Miss you Papa … It's been a year. May Waheguru ji be with you 😇🙏🏼. Memories, until I go …

Memories until I go … 

Barkha Dutt’s FB post dated April 27th 2026 about her father’s passing away during COVID around this time that particular year,  left me feeling heavy. It stirred that familiar question ... 

What is life, and why does it hurt so deeply when someone we love is gone? 

Why do we feel our hearts crushing & how can this heal. 

Then I console myself saying this is for life .. stay with it. I truly resonate with what she said. 

Grief doesn’t really fade with time .. it settles into your life and becomes something you learn to live with. With each passing year, it doesn’t disappear; it simply finds a place within you. 

•  I find comfort in talking to my parents through their pictures. There’s a quiet solace in that. 
• Sometimes, a song from my childhood is enough to bring everything back—memories of GeetMala and Chitrahaar, moments that feel so alive yet so distant. 
• Old ghazals pull me into a space where I sit with those emotions more deeply. I wrap myself in their shawls, holding on to what remains of them. 
• And when I miss hearing them, I listen to their voice memos—just to feel that connection again, even if only for a moment. 

It’s especially painful that I no longer have their gadgets or personal belongings .....things that were dismissed as clutter. What some see as replaceable objects were, for me, pieces of memory, fragments of a life that meant everything. I only wish people understood this better ......that these aren’t just things. They are anchors to love, to preserve a past that still lives within us.

 A little more empathy and sensitivity can go a long way for those of us holding on to these memories.

Papa, Mama, main twannu phirr milangee .. 

                                                     Are you there?

Times are changing, and so are we.

Acceptance is required for what will be.

Surrender to change in a positive way,

For nothing in this world is here to stay.

Times are changing, and so are we.

So much to hear and so much to see.

Every person’s a guru for us to bear,

But believe in yourself—you’re already there.

Else you may stumble and you may fall,

And your existence may fade from all.

Times are changing, and so are we. 

I’ve learned my lessons, becoming me. 

With Love and respect for all I meet,

And gratitude guiding my small feat.

Manifestation is just a modern term,

Always known, what we sow, we earn.

So,  the energy I give will find its way,

Returning to me, come what may.

Vimi Dev 

April 2nd, 2026

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I love this poem ...

"Don't Quit" .

Today I was feeling a bit low and missing my parents who are in India . I wish I was there in the times when I AM supposed to be around them ....

what hurts me the most is that IF God really exists , then why is he not showing me my path ..

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,

When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don't give up though the pace seems slow--
You may succeed with another blow,
Success is failure turned inside out--
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit--
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit....................

Healing strained and broken relationships ...this article helps us in healing any relation that has caused hurt to a parent or a child or a spouse or a friend .......lets believe in "BETTER TOMORROWS YOU CAN"
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1. View your relationship from a new perspective and realize how you can change in order to help the relationship change

2. Discover your strengths and recognize that where you are right now and how you see yourself is the starting point for healing not only your relationship but yourself as well.

3. Learn the importance of those things in your past that have contributed to who you are and to how you see life.

4. Learn how to control emotions that threaten to overtake you when you want to respond more calmly to others.

5. Answer the call to action for healing your relationship by choosing a goal that will help you do what must be done if you want to improve your situation.

6. Discover the gift of peace you give yourself when you are able to let go of what you can no longer do anything about and when you forgive both yourself and the other person.

7. Develop a greater awareness of your true self and the ability to manage the disparate parts of yourself that can get caught in a relationship and so prevent you from seeing the possibility of healing.

8. Learn how to open your heart and to live in the joy of the moment, preventing ego from destroying love

9. Explore a practical approach to discussing family disagreements with an open mind and to moving into the future with confidence in healing relationships inside, and outside, your family.

10.Lastly, lets believe that "When we heal our relationship with our parents, we are healing a deep part of ourselves, and this will enhance all our relationships."