Diving Deep Within Yourself Is The Solution To All Your Woes

Sharmila Bhosale finds that diving deep within yourself is the solution to all your woes. However, one must be cautious enough to not stray into the realm of overthinking, as that is counterproductive.

- Sharmila Bhosale

Maya was fascinated by the spacious sea view apartment, a prime acquisition in Mumbai. Her husband was a businessman, and as their bank balance soared, an apartment in a high-rise was the next step to upscale their lifestyle. She loved doing up her new place: discovering a palette for the decor, carving out spaces, choosing furnishings, and watching her vision transform the bare spaces. It appealed to her inherent artistic nature to watch a place come alive, to imbue it with a distinct character, to create a home.

When the time came to move, though, she developed cold feet. After two decades of living in a homely neighbourhood, where everyone knew each other in the predominantly middle-class milieu, a shift to an impersonal, huge, and high-society environment, equipped with the so-called luxurious amenities, seemed to take away something from her very soul. She realised she liked the quiet life. A space that was intimate and comfortable, not opulent and high up in the air—literally. She wondered how she had ever taken a decision to move homes, how she had agreed to buy this property, however much she had enjoyed decorating it. Not exactly impulsive, but she realised that she hadn’t given much thought to all the aspects of what moving house to a high-rise would entail and what uprooting herself from her old familiar spaces would mean. She realised she just hadn’t given this decision enough time and thought. She hadn’t introspected.