Remainder –just a page from my notebook!

Time flashes by, and we don't get around to do what we spend time deciding to – strange it is, isn't it? Honestly speaking, I may have to go through my diary to see when I wrote something on my blog last. It had become routine to write after every 2 to 4 days for the blog but there was an abrupt change in the schedule and by the time I realized it I had quit – that is the way things happen.

I just like every day was in my office and felt strong about sharing it with Paul. I was like trying a little harder, as bits of the thought were dispersed in my mind. Soon I found out where to begin with. It was I think in the year 2010 when I left home after I had had a number of problems. It was a year and a half of staying away from my family in a rented flat where I grew this habit of writing things that really helped me a lot and at times saved my face too.

I strongly suggest that in the beginning of the day, we must make a list of things to do and see to them again at the end of the day. There is no need to begin with the long stories – you can write in bullet points. One of the best techniques is to use diaries that have date and month printed on every page. Start writing from the page that has today’s date and day written on top or any of the sides; right or left. In this way, you will soon develop this habit which will benefit you beyond your imagination.

Anyways, I recalled some of the things that I had found in one of the diaries where I saw a heading big enough to catch my attention -- Remainder. It contained some figures five-digit ones. As I read I learnt I had borrowed some 8k from someone very kind. I also hadn’t written anything there except, “remaining amount to be paid”. Not to mention, just close to it, found something similar. It was about 25k for some important purpose. Thanks to the habit of writing things, esp. that are important.

After I'd shared it with Paul. He was like as if he had liked that idea of making notes or maintaining a diary. He then asked me to share my experience. Here I'd like to add one thing more that I think one of the reasons for developing this habit was my father's sudden death. It actually came down hell on us. We might have been mentally prepared if there had been any serious medical condition as it usually is the case. But as I said it was sudden, it scattered the entire family. To crown it all, not even my mother knew how he was keeping the family. I mean we all knew that he'd drawn some profit from some bank but after his death, it was much to our surprise that there was no money at all. I myself met a number of people but all our efforts fell flat. This all taught me a lesson to never keep your things to yourself.

Now all my family memebers know everything about me; things that men in our society don't discuss such as how much they make, how much is their savings and similar things.

I learnt this lesson after such a tragic juncture in my life. It is just about a few minutes and you are done. It makes you so organized and well-informed that you hardly get into the troubles that have to do thinking hard about when something happened.