Now and Then - Stay Connected

I have been working for the last 3.5 years now. I am an adult. I drive, I go out with friends for drinks. I am a professional when it comes to my work. I know what I want and work towards achieving my goals. I have dreams and aspirations. I am a person who thinks logically and rationally, or so I'd like to believe. However, I wasn't always like this. A lot has changed about me since I was a child. So how was I any different from what I am now?

In every woman there is a little girl that she leaves behind as she grows up. I am no different from any one of them. Just like any other girl, I too had my dreams and fallacies. I was carefree, a feeling that I haven't experienced in a long time now. As I was growing up, there was this movie that played an important role in my adolescent years - Now and Then. It's about four twelve year old girls and a summer when they get involved in investigating a local mystery. Both happy and unfortunate events occur. These four friends make a pact, when they were younger, that if one of them ever needed each other they would be there. Now and Then used to be my favorite movie when I was younger and it still remains one of my favorites. This movie is absolutely wonderful, even now I could watch the movie all over again. It puts me in such a great mood. It makes me think that real friends do exist.

I was inspired by this movie in ways more than one. I still remember how I would cycle my way around the whole block from dawn to dusk during my summer vacations. It changed the way I thought and also my outlook towards things. As you are growing up, you tend to pick up a habit or a trait from everything around you. It could be actual people, a sitcom or a movie. All or any of it. It makes you who you are in today's world. I know I am one such person, a combination of many such things. Without them I wouldn't really be the person that I am today. And it's a good feeling when you relate to those things after all this time. 'Now and Then' reminds me of the times back THEN and then I see the NOW which is in front of me.

What's yours?

What do you really care about? What are the things in your life that make it rich and fill your days? What are the things that you consider yourself an expert on? Are you into gardening, photography, cooking, traveling, cars, bikes, jewelry and books? What is it that you enjoy doing? What is your passion?


Passion is the emotion of feeling very strongly about a subject or person, usually referring to feelings of intense desire and attraction.

What is it that I am passionate about? I don’t really know since there are more than just one thing that interest me. I enjoy traveling and meeting new people. I like exploring new places and this mixed with photography. When you are able to capture all those moments which with every passing minute keep becoming a thing of the past. It’s like only if I could hold that moment right there, for as long as I wished to. A camera allows me to do just that. And so when I think of photographs, every photograph reminds me of how a story or an incident is connected with each one of them. They become a part of our memories, which remind us of all the good times.

Ever think that you just want to let go of everything. Do you ever feel that you want forget everything that is worrying you and that’s on your mind? Think of something like dancing. Well that’s something I used to be passionate about. It allowed me to let loose, to forget everything and everyone. It was about me and only about me. It would let me focus on myself. It made me feel good and made me feel like I was on top of the world.

People who are passionate about bikes might probably look at this way. The open road, the wind blowing into your face as you cruise through the city life. The engine which roars like a lion and the feeling that you experience when you traveling at a high speed.

It's simply out of this world!