About Me ( Life Sketch)

I am from India but lived in Saudi Arabia for 20 yrs, presently I am in Dubai with my two sons for their education , husband still with old job in Saudi Arabia. I have 11 years teaching experience(hindi) in high school of Saudi Arabia (Riyadh) and 18 months in DPS Dubai. Now got time to learn some new things. I am doing counseling course and learning sweet language Persian.

As a teacher it was extremely rewarding and challenging. Teachers wear many hats. They are communicators, disciplinarians, conveyors of information, evaluators, classroom managers, counselors, members of many teams and groups, decision-makers, role-models, and surrogate parents. The forty seven years that I had lived – yes lived and not just existed –with life have been a period of continual process of learning.

1986 I came to Saudi Arabia with my 5 months old son to join my husband who is civil engineer and working for construction company. In 1990 we blessed with second son. Living in Saudi Arabia is difficult for so many families but thank god and thanks to life for giving me this wonderful weapon of dignified indifference to fight down all that is unpalatable to me. I learned to ignore things that are irritating or to take them calmly; I can not get rid of them.

I have fallen upon the thorns of life and bled when I came to know about my son’s illness that he is JRA (Juvenile rhomboid arthritis) patient. He just entered in his teens and he got this pain….13yrs old boy living with pain …it was just like full-blooded experience of darkness. The initial reaction was one of unsavory realization that between idealism and reality there is a yawning gap. Life is not all jam, sugar and candy. But when life hurts it teaches also.

“When dark clouds of despair begin to gather on the horizon of life, when hope recedes and when even the will within you begins to crumble, hold yourself together; reinforce your resolve never to give up. Don’t lose the strength of conviction. Recover your will to live. When you have the will, there are always chances that you will weather the storm. It may seem difficult. It is. But the effort is worth it. Remember, life in spite of its thorns and thistles is lovely. Even when it is a wilderness, it is a lovely wilderness.” The simplicity, the sweetness and the note of optimism reflected in this little dialogue from George Borrow’s “Lavengro” have not only been a source of solace but have also sounded a message of hope and life to me.

Though it is real hard task but we learnt the blessed art of forgetting bitter things. This has helped us to tide over the waves of depression that often serge within us and drown much of our happiness. This and much more has life taught me and I am confident it has yet to teach me a lot more as I have yet to learn a lot about the difficult but fascinating art of living.