouldn’t run out of it…at all. Aliens may find a brick rotting in our fridge when they takeover Bombay!

Exercise and I

Exercise and I have never seen eye to eye. The best way to describe our relationship is perhaps: chattis ka ankda. I have been trying to set an exercise routine for the better part a decade but nothing seemed to work. Till the lockdown when I really started to freak out because now establishing an exercise routine became necessary if I didn’t want to end up like one of those memes:

It wasn’t until I was painstakingly curating my exercise playlist on YouTube that I came across a dialogue that revolutionized my thinking. The dialogue was simple: all you gotta do is show up and fitness happens naturally.

Bartan Dhona

When the activity that would come in my dreams and give me nightmares turned into a meditation of sorts I don’t really know. But I find it an excellent time to think about what I want to write.

Mummiyo ka kaam kabhi khatam nahin hota

One of the most obnoxious things I have heard, perhaps you have too if you’re an Indian kid, is: betta jab ma banoge tab I’ll ask.

But I read something quite fantastic in one of the emailers I subscribe to which said: Men should share the cognitive burden of running a household.

Basically, my mother was right (yes, shivers) and I was wrong (ugh). They are constantly running, thinking or planning. And no matter how many times you tell her to sit down or calm down, she will just…not?! Like I just told her to breathe and she will start start doing kapal bhaati while also making a list…?

Fanfiction

After I lost Grey’s Anatomy as my guilty pleasure, I had to find a new one and lo and behold welcome to ao3 which has been a boon to this human who is only looking for something to take her mind off the drama surrounding her.

PS: In case you were looking for profound lessons, sorry to disappoint. Since the lockdown began, I have been on survival mode so all lessons have gone way over my head or have been written down in an Evernote to be perused at a later date. I have been keeping my head down, working, and just trying not to cry every time I open Twitter for my daily dose of ‘today on what we are outraging against.’

As they would say in a fanfic

Fin.