tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1403027627321054802024-03-13T20:56:58.375+05:30Pages from a Young DiaryAshna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.comBlogger186125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-76883612720721509882020-01-08T11:29:00.000+05:302020-01-08T11:29:12.448+05:30Hi 2020!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It was with the utmost trepidation that I saw the date on my last post - almost 2.5 years! I don't even know what to write right now. There's so much, yet it can all be summed up in two sentences. Life has <i>changed. </i>I have been through total life <i>events </i>in these past 2 years, that I didn't even get much time to introspect, let alone having time to gather my thoughts and write them down. But as they say, once your descent into madness begins, that is when the writer in you flows out. I'm not "mad" mad or any kind of mad much, really. It is to do with not having written anything peacefully in such a long time that I feel I have an overflow of thoughts and feelings that <i>need </i>to be here, to be looked at in a structured manner that makes sense. </div>
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Because when life takes you to one new phase, you enjoy it. But then when it keeps taking you from one to the next without pause, constantly, quickly, even though it is great, it is still exhausting! I mean, I <i>miss </i>having this time and this mindset and this willingness to sit down and write here. While changes allow one to experience themselves in a new light, nothing beats the comfort of familiarity. Anyway, if you still haven't guessed, I got <i>married! </i>To a charming young man who has patiently accepted all my whims and fancies. If that wasn't crazy enough, over the past two years I have moved two countries, worked several jobs, learned cooking, managing a household, makeup (!!!) and a ton of things I was oblivious to in my past life. It is really a lot to absorb - give me a break.</div>
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One side effect of all this is the busyness keeps you from feeling that willingness and energy to write, read, spend time on personal leisure activities. On the up side, I have explored a whole new version of me, parts of which I wish I had before. For instance, I can do a whole face of flawless makeup, I can cook without looking at recipes (!!!), I have watched so many movies and TV series it makes me melt in guilt, and I've spoken to numerous people from <i>all </i>walks of life that it opened me up to accepting new perspectives. That's just a few of the things - I am sure there's a lot more that's evading my thoughts right now, probably because it's almost 1AM. I will stop now and leave the main bits for later, but I need to post this because I am looking forward to starting this beloved and comforting blog again. :)</div>
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PS- Man, did I really start this blog almost TEN YEARS back? Is that even real? Possible? THIS is how life happens, people.</div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-92186543866234904292017-08-29T10:07:00.001+05:302017-08-29T10:07:12.900+05:30I'll still be me...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This is for those who're beginning any new phase in life and feel anxious about losing their old selves in the process<i>. </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Long after change has wrapped me, completely,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">When you've seen me in a different avatar</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Seeming to stem from my mind or my heart</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let this be a reminder to later see,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">At the very core, I'll still be me</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">A different face, a different style</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Would be borne out of a wish</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">To keep up and blend without a blemish</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's nothing wrong</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">To want a smooth sail</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Even I am scared,</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">What if I fail?</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">This feeling's one of a kind</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just see deep under my smile</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's still just mine</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite all the change you see</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'll always still be me...</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">~Ashna</span></i></div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-74706802317375367432017-03-31T21:51:00.001+05:302017-03-31T21:51:49.469+05:30The anatomy of fear<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A big portion of our life is spent dealing with this thing called fear. More often than not, fear comes in disguise. We don't realise it's essentially 'fear' we are facing. Sometimes it really annoys me when I'm sitting and just not feeling good. There seems to be no valid reason for it. I am a girl who goes by logic. I have everything I could need in life. There are always more aspirations, of course, but I don't crave them as such. Then why can't my heart be light and happy? What is it that draws me under, for no apparent reason? I was sitting and staring at my bookshelf, thinking about this, when I saw this book called <i>Mastermind--How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes</i>. I've always loved the way Holmes can sit and THINK logically and know answers to the most baffling questions. Could I solve this riddle in my life in the same way?</div>
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Turns out that even if you cannot 'solve' such questions, you can surely find yourself introspecting and having certain realisations that can help you understand it better. It's like the way it happens when you're feeling sick--unless you KNOW what's the cause of your illness, you'll keep getting paranoid and feeling worse. Knowing the cause immediately makes you feel a whole lot better, because you then know what to do about it. Knowing, understanding, is key.</div>
