Our New Year in March

Getting your life organized is not an easy task. It begins with the physical and eventually what you seek and must aim for, is something transcendental. That has been my goal and the objective of 2019. Of course, considering how much we've been living out of suitcases the past few months, there has been no opportunity to begin the new year until now.

Life is unbelievably hectic. Our timings have been all over the place. Subsequently, so have motivation, health and food patterns. At twenty, when health and fitness are at its peak, it’s frustrating how much we take our bodies for granted. And then when you are least aware, the mid-thirties creep up on you and before you know it, you’re low on energy, strength drops, fatigue begins to set in (if it hasn’t already rooted itself in your life) and every aspect of your life desperately points to a need for evaluation.

It is with this aim of self-improvement across all quarters that the husband and I entered 2019. It is for this reason, that Marie Kondo found her way into my household and honestly, did make a difference. And it is for this reason that we took the first available weekend of no travel, to register ourselves at the nearest fitness centre.

Our home and bodies have been outsourced to the experts- our trainer, the KonMari method and the help- with the sole intention of being able to focus on the inner self minus the everyday distractions that take up so much mental space. Of course, we still struggle for time. But if there’s one thing that the husband and I agree upon is a shared love of setting targets and having things function on auto-pilot as much as possible. Thank god for that!

The next few weeks are going to be painful. And that is a sign that all’s going as per plan. If a work-out isn’t killing you in its initial days, you’re probably doing something wrong or not putting yourself into it at all.

It’s a blessing though, that amidst all this chaos, the mind has not already succumbed to the stress. Thank god for Sudarshan Kriya and yoga. It has kept the family balanced through it all. And the sanity has helped us practically analyse the deficit corners of our lives and take concrete measures to put our affairs in order.

With my body at the mercy of the fitness experts, my home being held together by the help and an international organization guru (😉), my mind put at ease by the mindful practices we observe and the kids (the 3-year-old and the 30+ year-old) away for a good part of the day, I can honestly say that I am finally beginning to see the pieces of the puzzle fit together.

Motherhood is not easy. It begins the day you find your test results positive. And in this day an age, the challenges faced are multi-fold. It takes a while. And the best way to navigate it is to go with the flow, not overthink and, surrender to the role at hand. Eventually the knots come undone; you learn, figure things out for yourself and most importantly, grow.

I hope 2019 is a year to remember for all things good, positive and cherish-able. A year of growth and balance.

Here’s to the pushups I couldn’t do- I shall look you in the eye at the end of three months.

Happy growing! 2019, you rock already!