About Me — Gurpreet Dhariwal
“It’s about a girl who is on the cusp of becoming someone. A girl who may not know what she wants right now, and she may not know who she is right now, but who deserves the chance to find out.”― Jodi Picoult
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” ― Hunter S. Thompson
In the year 1986, I arrived on Mother Earth. Since then I knew I never wanted to be a part of this world. It felt like my world was right at the place from where God did send me here.
Neverminded! I am here now.
I am a highly sensitive person who never knew about this until 2015. I kept on believing that I ain’t an emotional person but when I published my first book of poetry I realized I have been full of emotions since genesis. Kindness and humbleness come naturally to me but if someone behaves out of the loop, well I fix them right away.
I love to write, paint, workout, dance, and cook. I have always been keen on learning new things and for that, I need not interact with people. I can be on my own in finding the solution to anything and everything. That’s how I experimented with Mexican, South Indian, Italian, and North Indian food.
My heart resides in the eyes of the dogs and I find them as the most innocent and lovable creatures in this whole world. I drink often with my father and I would have never asked a better drinking buddy than him in my life. He is a great human being with such an honest heart. I love him for who he is.
I don’t treat my mother as my mother because she is my best friend and a soul friend. She makes me laugh and at times I find her so charming and beautiful. She has learned great things in her knitting work on her own. I am very proud of her. I have siblings who live abroad and I don’t like them either. I have issues with everyone who doesn’t take care of their parents no matter what.
“Dear God,” she prayed, “let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry…have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere — be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.” ― Betty Smith
All families have issues and people must grow not as per their age but in maturity and understanding others. Also, I certainly believe in “As you sow so shall you reap”. I don’t believe in taking revenge and I forgive people easily. I have forgiven my estranged husband too but I am not going to get my divorce case closed without teaching him a fine lesson. If there were no lessons, people would have been repeating the same with others too. I don’t want that to happen.
If I can make stop something worse to happen then why not?
I have an OCD (Obsessive-compulsive disorder) of cleaning and sorting things out in a particular order. If someone would pick my things from one place and keep them somewhere else I would go and teach them how to do it right. It is that compulsive. I am disciplined too. If I make up my mind about things I make sure that I achieve them on time.
I would say I have been known by plenty of people but I have few friends. I don’t count my friends on the tips of the fingers but I make sure with whom I am interacting and investing my time. I don’t entertain morons at all as I believe in “It’s better to be alone than in a bad company”.
On Medium, I have been blocked by many people without any reason and explanation. I wasn’t seeking one either in the first place. I wished them Goodluck in my mind. Whatever I am sharing with you all here comes straight from my heart and soul. I play no games and I can detect lies easily. There are many things in this world to be bothered about than winning someone’s trust via lies. I ain’t that human.
I have been a solo traveler and loved going to new places meeting new people. I am super clever when I travel alone. It won’t show on my face but I know how to be safe and secured in the first place. I don’t think so there is any place on the earth where we feel safe except inside our brain.
Today, I am going to share some of my pictures from childhood and I hope you love them.
I cannot recall how old I was but old enough to be photogenic here. Lol. I am here in the middle along with my siblings (left my sister and right is my brother).
My first picture in the photo studio all alone. Please look at the kind of blush my mommy applied on my cheeks.
I am with my siblings and mommy the greatest.
I was 5 years old here and when I reached school all of a sudden my class teacher wanted to click my picture in this particular pose on the function day.
That’s me in the year 2002 with my dad at Rock Garden, Chandigarh, India.
“I am convinced that most people do not grow up…We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.” ― Maya Angelou
Gurpreet Dhariwal is the author of “My Soul Rants: Poems of a Born Spectator.” Her eBook is now available at Google PlayStore, Amazon, and Kindle. Connect with Gurpreet on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or Youtube