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I had also come across an article that talked about why our generation is generally more unhappy--the expectations we have from ourselves, drawn from the expectations our previous generation has from us, are way higher than what the current state of the world can afford. The world is changing too fast--and we're stuck with expectations that arose decades ago. We can't keep up with them. This, however, is a generation-wide case. What can be done is to KNOW that this is a problem and find your own ways of dealing with it.</div>
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So, what IS fear? What is it that makes us afraid of facing our fear? Here are some definitions I realised can be termed as our fears:</div>
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1. That feeling when you realise you might not fulfill a loved one's expectations. Or your own, for that matter.</div>
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2. Fear is not a 'pre' concept. You can feel fear for a situation that has already passed. You either did not feel it at that time or the intensity of other emotions was more than fear. This happened with me and adventure rides. I'd always been keen on rides that made you turn upside down, go full speed in dark tunnels, or make you enter creepy passageways, but later on when I stand and look at other people on those rides, I am fearful, a good number of what-ifs running through my mind, making my heart beat faster with anxiety. I'm scared of it all--AFTERWARDS. </div>
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There have been other similar feelings--looking at the vulnerability of college-going kids sitting around the metro stations and realising you survived it all. That split-second shudder you get when you think about how you were lucky enough to have it smooth.</div>
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3. Fear is uncertainty. That feeling when a loved one doesn't pick your call(s); when you wait for a result; when you bite your nails thinking about a future event; when your heart beats rapidly before you have to address someone; when you want to know what the other person is thinking but you're afraid to ask. </div>
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4. Fear is intuition's enemy. Fear likes to creep in silently or to surprise us, but our intuition warns us beforehand. </div>
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5. Fear feeds on pessimism. Fear captures our mind when it's busy with what-ifs and have-nots. </div>
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6. Fear lives in the mind. A child is fearless because she/he cannot differentiate between the dangerous and the safe. A child's mind has no compartments for fear to hide in. We are fearful of situations that have never happened, and that is where fear wins. It makes us keep thinking of something we don't want till we end up suffering from that very thing. </div>
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7. Fear is ruthless. You can't plead with it to stop; you can't ask it to come later. </div>
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Well, I'm still a long way away from being like Holmes, but at least I managed to dissect the idea of fear to be able to better understand it (and write a post about it, which matters SO MUCH). Apart from this, there are some genuine reasons too (such as the pollution and stress and population and politics and whatever else we're surrounded with), but I still don't know why, even when you know the reasons, you can't shake off the anxious beating of your heart. My heart, for one, never ever listens to my brain's instructions. It's a spoilt brat that way.</div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-86076337579621297852017-01-05T19:03:00.000+05:302017-01-05T19:51:26.628+05:302016 Recap; Hello 2017!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Another year gone, seemingly in the blink of an eye (why o why? Take it slow, life!), and all I can think is, "THIS was the year of absolute changes and it's incredible how I've come to accept <i>and </i>embrace it." You know how I would always state that I don't really like changes, but then comes a time in life when you are so severely tested that it finally dawns upon your scorched soul that changes can be for the better and it'd be wise to enjoy life the way it is. No whining.</div>
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I'll be frank. I did whine. A lot. 2016 brought with it tons of mind-boggling situations, major decision-making, super annoyances BUT with the grace of the almighty (and my restored faith in Him) the year ended quite pleasantly. Here's a summary of 2016 (including resonant answers to deep questions):<br />
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1. Reminiscing the past by re-reading Harry Potter! I ended up reading just the first four books, after which <strike>life happened</strike> I realised we need to work to survive.</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Lesson learned</span></i></b>: Work is important, but not important enough to discontinue reading Harry Potter! Nothing ever is.</div>
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2. Feeling inhibitions that my three-month old workplace isn't ideal. The feeling quickly escalated and I began a job search in the same industry (aka publishing aka the home for my beloved books). <b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Lesson learned</span></i></b>: Listen to your heart and begin looking for a job right when you feel it! The process takes ages and you might end up losing your sanity if you aren't quick enough. I saved mine, thank goodness!<br />
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3. Travelling to Jaipur with a couple of girl-friends just to chill and relax. Experienced life in Zostel, roamed around the city markets, visited historical forts and acted like typical tourists. #itwasfun</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Lesson learned</span></i></b>: Trips with friends always equal jannat.</div>
