a hint of restlessness settles,longing for a yesterday when worries were only about being young and naive.my mind is unable to make up what it needs to do todayto free from the tumultuous affair, it’s dealing with! there were joys and sorrowsin the days those are gone but today all I remember is a trail of laughtersplashed in my memoriestoday all I long for is to go back to those days of fun yet I succumb to the stronghold of the present and a million questions of the futuremaybe, when I stop squirming under the weight of dreams and wishesand […]
Category: Random Thoughts
All That I’m Grateful For
I haven’t written a gratitude post this year. It wasn’t intentional, but in some ways it was intentional too. Let me explain. I felt that a gratitude post would lead to too much disclosure of my personal life. I am way less active in social media for a while now. And I didn’t feel the need to celebrate every little joy or to show every little frown online. But I think there is some downside to this way of thinking. My voice, where is it! You know, when you go quiet for some time, you get comfortable in that quietness […]
Be Your Own Lighthouse #SoulfulSunday
Every morning is an opportunity to begin again. I wouldn’t have believed that some years ago. But now I believe that to bring any change in life, all we need is to decide and act. There is no need to wait for signs from the Universe. There are not going to be any miracles that result in a new life. All it takes is our decision to do this instead of that. Sometimes I feel that we get used to our ways too much that we blame it on fate, destiny, circumstances, etc. instead of going for what we want. […]
When Words & Muse Doesn’t Get Along #SoulfulSunday
Today was one of those days where I felt it was impossible to write. See, it wasn’t the lack of topic ideas that stumped me. I had a few things in my mind to write about. I even started writing on one of those topics. Then it didn’t feel right to me. So I scratched it and started working on another topic which I wanted to write. Soon that also felt not right to me. So I started to write something else hoping that it would feel right. But nothing seemed right. I wasn’t satisfied with anything. What I wanted […]
The Rules of Living #SoulfulSunday
In the latest episode of Grey’s Anatomy, an unconscious Meredith describes how a newborn takes the first breath outside the womb. She describes it as the scariest step a human does. Breathing on its own for the very first time. Thinking about it, it made me accept the enormity of the task. That tiny little being secured inside another human’s body in layers of cushions takes its journey to the outside world for the first time. It’s an unfamiliar route having never done this before. No fully formed humans remember this journey either. It’s a solo trip. It’s something this […]
Fiction Monday – 39
Hello writers! Welcome to the thirty-ninth edition of Fiction Monday. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default. ~ J.K. Rowling J.K Rowling is a fabulous writer. Harry Potter series is filled with her pearls of wisdom. Each time I read a Harry Potter book I am presented with another insight into life. I think it is beyond amazing how a book on magic is so much based on an ordinary element as life. When I […]
The Million Crossroads and life #SoulfulSunday
Had I taken the other road,⠀Might I still be thinking today,⠀Had I taken the other road!⠀ -Vinitha This week I read the book The Midnight Library by Matt Haig. It was a fantastic read. I finished the book in four days. This book gave me some much-needed perspective. I started thinking about my other lives where I could be a success in some and a failure in some others. The more I thought about it, it appeared clear to me. That, this is the life I would be choosing again given the choice. To begin with, I chose this path […]
Fill Your Cup With Gratitude #SoulfulSunday
A few minutes ago I got the news of another loss. Another life lost. Another family pushed to grieve. Another face wiped off from the surface of the earth. It’s becoming a piece of everyday news now. True, people passed away before also. But since the last couple of years, I’ve heard more number of younger people in their 40s and 30s passing away than the number of older people departing. This way 10, 20 years later there won’t be any older people here. People in their 60s and 70s would be a thing of the past. But that isn’t […]
Beneath the Layers #SoulfulSunday 4
When I write morning pages in the morning, to absorb all my thoughts into a piece of paper, I often find myself empty. I feel nothing. Words disappear. Thoughts hide somewhere. But I know they aren’t gone. Probably just shy. As I sit here to write down my immediate thoughts, I look around and see the lights on the Christmas tree shining peacefully. It reminds me of the lighted evening lamps that appear on the frontage of the houses during the many train journeys I had had in my college years from Trivandrum to Kannur. Those train journeys gave me […]
Fiction Monday – 24
Hello everyone! Welcome to the twenty-fourth edition of Fiction Monday. “Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer I think we can apply this thought even during midday or in the evening. Now is the time. When we decide it’s time to focus on our work, our creativity, that’s the starting point. What you say? Stories From The Twenty-third Edition The Tornado by AkshataStorm as a pretext by Suzana Thank you for sharing the stories Akshata and Suzana. Fiction Monday The idea is simple – […]