Smile over Presence, Do Not Cry Over Absence
Our life often tends to move towards a materialistic theme. Though money cannot buy all the happiness in the world, it certainly forms an essential tool for survival. While materialistic resources are designed for convenience, utility and requirement, we often rely over them for happiness, pleasure and satisfaction. As the greed to own latest gadgets …
Personal Identity
Day One: The News
Reader’s Note – This story revolves around the unexpected loss of an unborn child. That gut instinct that something is wrong; I hate it. The intuition started on Sunday – as I was getting ready for church I noticed my stomach didn’t look as round and full as it did the day before. I told myself it …
Family Tree
Rejection Is Not A Dead End
An email containing words of rejection for one of my submitted articles, prompted me to pen my thoughts over it. While extremely disappointed and sad over this event, as I spent my Monday morning pondering about what went wrong, I realized that the sorrow was interfering with my future course of work. Though rejection spelt …
My First True Perception of Light
“Jagged vacance thick with ice”: By happenstance I stumble upon an opal acre, a frosted wheat field forgotten during harvest season. Tamest Winter, what a visionary is She: Her tawny sea, adorned in glassy dew-drop pearls, sways to the melody of my elevated thoughts. Her sunbeams sing across the diamond plain: Nature’s truest complexion is …
Dream and Dare
Dreams are reflection of our imagination. Many a times, when we think about a particular aspect for more than usual, we visualize their occurrence in our dreams. While dreams imagined during our sleep are involuntary activities beyond our control, there are many dreams that we desire and wish for by our own will. Also labelled …
Head Full of Sugar
You uniformly rise from your bed, pleased to not be dead. Like others, you line your body with threads, only there’s sugar in your head. Coffee abound for your daily grind— —as it brews you open the blinds to reveal that yesterday’s well-behind. But sugar and fog plague your mind. How do you remember aeons …