Pointless Goal (sorry): I must have a goal because of–my company, my friends, my family, my acquaintances, my existence. I’ll do anything to achieve. I’m thinking Accepted Goal: I want to do enough that I have a safe life–marriage, education, retirement, savings, some social life, facilitate marriage of the next generation, insurance (Near) Precise Goal: [...]
Continue reading …Near my house there is one school. Like every school, it also has a slogan “We adopt your child for 16 years”. Suddenly, A fact struck me. Every school does that. More or less every school is the same when it comes to child care. Remembering those drivers who know us only by face, yet [...]
Continue reading …Three years back, when I was a class X student in Vivekananda School, Anand Vihar, I used to think myself as an intelligent student as far as this subject English is concerned. Its not that in other subjects I didn’t know anything or I was not interested in studying them. It was just that English [...]
Continue reading …After my X class board exams, I had three months to enjoy as I was free of studies. But still in a few weeks I started feeling as if I have become a Bumpkin as I had no serious work to do. So I decided to join some classes to keep myself busy. 30 Apr [...]
Continue reading …The complexity of human emotions is something that is almost impossible for our lowly minds to comprehend. When the emotional wheels start churning, complex chemical reactions within the hypothalamus trigger synapses to short, releasing hormones that in some (almost magical) way, decide how we feel. It feels truly terrible to miss someone who doesn’t miss [...]
Continue reading …“What is this place?” Ms. Oh-so-green-eyes exclaimed, a concoction of anxiety and amusement spilling from her voice,” I just don’t see any girls around!” I tightened my mouth, creased my brows and let my eyes run wildly over the myriad heads filing in and out of the canteen entrances, and after a quick inspection of [...]
Continue reading …Someone once said rightly that nothing comes for free in this world. In order to gain something, you got to lose something and whenever you lose something, you gain something. Of late I have been realising this fact. The notion of gaining for losing and losing for gaining has comes to my mind as I [...]
Continue reading …This time when she picked up her pen again, she was resolute in its use. The plastic cap was removed and she stuck it behind her ear, hoping to forget its existence for the next few hours. She got up hurriedly to look for paper. Paper that had long been saved for scribbles, mumblings and [...]
Continue reading …Its all in your mind. Is what my mom answered when i asked her about how can i become the man of my dreams. I dint understand it back then, i was left wondering “how will my mind help me?” And her words were lost in my daily play and tasks of growing up. But [...]
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