Notes From a Workdesk: LifeLately --1

There’s this thing about being brought up in an Indian home, all the traditions and customs (which are, by the way, really meaningful) somehow get deeply ingrained in you.

So, when starting off with a new venture, we Indians always remember our God, do a lil puja or something. Now that I am beginning with my passion project, the biggest dream project I have envisioned, I’d like to do something similar. No, I am not beginning with a puja ceremony or anything. I’d just like to begin by talking about my workspace, which I consider my place of worship.

With my sem break going on right now, (for I’m an engineering student), this, incidentally, is also how Life Lately has been.

Tucked away in a corner of my room, is my work desk, a space so wholly mine, it almost mirrors me. A simple wooden plank, I like to keep it hoarded with all my “essentials”- mostly my study notebooks, writing pad(for I always write on a whim), penstand, laptop, journal, and all the books I am reading right now.

But this isn’t all that makes it truly mine, what makes it so wholly mine is the flower picked on a random walk that adorns it, the tiny gifts from my friends filling up my penstand, the tiny bundle of perfectly transparent sticky notes, a duster, reflective of my rather OCDian instincts, a scrunchie and my never ending supply of lost bookmarks, if you’re a reader you know.

Sometimes I like between-work-snacking on my desk as well, though I always make sure to clean it up immediately.

Life Lately has been so majorly spent on this table. Whether its studying, working, listening to music or reading. I mostly do these curled up on my chair. It’s beautiful how such places, tiny corners of our homes mean so much to us,

Having a space of your own is extremely essential, I believe. I came up with this belief when I first read Sir Bond’s – A room on the roof. The book beautifully articulates how absolutely essential it is to have a room of your own, in other words, a space of your own. Hoping to gain further insight on the matter I purchased Virginia Woolf’s – A Room of One’s Own, but being rather bad at reading classics, I’m yet to complete it. My insight however remains incomplete. But I’ve been rather successful in designing it on my own, I guess.

So yea, coming back, having a space of your own is extremely essential, I believe. If not an entire bungalow, maybe a little corner like mine. For these are the spaces that help us define ourselves, set our comfort standards, make us ready to envision something that is so uniquely ours. The idea for Life Lately also struck me while listening to music, one afternoon in my workspace. That is the idea. To make such a space, your own space, so you that it helps you think and envision and build.

As I wrap up with the first post of Life Lately, I hope you also, dear reader, build a place that is truly yours, maybe a lil corner in your balcony, maybe a night tent in your room, anything, just a place that is truly yours, that defines you, that gives you that space, to breathe, to think, to be truly you.