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4. Securing a freelance work op with a biggie publisher. Hi-5! The best two months of my work life (after which... erm... please don't ask. Kbye.)</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Lesson learned</span></i></b>: Don't judge yourself based on others' opinion of you. Also, good times don't last. But again, it's all for the best!<br />
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1. The family trip to Australiaaa. Those days I felt like I knew what it means to be truly happy--it was such an amazing trip! You can read about it in the <b><a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/11/stay-tuned.html" target="_blank">previous post</a></b>.</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Lesson learned: </span></i></b>The frog needs to get out of the well more often.<br />
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2. Hard luck and illness can strike anyone, even a 5yo barely two months into school. My beautiful nephew was diagnosed with cancer. We did some fundraising to help the family cover treatment costs. It was an overwhelming experience for us all as we saw people from all walks of life come forward to help.</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Lesson learned</span></i></b>: You can never know beforehand who's going to be your support in times of trouble. Be grateful for everything.</div>
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<b>Update</b>: His initial phase of chemo is almost at a close, and he seems to be doing well. Much love and appreciation for everyone's help. :')<br />
You can follow his story on this <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/helparnav/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a></b>.<br />
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1. Desperation at the job front, looking at other industries and failing classically. Realising that successes are hard to get, and keeping one's will power in check requires every ounce of effort one can muster.</div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Lesson learned</span></i></b>: Keep going. Be visibly appreciative of family and friends who stick with you even when they suffer the effects of your mood swings.<br />
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1. Incessant prayers worked their magic and I got just the very thing I wanted. It also feels quite exciting, so yay!</div>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Lesson learned</b></span></i>: Feel free to weave your dreams, but <i>always </i>go with the flow. Every experience gives lasting value and shapes your mind, psychology and behaviour. Be open and accepting, and before you know, you'll get what's best for you. And you'll know it when you see it!<br />
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I recently came across these lines by the philosopher Socrates, which resonated with me instantly: <span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><i style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality.”</i></span></div>
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2. <b>Friendships </b>have incredible power. Those who believe in you when you yourself don't, those who "make the effort" to help ease things for you, they're the ones to hug tight!<br />
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1. I'm a lot more confident now, thanks to the tough situations I faced this year. I also met new people and it was fantastic!</div>
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2. I realised that hard work pays. You just have to stay cool, calm and confident, and believe you're going to win. That way, even if you lose, you still feel like a winner--rejuvenated and energized to start all over again or to look for alternatives, <i>both </i>of which are equally important.</div>
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4. Sometimes you are just not the same you as before. It can be a painful transition, knowing you don't feel like doing the things you liked doing, but at some point of time comes the ultimate relief--an inner acceptance of things that doesn't burden you with guilt or regret. It's pure evolution when you look at life from the other end of the kaleidoscope and find the view just as mesmerizing.</div>
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That's a lot about 2016 (not by my standards, and you know it. But I gotta think about you too), so let's move on to the much-sought-after things in <b><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: x-large;">2017</span></b>! Woohoo!</div>
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#1: The <b>new job</b>! I'm nervous and excited and it feels like I'm being given a second life. Thank you, dear God. I'll make you proud.</div>
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#2: My girl-best <b>friend's wedding</b>!!!! OMG I never before knew weddings could be so exciting! #funahead<br />
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#3: Becoming a kickass <b>book blogger</b> (I'll be here too, my pet). I will admit--I sucked at blogging in 2016 and I'm not even using the but-my-brain-was-dead-with-other-things excuse. I didn't even read 50 books (I think. I need to check Goodreads right away! Ohman. I read 39 books, the lowest in five years! I know, I know. I had decided not to go with numbers but you can't help taking a peek every month or so, especially when you have been overachieving your goals for years. I'm gonna make up for it this year. I mean, I MISS BOOKS! It's weird--the one whole year I worked in publishing, I read the least number of books. #thissucks) </div>
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Anyway, this means I'm gonna be on the lookout for the latest books AND find my way to them AND devour them like a hungry bookworm AND post amazing reviews on my blog<b><a href="http://bookwormreviews9.blogspot.in/" target="_blank"> here</a></b> (Subscribe if you haven't. I promise you won't regret it.) I might get into <b>bookstagram </b>too. You never know. (But you'll know if I do, because if you read this, you're bound to follow my bookstagram (which is instagramming about books)). Naturally I'll be into <b>photography </b>as well.</div>
