To you my child...and to all the parents out there

I never thought I was ready for motherhood before I got you. Now I know I would have never felt ready while I was as ready as ever all the time. Since the time I started nurturing you inside me to the moment you arrived ...to date...a lot has been constantly and rapidly changing into life and its all for the good, it all feels good like never before.

For the first time in life, I am having the full responsibility of nurturing and shaping a human being..a responsibility bigger than anything else, a pressure greater than any other pressure..but in the process of helping you grow, I am seeing myself grow. I was never so passionate and patient at the same time, I was never so loving as this. I had never experienced this saying "when you love someone truly you see them everywhere". I literally see you in every child I look at, I feel my heart filled with a new level of compassion and care. Had you not come into my life, I would have never felt this unconditional love inside me.

Tech Talk...Apache 403 forbidden error

I have worked with apache a lot during my career and I am never able to remember all the configurations required there for various apache behavior tuning at different levels but one thing that has surely helped me in solving the 403 errors time and again, particularly with the home page loading after the first time apache is configured on the fresh environment is this:

<Directory />

    Order allow,deny

    Allow from all

    Require all granted

</Directory>

Make sure the right permissions are provided at the root directory level and you should be good to go.

(With the assumption that you can safely allow all the incoming requests to pass through). Hereafter you can do VirtualHost specific configurations for allowing or denying certain requests as per your project requirement.

A fresh start with venturing into the unknown

it's always so refreshing to make a new start on a fresh slate. It's not so easy to do it every time, in all the situations, but when it happens, it makes you feel a new surge of energy inside you. There's no peer pressure, no fear of failure and no sky rocketing expectations when things are being started on a clean slate. Every baby step that one takes brings a feeling of achievement, no matter how small or big. There's a new boost of confidence and a new force inside you to scale the new heights. Yet people often fear starting on a clean slate because it comes at the price of leaving behind the known, getting out of one's comfort zone and venturing in the unknown. Those who are able to muster the courage to step into that unknown , they get rewarded with the benefits of starting fresh and the pleasure of exploring the unknowns, learning and creating while life goes on :-)

Life has come a long way since those days way back in the past that I can think of. Things might or might not have been more comfortable had I not made that decision to step out of the comfort of my home to study in an unknown college ,in an unknown city, between unknown people, or, when I made a job switch just when I got comfortably set into the previous job or numerous other such situations in my personal life. But one thing that I know for sure is that life must not have been as enriching had I not done all that I mentioned above. In fact it would have got so monotonous that it might have been difficult to keep going. Every change was uncomforting to start with, but unknowingly refreshing at the same time, and helped me grow in some way. And the journey continues.....