08/03/2020
'Amritsar to England: ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ ਤੋਂ ਇੰਗਲੈਂਡ'
December 2019, I visited Amritsar, my place of birth after a decade. The hustle bustle of old city was mesmerising yet overwhelming, probably due to my six year gap of visiting India.
Amritsar to England has been a long journey, full of laughter, pain, tears, gratitude, learning and most importantly rediscovering myself. It's taken me a lot of failures and losses to truly love myself. Unconditional self-love that does not fade away on bad days, because that's when I most need to remind myself that it's Ok to Feel and Fail.
I am often asked by the known, either directly or with an underlying message, of my plans to 'settle down'. Despite being polite, they tend to be unaware that polite concerns when expressed too often, become uncomfortable for the recipient. The not so known, who I’ve met during my entrepreneurial career in England, have often assumed that I am here with a genius husband who either works in IT or for NHS. Over the years I’ve mastered to ignore and laugh at these conversations, but at times I struggle to find entertainment in assumptions and stereotypes that society throws at us. I begin to falter, Self- Love comes really handy then!
Today, I want to reach out and thank everyone who has been instrumental in empowering me. I hope to keep contributing to create a more accepting world and celebrate each and everyone regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, parenthood status etc.
It's a privilege to breathe freedom. I wish to someday be able to say the same about every human who aspires to coin their personal definition of life 💕
@ Amritsar, Punjab