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#4: Read more (as mentioned in #3) and<b> read DIVERSE</b>. Ugh, just read!!! I don't even like myself when I haven't read enough.</div>
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#5: <b>Learn other language(s)</b>: Includes Punjabi (which I should have by this time), Spanish (which I should have remembered, having learned it for two years), French (just 'cuz I wanna. Also 'cuz I make insane goals).</div>
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#6: Learn about make-up and hairstyling: I'll do this at a very basic level, but I'll do it! Why? (And YOU, the friend, stop looking at me like that.) Because I'm a girl and a grown-up and I still don't know about these two essential things. I mean, why look average when you can look excellent?</div>
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#7: <b>Don't waste time</b> thinking about or <b>because of people</b>. Just do your own thing because your time is <i>the </i>most important thing--why not spend it in a useful activity?</div>
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#8: Keep the phone/computer away before bedtime. It's not only harmful but I haven't read a book at bedtime the ENTIRE year because of these two addictions. In fact, this reminds me, I haven't recharged my poor Kindle for two whole months! #stopthisatrocitynow<br />
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#9: <b>Say it.</b> A lot of things go unspoken just because I'm confused about the other person's mindset (which is a rarity, because generally I know it by instinct, so people who confuse me also interest me greatly!). Therefore, to save myself the pain of overthinking, I will just be upfront and ask what the matter is! </div>
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#10: Be chill.<b> Enjoy life</b>. Spend time with friends. Laugh more often (this is a <i>need </i>because I've had people tell me I don't smile enough and it feels so weird because... I don't know. I'm happy but it doesn't show on my face for some reason? Of course people aren't like people at home who can crack me up in a second, and <i>they </i>know my laugh is no less than a full-blown guffaw.) Anyway, laugh when someone cracks a joke. :P</div>
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#11: <b>Learn more about Sikhism </b>and teach you peoples about it too. I've done some reading and listening in 2016 and it has made me feel ever so lucky to have been born in this community, and it inspires me to live up to the name and do what we're supposed to do as Sikhs (be charitable, be kind, be truthful, be strong and fight for rights, to begin with). Also, today celebrates 350th birth anniversary of the tenth guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji, also founder of the Khalsa and the one who instructed Sikhs to follow the Guru Granth Sahib Ji as the Guru to know about God and ways to live life. A powerful warrior and spiritual leader, Guru Gobind Singh Ji inspires us even today. I'd recommend this 43 minute documentary on his life: <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8yyYxdacLk" target="_blank">Life of Guru Gobind Singh Ji</a>.</b></div>
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That's a lot to remember for a year, so I'll stop at that. I'm just happy 2016 is over and the new year comes with new promises and I am in a mindset to enjoy it, which is so awesome. Yay! How did 2016 treat you guys? Any resolutions for 2017?<br />
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What? Did you really BELIEVE I had gone for good? Just because I haven’t
blogged here for months and months? C’mon. A girl can be in a PHASE. It’s
normal in this abysmal, intensely stressful time that we’re living in. You
should, in fact, be consoling ME. I’ve missed recording practically half a year
of my life! Not that I’d forget it easily (what a roller-coaster!), but still.
What if I suffer from a weird case of memory loss? Anything is possible. I live
in the world’s most polluted city (I think), where pollution isn’t just in the
air but also in people’s MINDS. It takes a lot just to be alive, so you better
be thankful that I’m HERE. I’ll get back to being regular very soon, before the
year ends, I promise! Till then, this is a quickie update on life and random
blah, blah. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>#1. A quintessential holiday!</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After years
and years and years, we (my family) FINALLY decided to make a trip to the
beauuutifuuullll Australia! *shrieks and bounces with excitement, even though
the holiday got over months ago* (Again, it’s normal to feel so.) We spent a
good 15 days frolicking around Queensland (mostly in Brisbane and Gold Coast)
and was it fun or whaaat??? </span></span></div>
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</span></span><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%; color: #351c75;">~Things that were FUN~</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SO MANY
EXPERIENCES! </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a. Living in
a countryside house = such low levels of traffic as never seen before!</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">b. Witnessing
EVERYONE following traffic rules. Flawless, freakishly awesome traffic rules.
That’s also what makes it possible for people to drive sports cars. Oh, also
riding in a sports car! </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">c. Ferrying
around in a ferry that acts as public transport (!!!) on the Brisbane river
right in the middle of the city!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s6_wr8KrzJg/WD3B7Z0oWSI/AAAAAAAAQOw/9XxF4OULwpkj_1C-yJED5eEh-V6TE8-owCLcB/s1600/P1190834.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s6_wr8KrzJg/WD3B7Z0oWSI/AAAAAAAAQOw/9XxF4OULwpkj_1C-yJED5eEh-V6TE8-owCLcB/s320/P1190834.JPG" width="320" /></a></span></span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d. Walking
through a rainforest, tripping over old, HUGE, gnarled roots (that was just me,
though), climbing to the very top of a tree-top walk (just me, too! I am
DARING), and discovering you are scared of rope bridges (perhaps not as daring
as you thought) because no matter how fabulous you are, <i>you still can’t fly!
