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I came home yesterday and found that my 3 year old son has fever, though he was in a pretty good spirits.  That is the thing with kids getting sick.  Parents feel more for the kid than the kid themselves.  They are generally in jovial mood unless the temperature goes beyond 100C or if they start feeling lethargic.

I finally got to have my favourite fruit- Black Jamuns.  Our driver saw them with some sabziwala so, he bought them for me.  I guess in Tamil it is called "Nagapalam".  Interesting..I learn new things everyday.

Additionally, I had worked out early in the morning yesterday and then I worked out again in the afternoon.  Surprisingly, I still feel refreshed.  I did about 50-60 push-ups yesterday.  I don't intend to do that many everyday, but I wanted to find out how far my body can go and looking at how I feel today, it seem I can probably do even more. :)  So, I guess it is all in the mind.

I have started doing meditation in the morning around 5:30am.  Although I am unable to go beyond 5 minutes, I feel it will come with time and concentration.   I still get thoughts flooding in while I concentrate on breathing and each thought takes me away from my concentration.  I just need to stick to it.  One thing I can say is that this routine of meditation and exercise keeps me quite fresh throughout the day.  I have also started to listen more to people.  I don't break their conversation as often as I used to, and I believe working at the subconscious level helps break all these bad tendencies.
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