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Life’s Like That When You Travel (inspired by Readers Digest)

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Life’s like that when you travel is what struck me in the middle of the night. The Life’s like that  is a famous series by Readers Digest, full of wisdom packed in little nuggets. As a teenager, that’s one monthly magazine I looked forward too, that taught me a lot about life and what works.

This is my tribute to the interesting column “Life’s Like that”!
I write this article while sitting at Terminal 2 of Delhi airport waiting for a connecting flight. It’s 2.30 am and I can’t doze.
While adults understand you can’t expect a bed while waiting at the airport, it’s a different matter for a six-year-old. Good thing the little angel liked the idea of camping at the airport!.

Life’s like that when you travel

  • Whichever airline you love, the connecting flight is a mystery.
  • The less luggage you have, the happier you are.
  • Whatever you say, scissors, knives, and cigarette lighters are not allowed as check-in luggage.
  • Cigarette lighters are not allowed at all!
  • If you carry baby food, you need to show a baby. Baby traveler is extra special.
  • Sometimes stale overpriced airport food is the only thing on offer. Eat before you travel and always have something in your bag to eat. Cucumber salad and biscuits are great too.
  • Exit lounges have nothing for you to eat. Until you check in you have limited eating options.
  • We all need wings. Airports are too crowded
  • Airport staff and flight attendants are unsung heroes.
  • Always carry wipes when you travel. You can never have too many wipes.
  • It’s no use lecturing the person cutting line. Just wiggle in front and present your I’d first. Point made.
  • Six or sixty the difference is debatable when you travel.
  • Time and Travel waits for no man or woman.
  • Travel is the best life experience.
  • Only when we travel we learn empathy.
  • Travel is a wonderful teacher of human nature.
  • Travel is vitamin for your soul.
  • Roti kappa makaan, retirement fund and travel .
  • Travel everywhere.
  • Until you travel away from home you don’t grow up.
  • Travel makes you trust your instinct.
  • Nature travel is the only kind which rejuvenates the mind.
  • Travel light, you will go far.
  • Never forget to travel with people you love.
  • Don’t marry someone who doesn’t love vacationing, the way you do.
  • Travel makes strangers friends.
  • The passenger in front of you will always have more luggage (cousin of Murphy ‘s law).
  • Trust God when you travel. For everything else you need insurance.

Hope you enjoyed this.Comment below to share a wise travel insight of your own.

Another post in the Life’s Like That series

Life’s Like that when you are a Book Lover

Monday Mommy Moments: Teaching the value of money (week 22)

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Teaching the value of money is difficult.Guess why?Because we have a twisted psychology towards it.If you have grown up in a middle-class family you have obviously heard the talk about living honestly and comfortably.Don’t need a lot of money!

Poverty is glorified and poverty and honesty seem to go together.While wealth and dishonesty are best friends.

That’s a big mind block to making or saving money.The mechanism is so ingrained that whenever people have more money they spend it on unnecessary items.This continues till they go back to that comfortable state of just enough money.

How useful is this psychology for Making or keeping Money?

Not useful at all.

For teaching children about money should come from childhood.What we teach now will influence them forever and shape their lives.Money is energy and is actually a means to barter.Money advice and lessons will depend a lot on the childs age and your relationship with money .

What I want to tell my daughter :Life lessons

Money is energy and is actually a means to barter.

When people give you a product or service we pay by giving money .Money should be exchanged in this way so that the balance is maintained.Saving money is very important. But so is earning more.In order to earn more the value, you provide with a service or product needs to be increased many folds.

That’s why you need to study hard and develop a useful skill so that you can help others and support yourself.

Spending money on unnecessary things which you don’t want to play with after 1 day is no fun.Save your pocket money to buy things which you will enjoy for a long time.

The extra pocket money will mean extra chores around the house.My daughter is five, and she helps me with making beds, management, tidying up her books crayons pencils.Keeping track of her own things.You can always give work according to age.Knowing housework is important for both boys and girls and this is basically three birds with one stone.Home management, money management and also  the value of honest work!

Always help others be self-sufficient.

Lending or borrowing money between friends should always be discussed with parents.

Keeping a little bit of your pocket money in the piggy bank will help you.