</i>(I am logical.) </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">e. Feeding
sharp-clawed, multi-coloured parrots (that’s how they come there) on your palm
and watching with amazement how they manage to eat the insides of the seeds and
leave the shells in your hand. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">f. Taking a
membership of a casino the very first day of arrival (HAHAHA!) and not going
there a second time (because, no time, not because it wasn’t awesome).</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">g. Having
barbeque picnics everywhere!! There are electric, <i>fully-functional </i>barbeques
and picnic tables <i>everywhere </i>you see. Australia understands that people
need food and fun in life! </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">h. Getting a
kookaburra to pose for you, for free! I didn’t imagine that when we would be
going for a real, old-style barbeque-using-wood picnic, we would actually spot
a kookaburra. I could barely keep my camera straight, I was SO excited. The
bird obliged (I guess he/she was used to it?) and I clicked away.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">i. Also
feeding birds (despite uncle’s warnings) with your hands. Then leaving a pot of
water on the gone-out-but-still-hot barbeque grill (to be later made into <i style="font-family: inherit;">chai. </i>We Indians.
*shakes head*) AND all our stuff (just like that!) while going for a trail
walk, and half the time my mind recuperating from the shock of having left all
our belongings in the open (despite uncle’s reassurances). And then coming back
to find it all ransacked by CROWS.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">j. Playing
with a Frisbee after all these years, in the middle of the woods, with
wallabies munching grass nearby. Trying to feed wallabies but failing.</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Come to me! Come! (They didn't :/)</span></span></span></td></tr>
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all. The trip point was supposed to be ONE point, for God’s sake!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">m. Having
your feet slowly sink in the soft sand as water gushes over them… feeling like
you’re standing at the edge of the Pacific Ocean and feeling a nice kind of
dizzy with waves gradually coming up to you! And then feeling your heart drop
for a mini-second as the wave rushes back, and you begin to slip as the sand
slides from beneath your feet (and you realize you can’t swim!). OMG The Gold
Coast beach!!! It was also the first proper beach of my life and it was <i>gorgeous!
</i>It’s considered one of the cleanest beaches, and so true! There wasn’t a
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">n. Watching the sun’s golden glow rise in the sky as you
stand in the water, its overpowering pull making you feel warm and dizzy again.
Also watching surfer dudes surfing (what else?) and barely keeping from crying
out loud as they just flop in the water sometimes… right in the SEA! Don’t
people love their lives or what? Don’t they know that surfer dudes are a rare species?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">o. Walking on a high sea bed to reach an
island and collecting lovely shells (despite G’s warnings that they might
contain a dragon or something. Ha, I lied. He used the words ‘snail’ and
‘insect’ but aren’t they the same? Cute and pet-worthy?). In any case, I did
what I did because I had to (where else would I be found collecting shells in
my life?), and it was great fun! We also saw <i style="font-family: inherit;">tiny </i>soldier crabs!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">p. Insisting
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to the water as possible, not caring that it jutted into the sea and had sharks
(uncle said). Finding G trailing along because of course he wanted to ensure I
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</i>down the slope! My heart had only just begun to beat when it happened AGAIN
in another ride. ALSO. Staring open-mouthed at penguins (wheee!), a sea lion,
DOLPHINS(!!), a polar bear, sharks, sting rays, loads of fish, star fish, sea
urchin and a KRAKEN!! (Okay, that one was mechanical, but <i>still! </i>It
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #351c75;">~Things
that were SHOCKING~</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1.
Everywhere is so CLEAN. How can a place <i>not </i> have hideous spit-and-<i>paan</i>
stains at least <i>somewhere</i>?? Not even a TINY bit of waste paper or
wrapper on the roads? I must admit, I was secretly GLOWING. Being such a sucker
for throwing-waste-in-the-dustbins, I adored feeling “at home” looking at
people throwing things where they belong rather than having them staring at me
when I carry waste in my arms till I reach a dustbin. Seriously. At one
point (while drooling at a WB characters’ parade) I didn’t even realize I was
leaning against an actual dustbin. I’d become so attached to them.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Strangers
smile at you AND IT ISN’T WEIRD! People are generally nice to each other. They
make conversations with strangers who are having a picnic by the beach, on top
of a hill, or even next to a cemetery (the strangers being us, and yes we did
that!). They wish you a nice day even when you leave their shop without buying
anything (and they also wouldn’t attach themselves to you like leeches until
you either bought something or left in disgust. Am I making too many indirect
comparisons???) This is why travelling is important. It makes you believe that
what you know about people is but a minuscule fraction of humanity.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. There are
so many <i>clean </i>public restrooms, you actually won’t have to worry about
nature’s calls when you’re out. In fact, you might even welcome them! I can
rant and compare this one at least, as it is so <i>obvious </i>we don’t have
even a teeny weeny portion of such amenities here. But no seriously, you can
absolutely go ANYWHERE, including JUNGLES and you’ll find functional, clean
restrooms so you can enjoy the mesmerizing beauty of the place without such
interruptions (which turn into emergencies where I live).</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Basically,
it was beyond awesome.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>*sigh* I had
to write more points. I’ll just sum them up below.</i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <b><span>#2: Making major career decisions</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In short,
feeling like a wreck for months and months and turning into a monster bred in
captivity because the job uncertainty was SO STRONG. UGH. I hate when stupid
things bring me down. But I, like the full-blown warrior that I am, with the
support of my loyal cadets (okay, BECAUSE of the cadets), FOUGHT and WON.
