MAYA aka iLlUsIoN - beware!

I landed into Mumbai airport at 7:20am today and I was at the exit door trying to book for uber cab to GenNext office. One lady (I guess, she was in the same flight as I did), walks up to me and starts saying, 'can I pls say something?'. I was like thinking, maybe she wants to share a cab or something and nodded my head. She continues, 'I have never seen anyone so gorgeous like u, you are very beautiful' and walks away. I am not sure if she even heard me saying, 'oh! Thank you!'. I stood there blank...thinking, 'what just happened' - if Aishwarya rai probably heard this, she would cry. This lady must be one of those individuals who gets up in the morning and decides 'ok, I am going to compliment 3people today ...no matter what'. Grrrrr!!!..... 

If she had given me another moment, probably I would have shared her my secret prescription as well - a bad dating week, dead appetite for 3meals, 2hours of sleep, wake up at 3am, no makeup, get on a really early flight and have a grumpy head - that was it. Ugh! all my anger - this is my life, MAYA aka 'illusion' playing its games.

This travel to Mumbai was a good distraction for me....*MAYA talking* - sitting in India's power house - one of reliance's boardrooms, along with all their leaders, listening to them talk about how GenNext's strategy will change the face of Indian startup ecosystem was amazingly encouraging. For a moment, I played along with the MAYA.... thinking how fortunate etc, well! this was not what I want. So, I quietly got up ...met one senior member  (Raghunath Mashelkar - a humble n down to earth gentleman, senior research professor, padmabusan), picked up his personally autographed book and walked out from there as networking sessions continued. For the remaining afternoon, met up with a friend, visited my cousin and spent most time in Mumbai traffic. 

So what happened to MAYA (illusion)?...it ended as soon as I was walking towards the Mumbai airport security gate on my return...my left shoe ripped it's sole open and I was dragging my foot to keep the shoe on ... 

Well! reality, we cannot miss that..I am gonna just stay close to it ...