Always spend less than you earn.When you take care of your present your future will always be rosy.

 

5 Things to do with your child 

Open an account with him or her.A joint account with Guardian will get you a fully featured minor account.Beyond  10 years, they can have their own account too!.

Start a recurrent deposit with them which can act as a college fund for them too.

If you start investing in a mutual fund through online portals you will have time on your side and the magic of cumulative interest working for you!

You can give her bonus after she/he is able to save a particular amount every month.

Let her withdraw from the piggy bank, up to 30% of saved amount at one time.This way she not only will learn to save but also plan her own treats .1

You can also check out my saving money post

Earning money honestly and growing it is not BAD!It is in fact GOOD.When you create wealth that helps improve not only the situation of your family but also the economy of the country.Sounds far-fetched but , every drop matters.

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How to Be a Doctor in India: Empathy, Faith &FSM (Steps 5,6)

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This is a series of posts inspired by #AtoZ challenge.I will be demystifying the steps which you need to take to become a doctor in India.While I chart the A to Z of it I will share an actual blueprint of what exactly worked for me in the concluding part.

The intangibles

Empathy, energy, and etiquette.

Empathy is a rare quality.But I believe anyone who wants to be a doctor needs to have empathy.That will make you a good doctor.The only kind you should be.

Being a doctor is hard work and sleepless nights.

When do you start losing sleep?

From the first item tests or subject wise short vivas that you are subjected to after each segment is completed.This is right form first year.If you don’t study every day you will lose even more sleep.While this sleeplessness will depend on you with good planning it should not be a problem.

But we have some more fun stuff.When you become an intern you will have 24-hour on-call duties with post duty opd or surgery or ward rotations.Believe me, after 36 hours at the hospital the only thing you will have energy for is sleeping.

So thats, why good food, exercise, and healthy lifestyle habits formed early in life, will keep you fit enough to use your brain quickly.Thats why being a doctor is tough You will be deciding on important issues even when you are tired to the bone.

You can do it if you are passionate but it will be hard even then.The upside is you will learn like no book can teach you.It’s amazing what internship teraches.It’s the only time in your life you will be trained in all the branches of medical studies together and will learn to process the varied information quickly and accurately.

Energy drinks should be protein rich and low on sugar .Protein-rich meals will help you be stronger and keep your immunity boosted.If you are going to be a soldier against illness and disease, your own immunity needs to be in top shape.

Diet: Balanced rich in proteins, fruits, and veggies.

Multivitamin and multimineral supplements intermittently to fill the gap.

Probiotic and Prebiotics for good gut health.

Lift weights, walk, run, exercise daily.

Drink sufficient water and carry own water bottle.

The Subjects 

Eye and ENT

Both subjects are part of  Third Professional MBBS.These subjects will welcome you into the world of Clinical medicine.Both taught at the undergrads and have Postgrad Diploma and Degrees.Both have both Medical and surgical practices.The degree is an M.S or Master of Surgery.I did my M.S ENT from Safdarjung hospital New Delhi and it was the best experience and training I could ever hope for.Delhi is a favorite memory even now.That”s where we lived after we got married and that’s where I made some of my best friends.

Both also require work in the field of specially-abled children.


Faith, Financial freedom,  FSM and Family planning

Faith needs to be strong.Believe in a higher power who guides your path.Life and death are predetermined. Your work is to help serve those in need.Always respect those who let you help them.That’s how you win those brownies for the afterlife.There is one believe me(top secret)

The subject

Forensic Medicine /FSM 

Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws.It is used during the criminal investigation.It is governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.

When Forensic science and Medicine is taught together it’s an exciting branch where you will learn all about identifying the weapon from injury.Reconstruction of attack from wounds.Determining possible cause and nature of Death.

It is all things which medical detectives do on TV just even better.That’s why Robin Cook writes such brilliant medical thrillers and Arthur Conan Doyle could create a Sherlock Holmes.

[bctt tweet=”Doctors, after all, are natural detectives.We detect the mystery  ailment deep within you from the clues (what you say and what we see, hear and feel) #Healthwealthbridge #drAmritawrites” username=”misra_amrita”]

Taught in the second year, you appear for the exam in the second Professional MBBS.You learn about medico-legal issues doctors musrt be aware about when in practice.

