Sonya Syed

At last the weekend is here, all due rest which has not been properly received shall be taken now. Yesterday I was in quite low spirits for no apparent reason, just feeling some strange emotions in connecting some invisible dots of life. Thankfully today has been good, especially after meeting a young girl and listening to her thoughts. She is around 7 or 8 years of age, we met where I am learning to stitch and she is taking arts and craft classes. As soon as she finishes her work she come and sits with me, shows real interest in what ever I do. She encourages my efforts and always appreciates my work and it is strange that with our age differences we feel really good in each others company. I tell you she has some personality, although appearance wise she is very simple tiny wears glasses and have braided hair. Yet when she speaks I cannot help but listen to her and pay full attention to our conversation. So today I asked her the routine questions that one would ask...

Never have been so challenged in my entire life by anybody or any activity the way I have been put to test these days. On the insistence of my mother, family & friends I have taken up the unfathomable task to learn stitching. My teacher has taken the challenge of teaching of me this art or at least the basics in 2 months, I pray for her sanity. I thought not to bring this subject as my post topic but the way stitching is over-shadowing my life I decided that it should be talked about. I have to admit that I possess neither the talent nor the acumen to learn this intricate process. At first they taught me to make precise lines on brown sheets and then cutting them, till that point I was going fine. The real challenge began the moment teacher shifted from paper to clothing material, real life sewing machine, scissors, needle, thread and God knows what else. There are actually two threads that work in the sewing machine, if I got one of them right the other broke, t...

In the company of the accomplished, you learn to accomplish too, or be inspired to do it too.* I liked this line and it inspired me to begin today’s post. Yes its so true that the people around us have great influence on us. One is not required to be in physical proximity but merely by observing someone accomplished one could learn a lot. Probably that’s why when anybody is learning to paint or draw they are asked to watch the work of the artists before them and also the work of other people living in their times. It has happened to me while I thinking to write blog. I got interested in writing when one of my cousins invited me to visit her blog, but when I wrote few paragraphs I realized that writing is not my cup of tea. I thought I should better stick to writing straightforward legal opinions and drafting of agreements as that was what I learned to do. A year elapsed after registering to Blogspot, I didn’t write single word and one day I saw Mr. Amitabh Bachchan t...