Certain practices in life stay with you for a long long time. It would have started rather innocently, but then they become such a custom that you wont even realize doing it.
A week or so before i got married, my wise uncle told me this. During the time you are a newly-wed,you will be expected to enter everywhere you go with your right foot, so don't wait till the D-day. Start making it a habit from now onward. Since random aunties would be waiting to see what you did wrongly as a bride, i decided to heed to his advice and started using my right foot to enter anywhere starting from shopping trips to visiting old relatives to seek their blessing. Guess during the initial days of my married life i would have done this one thing rightly because i never caught any aunties whispering in between bites of meat-rolls, that i did the unthinkable act of using my left foot to enter the grooms house..
Fast forward 6 years. I was recently running to catch a train that was coming on the farthest platform and i needed to run across the over bridge to catch it. I then realized that i was using my right foot to start climbing the stairs and even used the right foot to board the train .. My uncle would be so proud of me :)
I recently heard him giving this advise to my littlest sister ,who got married (Be still my soul).. I should ask her how it has impacted her.
I always count the stairs as i am climbing.. Its something that comes automatically to me .. :) Sometimes when i am very bored, i even count the steps i am taking while walking. I count the number of compartments of a train that passes me too :D
In 2006, my cousin from Canada visited us and she had a jumbo size handbag.. I was quiet surprised at the size and my curiosity took the better of me and i asked her what she carries in it. She showed me the contents. If the world comes to a catastrophe and you are stranded with her in a lonely place at that time, you can rejoice!!! The bag had enough contents to take you through an entire week!!!! But was i inspired or not.. From that day onward i cant use a small sized handbag.. Handbags should be spacious and should see me through a day or two :P So you can mostly catch me with a shoulder-suitcase most of the time.
**I cant come with any more die-hard habits.. But then i wanted to get this blog back up and running :)
A week or so before i got married, my wise uncle told me this. During the time you are a newly-wed,you will be expected to enter everywhere you go with your right foot, so don't wait till the D-day. Start making it a habit from now onward. Since random aunties would be waiting to see what you did wrongly as a bride, i decided to heed to his advice and started using my right foot to enter anywhere starting from shopping trips to visiting old relatives to seek their blessing. Guess during the initial days of my married life i would have done this one thing rightly because i never caught any aunties whispering in between bites of meat-rolls, that i did the unthinkable act of using my left foot to enter the grooms house..
Fast forward 6 years. I was recently running to catch a train that was coming on the farthest platform and i needed to run across the over bridge to catch it. I then realized that i was using my right foot to start climbing the stairs and even used the right foot to board the train .. My uncle would be so proud of me :)
I recently heard him giving this advise to my littlest sister ,who got married (Be still my soul).. I should ask her how it has impacted her.
I always count the stairs as i am climbing.. Its something that comes automatically to me .. :) Sometimes when i am very bored, i even count the steps i am taking while walking. I count the number of compartments of a train that passes me too :D
In 2006, my cousin from Canada visited us and she had a jumbo size handbag.. I was quiet surprised at the size and my curiosity took the better of me and i asked her what she carries in it. She showed me the contents. If the world comes to a catastrophe and you are stranded with her in a lonely place at that time, you can rejoice!!! The bag had enough contents to take you through an entire week!!!! But was i inspired or not.. From that day onward i cant use a small sized handbag.. Handbags should be spacious and should see me through a day or two :P So you can mostly catch me with a shoulder-suitcase most of the time.
**I cant come with any more die-hard habits.. But then i wanted to get this blog back up and running :)