This also has a post-grad qualification and opens up the scope of work even beyond becoming a physician.

About Financial Independence: I am passionate about this

Remember as an MBBS grad you are fully qualified to be a practicing General physician and for joining Government Hospitals and Medical colleges as a Medical Officer in various departments.One of the few branches of education which makes you financially independent after a graduation degree.

An internship has a good stipend.It’s paid and will make you feel on top of the world.When we did our internship it was only Rs 4000 given in West Bengal .But considering or per year study cost was Rs 200 this still made us feel like a King.While becoming a Doctor is neither fast nor an easy way to becoming financially free, but if you study sincerely it is one of the most definite ways of becoming financially free after your grads.

Its only after an internship that you get a permanent registration as a doctor in the Indian Medical Association.We need to update our future qualifications as and when we get it.Watch the video below to know more.

 

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Doctors need to develop self confidence to assess each person with ailment on a case to case basis with available  patient information and current best practices.This is where the true challenge lies.Since each diagnosis needs human interaction on a one to one basis the doctor-patient ratio in India makes this an insurmountable problem until Family planning is made the number one priority.

Question is who will bell the cat?

I think you will like these too.

How to Become a Doctor in India (Step 1 and 2)

How to become a Doctor in India (Steps 3 & 4)

16 study Tips from a Doctor mommy

Doctor Life and Crazy

How to become a Doctor in India?(Steps 3&4)

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This series is inspired by #AtoZblogging challenge .This is steps C and D after the  How to become a Doctor in India(1&2)

While it’s not an easy journey, its never boring,that’s something I can promise you.It’s also a self-discovery and self-improvement journey.Because

[bctt tweet=”Physician heal thyself! #Healthwealthbridge ” username=”misra_amrita”]This is s a proverb found in Luke 4:23.  is very true

To be a good doctor we need to try to heal ourselves every day.Empty the residue and fill up our souls with hope and thankfulness.Because those two are the secret ingredients to healing with grace.Everything you will learn will be useless if you don’t have hope in your mind, that all will be well and gratitude in your heart for this opportunity to help people.Because only the blessed can help!

All about C

The Human qualities: Compassion, confidence, and calling.

The Subjects: Community Medicine, Cardiology, and CTVS surgery.

Being a doctor is more a calling than a career.A profession where you not only have to use your brain with confidence but also listen to your heart is a tough one.While compassion helps you become a caring doctor, it is also the biggest reason behind the high rate of depression and suicide among Doctors.Caring for the sick and the infirm, the newborn and the geriatric will take its toll on the heart mind, body and spirit.

Until…

Yes until you recharge yourself with healthy lifestyle practices and happy family life.

The chronic stress of being a doctor is considerable.Good emotional health practices should go hand in hand with training to become a doctor.Its high time this was included as a compulsory additional to the course curriculum.

The course is tough.

The exams are tougher.

Real life where you treat patients, knowing that only one percent of the diseases in this world actually have proven cure may be overwhelming if you are not prepared.

Community Medicine is a very important subject taught in the third year of Medical College Undergrad training.It’s a very important subject where the role of inclusive community practices for sustainable and better health care practices are taught.The practical.involves visiting urban slums to spread awareness about health issues like mosquito-borne water-borne diseases.First steps treat diarrhea, Malaria, Dengue.It also teaches us the role of overcrowding pollution and poor socioeconomic and educational status play a role in healthcare.

It also teaches that Cleanliness is next to Godliness.Helping out in immunization clinics, are also a part if the training.The transition from lecture theatres to harsh reality can be mind-numbing without adequate preparation.This is an also, the subject which will teach you the concept of Universal Health coverage and why Healthcare needs to be inclusive.The exam for this is Third Professional MBBS part 1.

Cardiology and CTVS are both Super specialty subjects needing further studies after Post-Graduation.

This is another tough qualifying exam in your battle to get those letters after your name.While Cardiology mainly deals with the medical management of heart diseases.Cardiothoracic and vascular surgery involves surgical interventions of conditions involving Heart-lung and Thorax.Both require dedicated back-breaking training, experience, high-quality setup and fully qualified support staff for future practice.

