Drape that Saree

RESET! RESTART! REWORK! WIN IT!! 

Yet another fussy morning, where I am caught in the vicious circle right in the morning, woke up late!! No light!! Couldn’t shower because “andhere mein to darr lagta hai” and the series followed by other drastic events and above all the show stopper for the day was this beautiful blue and charcoal Grey Silk Cotton Solid Saree with a Zari border!! Which isn’t ready to be draped around at all!! Just because it is new it has got all the rights to annoy!!

YES!! This long description was of utmost significance because I am the kind of person when I get frustrated, I write a 200-word letter and 5 pages and remember the tiniest detail of all the events right from the 90s to 2019 and probably I might include future projections as well!!

Saree carries an air of attitude, but what if it gives you back one?? Draping saree this morning was exactly like having it!! For 23 minutes to be precise, after creasing it out at 20 different places from tucking it from sides to managing front pleats to deciding to keep a falling pallu or to give it a nice formal pleated look, it was all a chaos. Something was not right!! Either it was me or definitely, the saree has to take all the blame!!

It was after a few minutes of hassle and a constant frustration that I realized, at times how difficult it becomes to clear out an unnecessary clutter around us and we constantly try to mend the clutter falling in only to invite more impatience and intense frustration. No matter how hard I tried, this saree wasn’t willing to give up at all.

Clearly, my efforts weren’t paying me enough, thought of giving up!! Something we all are taught not to do!! To give up is the failures trait!! Or to give up is the idea of the loser!! But there are times when to give up is the only solution!! If at all you know for what you’re giving up. I gave up on the efforts for a piece of mind, for a fresh start and a better ending, right at that moment an idea struck

And there struck a super solution to all the worldly problems if something takes more than 15 minutes to sort, why to waste more?? It definitely needs the much functional “ONE MINUTE BREAK” and the willingness to start “ALL OVER AGAIN”.

After the much needed one-minute break, saree was un-draped and draped all over again!! VOILA!! And the saree was back to its best in no time!! This isn’t magic, nor this is some trick!! When we are frustrated and we try figuring out solutions, all our brain does is to revolve around the mess!!

Here we come up with another trick “RESET & REWORK”

Many a time, we understand the need to RESET and RESTART, yet somehow, we fail at accepting and implementing the fact that it is NEEDED. We have the ability to recover and reset everything that has distorted, the only thing required is the willingness to accept that it needs our brain also requires moments of RESET and RESTART.

Whatever, wherever, however, stuck we might be, try that ONE MINUTE BREAK, sip a glass of cold water, look outside the window, and RESET and RESTART all over again. It surely has helped me many times, must help you as well.