Yoohoo! I don’t know if what’s happened is good or bad. It definitely seems <i>awesome
</i>as of now. Which means it must be awesome. With the new year, I’ll be in a
MBA-kind of job rather than working as an editor for children’s books (what a
change!) but <i>I am delighted about it. </i>Call me a hypocrite, like I care.
People change. This is proof. (But I will keep doing editing projects, if I get
any. I totally should, because I have experience and I KNOW stuff.)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div align="center" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span>#3: Reading books</span></b></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Obviously.
I’ve mastered the art of reading so that you’d find me reading books even when
I’m dead. My ghost will be by my bookshelf or in one of the awesome libraries
of the world where I hadn’t been while alive. Some of the books I’ve devoured
this year:</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a. Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn (It sucked)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">b. <a href="http://bookwormreviews9.blogspot.in/2016/10/review-city-of-bones-by-cassandra-clare.html" target="_blank">City of Bones</a>, City of Ashes and City
of Glass by Cassandra Clare (The series is called The Mortal Instruments and I
hadn’t read it while it was receiving attention from the world. It is GOOD, but
so emotionally draining that I might take a break before jumping into the rest
of the series.)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">c. Six books
from the Dork Diaries series by Rachel Renee Russell (Just to relive teen
years. These were breezing, time-pass reads. Not that great.)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">d. The Lord
of the Rings series (wayyyyyy more awesome in books. The movies are GHASTLY.)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">e. <a href="http://bookwormreviews9.blogspot.in/2016/09/book-talk-jurassic-park-and-lost-world.html" target="_blank">Jurassic Park and The Lost World</a> by
Michael Crichton (You will never regret the books. WAY more scary than the
boom-bam movies. Dinosaurs don’t just SLAM into view. They SNEAK. No points for
guessing which is more terrorizing.)</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">f. Some <a href="http://bookwormreviews9.blogspot.in/2016/10/peril-at-end-house-and-murder-of-roger.html" target="_blank">Hercule Poirot mysteries</a> by Agatha
Christie (and discovering a fondness for ‘method’ and armchair detectives.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">g. Many
more. Go check my <a href="http://bookwormreviews9.blogspot.in/" target="_blank">book blog </a>or Goodreads for details. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This was
supposed to be a tiny post just to mention that I’d be back soon. I have WORK
still! See y’all soon!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PS- Blogger
changed its look while I was gone! I need to exploreeeee. </span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Book Suggestion Seeker</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you have an hour to kill in the Metro, and if you're me, you would prefer
to spend a good part of it doing something useful—reading, planning your to-do
list, getting work done. Recently, my target job for Metro time included
reading and reviewing a book called Emotional Rescue by Dgozchen Ponlop (you
can find the review <a href="http://bookwormreviews9.blogspot.com/2016/04/emotional-rescue-by-dzogchen-ponlop_17.html" target="_blank">here</a>. If you'd care to know, I managed to write 90% of the
review using my phone. I'm getting awesomer at this).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was done with reading, and had nothing else to read, so when I sat down
for the evening journey back home, I thought I'd go through the book again and
jot down points to write in the review. While I was doing so, I thought the
girl sitting next to me was reading whatever I was writing down, so I did that
shuffling thing—moving from the writing page to a random reading page, to and
fro in quick succession, so that her attention would be diverted. It's not that
I don't want anyone else to read what I'm doing, but it just freezes my brain
and I can't get another word out if I know someone's looking. Anyway, whatever
I did had no effect on her, so I began to skim read the book instead, making
points in my mind.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A few minutes later, the girl began to speak to me. She asked what was in
the book. Damn! That obviously got me talking fast and quick. She was such an
amazing listener--totally interested in whatever I told her, listening with
rapt attention, never breaking eye contact. Just the sort of listener you need
when you have to talk about books. Soon enough she started asking questions and
sharing her problems—how she feels somewhat depressed sometimes and gets swayed
by emotions, etc. I was supposed to offer solutions based on what I'd read in
Emotional Rescue.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I did whatever I could, but that only got her more interested. Finally, in a
voice full of lament, she said, "Oh, where are you getting down?"