D for Diploma and Degree

While both Degree and Diploma are postgraduate qualification and requires you to clear entrance examinations there are grey areas.A diploma is a two years course and makes you eligible for Government services needing post grad qualifications in some states.You can do a senior residency for a full period of 3 years after a Diploma for a boost to your CV and experience.But it may make teaching jobs in Medical Colleges challenging.A degree is preferred and has a mandatory three years training.

That’s it for this episode.

Watch out for the next part.

You may also enjoy 

How to Become a Doctor in India (Step 1 and 2)

How to Become a Doctor in India (Step 5 and 6)

Doctor Life and Crazy miracles

16 Study tips from a Doctor Mommy

 

 

#SayYesToTheWorld 11 Startling Travel Secrets (11 is fave)

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When I talk about eleven startling secrets about traveling, it’s not a post about best deals and destinations. It’s about my realization about how being a world traveler made me a better person.

When I was a little girl I used to study very hard. Guess why? My maternal uncle used to take us for summer holiday trips to different places. But this happened only when all the cousins were doing well. While this custom stopped with time and circumstances, my love for travel was forever.

Luckily the friend I married loves to travel too. While studying in Delhi for our PGs, we got married in our second year. We wanted to travel together married. We are both traditional that way. Also, I felt many of the Indian socio-economic-cultural norms help form deeper relations. They help us live and love freely without the burden of negative emotions. While love made us want to get married, our love of travel made marriage fun. Delhi is a cool place to travel from. Most of the major airlines have flights here. Comfort travel is high on my list, but more important are the simple insights into the human life we get.

My 11 Startling  Travel Secrets: SayYesToTheWorld

#1 When in Bhutan I realized why the people here have such high happiness quotient. It’s about being close to nature. Believing you exist as part of them.

#2 Human lives are strung in chords of the same song, that all animals and plants on this beautiful world sing.

#3 When we traveled to Srilanka the food made me realize how similar we all are, even across borders.Why exactly men fight no one knows but we are all poorer for going to wars. Travel inspiration exists everywhere. Most often when you are traveling you realize your thirst for some more of the same or something different. Whatever it is, more you travel the more you want to travel!


#4 In Iceland I realized how beautiful the world will be if we all stopped to think and cared more.Nature in its beauty gives us gifts of love, positivity, compassion, and empathy. By cutting trees and disturbing the ecological balance, we destroy our own chances of happiness. Is that worth it?

#5 In Milan the vertical gardens on the cityscape made me realize that’s the solution to pollution.

#6 In Singapore the Botanic garden stole my heart. That’s on my dream list. A treehouse, with mountains on one side and the sea beach on the other.No harm in dreaming right? When you love the world, the world loves you right back!

#7 In Dubai the splendor of all things with the contrasting stories of immigrant workers made me realize.

#8 The only way to a happier and peaceful world is one where all are educated.

11 Startling Secrets about Travel #SayYesToTheWorld
11 Startling Secrets about Travel #SayYesToTheWorld

While education is not a magic wand it will give you more choices.

  • The choice not to be bonded labor.
  • The choice to live life with dignity
  • The choice to live with family.

#9 It’d also during traveling with family that some of my best blogging projects appeared.

I blogged while waiting at airports. I blogged sitting in a coffee shop in Paris. All this was possible because the Internet travels with us.

#10 The power of technology and the power of positive thinking, together makes travel an opportunity like no other.

#11 Travelling opens up the heart, mind, and soul.

[bctt tweet=”Travel makes your spirit breathe! #SayYesToTheWorld” username=”misra_amrita”]

It challenges my ability to adjust. It makes me look deep into your soul. It makes me thankful. A thankful heart is a happy heart. Travel makes me happy.

Celebrate life with a thankful heart.

My thoughts on how travel makes me open-minded:

I stop feeling like I know everything. This, unfortunately, lasts for the duration of travel. Then I start feeling like a super mom, Batman with Harry Potter all rolled into one! I realize how blessed I really am. I feel thankful for the kindness of strangers.I understand the role of population, natural resources, and health of a nation. I also realized some truths we all know, but need to travel to accept!

Read my full disclosure here. While all the realizations are heartfelt, the travels are virtual. 

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