When I answered, she replied, "Oh, no... I'm getting down at the next
station! It was nice to listen to you. Where do you get these books from? Can
we get them from the metro station kiosks?" </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Um... you'll only get the popular ones there..." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"What about this one?" </span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"This has not yet been released. You can give me your email id. I'll
write to you about it."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Okay... and give me your number too!"</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Err... hey! That's your station!" I said, shoving her off the
seat. The doors were opening, for heaven's sake!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes! Take my number please!" she said. Her sense of urgency was contagious.
I didn't even pause to consider, and whipped out my phone. Then I realized how
it was so slow that she might as well reach my station before the phone would
get unlocked. Thankfully I had a pencil in my hand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Here, write your number," I said, flipping to the last page of
the book. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She scrawled her number, said thanks, and dashed out. Just in time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It took me a week to write to her, and even then I was somewhat at a loss. I
rarely read self-help and philosophy, and I honestly don't yet believe in the
heavily marketed books in those genres. But they must have something that helps
people, or else why would they be so popular? I ended up giving some
recommendations based on a mix of what I'd read and liked, and what I thought
would be good based on their reviews. A couple of short email conversations,
and quite a good number of 'hi's in the metro later (because we recognized each
other now), the emotional book saga is at a pause. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But I'm always there ;)</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scoot gets a new parking place!</span></span></b></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is not exactly a metro story, but it is related to metro parking space,
so I'm including it. </span></span></i><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
When I first saw the big Pantaloons and Croma opening and functioning under the
newly-constructed multi-level parking for which I had been waiting for years
and which hadn't been opened to us yet, I had a hard time suppressing the urge
to shout foul and rain kicks and fists on someone I could blame the problem.
Here I was, hassled every day because they stole the good parking space and
spent years constructing that new parking, only to have it made into a mall?
Are people mad or what? (Yes, they are)</span></span>
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A few days later, I had to quickly find a dress. Working six days a week meant
I did not have time to search a lot of places. Then my awesome (and ever so
practical and sound-minded) friend P suggested a solution. "Look for a
dress in the new Shopper's Stop at that mall. It's the closest to your place,
and it's bound to have something you're looking for."</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Shopper's Stop? That place has a Shopper's Stop? Since when?"</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Uh... it's been around for a while." (and this girl lives miles
and miles away!)</span></span></div>
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</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So we made our first journey to this place—I, G and mom—and made some useful
discoveries. </span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
The parking was huge, albeit a bit scary. But I was pretty much annoyed. Why
was I having to look for parking spaces for my beloved Scoot when this mountain
had taken our old space and was filling up with shoppers' cars!? A parking
attendant came our way.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
"Why isn't this a metro parking?" I asked.<br />
"Huh?"<br />
"Wasn't this supposed to be built as DMRC parking space for metro travellers?"<br />
"But you can park your car here just as well," he said.<br />
It was my turn to feel stumped. "You can? Two-wheelers too?"<br />
"Of course. Many people do."</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
Was it my fault, though? No one ever talks about parking spaces. There was no
information that the parking was available once more. However, it is owned by
the mall, not DMRC. Not that it makes any difference to the commuters (because
the rates are the same). </span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
The next day, full of enthusiasm, I left home a few minutes early to make time
for acclimatizing myself with the new parking space. As soon as I rode up the
short slope, I was stopped by two guards. They wanted to check Scoot's boot,
probably for the dead body of a cat (which is the most it could carry). I
hopped off Scoot and showed them that I had no blood on my hands yet. They let
me go. After a long path with bumpy speed-breakers at short intervals, there
was an automatic ticket-wielding machine (which later became my time-watching-and-guessing-whether-or-not-I'll-be-late-that-day
machine). After that, I was directed to a cut separate from the one we had
taken the last time. </span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
Riding a two-wheeler, the curved slopes were harder to manoeuvre. Scoot took me
down, down, down, slowly. I passed one level but it was closed, and Scoot
didn't slow down and it seemed to take forever to circle all the way two floors
down. It was with relief that I saw a parking attendant waving at me. Finally,
there were more scooters and bikes. Signs of life! In my newfound happiness, I
parked wherever the attendant said. Finally, Scoot had a place to feel safe in
while I was gone. No longer did it have to stay in the hot sun or endure
passersby on its comfortable seat. It could be with its own clan for most of
day. Yay!</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
I was so excited that I forgot to pick the parking slip from Scoot. Thankfully
I realized it halfway to the elevators, and went back and got it. Now, and this
is weird and 'only-in-India'ish, there were no stairs. Only elevators. I am
scared of elevators. I would always take the stairs whenever possible. It took
five minutes more than usual to reach my platform with the new parking space.
Not bad. Except that I don't even have the capability (or the motivation) to
reach soon every day, so sometimes I use the new place (I feel good on those
days), sometimes I get late for work, and sometimes when I've been late enough,
Scoot has to stay in the sun again.</span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">***</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm bored. Hopelessly bored. My head aches, my arm aches, my leg aches and
so does my heart. Sometimes I feel so lost and oh so hopeless. What am I ever
going to do in life? I need a good job. No, an "easier" job. The one
I have is good, but not easy to manage. I need time for personal work, because
I'm never satisfied with spending my days only working for someone. I want to
work for myself, too. And it gets so difficult sometimes. I need a break. And
I'm going to get one s soon. More about it later. I only hope it works well. </span></span></div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-44313053927841304542016-05-07T12:12:00.001+05:302016-05-07T12:44:46.193+05:30Metro Diaries #8: The newest stories, Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I thought I was done with stories from, and related to, the metro train in Delhi. I'm seriously so trusting (and thus, such a misfit in this ever-increasing-stupid-mindless-selfish-society, but that's a story for another day). There are just thousands and thousands of people shuffling on and off from the Metro every day, so that it's quite obvious you would come across an incident some time. I'm sharin<b>g</b> two (of four) of the latest metro-related updates today. The other two will follow soon. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I'm a light sleeper, except on some nights when I've had a super-exhausting day in both body and mind (mostly mind), and even in those rare times I wake up feeling guilty and all-wrong. How could I have slept through without knowing when G got sick and Mum gave him medicines? What if I'm the only one with someone who got sick in the night and isn't able to speak and I'm sleeping soundly!? Or worse, what if there's an earthquake and I'm sleeping without feeling it? You get the point: I'm not happy being a heavy sleeper. Strangely, I never thought much about other people sleeping light or heavy, or caring about it, or even observing it. Until that day in the metro.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The station I get down to reach office is one at the end of a line, so that if you don't deboard, you can go back the same line. I got up from my seat about half a minute before the train was to stop, gave a cursory glance around the nearly-empty coach, and saw a girl in a corner seat, her head angled back against the train wall. Her eyes were closed and her mouth open. She was asleep. The train rocked a little as it shifted tracks, it shuddered, people shuffled to the doors, but the sleeping girl did not wake up. I decided to shake her awake if she wasn't up even when the train stop<span style="font-family: inherit;">ped</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The train stopped and she was still asleep. I went to her and gently placed a hand on her arm so as not to alarm her, and said, "Excuse me." I admit, I was even softer than I had expected. Not even a sharp cat would have woken up with it. I tried again, much more enthusiastically because the doors had opened. "Excuse me, excuse me, excuse me!" With each "excuse me" I hardened my grip and shook her more and more, and with each try, my heartbeat rose and anxiety set in. People from the platform had begun to enter. If I wasn't quick, we would be locked inside. I tried again, shaking her by the arms and the shoulders, trying not to look at her open-mouthed state of Kumbharaness. Suddenly, a wave of something deep passed through me. I felt my heart drop to the bottom of my stomach. My grip on her loosened for a moment, and I clutched the metal bar instead. Horrific thoughts washed through my (now proven, over-imaginative) mind. The moment passed just as soon as it had come, and with new vigour, I shook her again, dropping all politeness. It seemed to work.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With a gasp, her mouth shut close, her eyes opened, and her head left its headrest, all at once. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Come on, it's the last station," I said to her. It was all I could do to not take her hand and quickly lead her out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"This is the last station!" I said, using more animation than words. I wasn't sure she could understand me. She made to get up, and I finally left the coach. But that's not the end of the story. The good Samaritan in me stopped me from going further, and I turned around to look. She was walking out of the doors, clutching the bars for support. Her footsteps were uneven. I went back to her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She only looked around with a confused expression. She did not answer my question.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Are you all right?" I repeated. "Where did you have to get down?" By then, it was clear that she was lost. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Huh? Where have I come?" she said. Her eyes were bloodshot. I wondered how much time it would take her to be fully awake (and also how she would even manage office that day). I told her the name of the station and asked her again where she was supposed to get off. She named a station we had left about fifteen minutes ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"You can get in this same train. It will go back," I said, tempted to push her inside the still-open doors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Really?" she said, which made me wonder where her consciousness really was. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Yes, yes... go quickly."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She shuffled towards the doors, paused a moment, and then turned to walk towards the other end of the train. (Possibly because, even in her disturbed state of mind, she was conscious of the fact that the coach was no longer women-only). But by that time I was quite late for work, so I left her to it. She was, at least, walking straight all by herself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By now I have pretty much realized that what I have in my mind is hardly ever to be seen in reality. I actually sometimes believe that people would behave with manners and courtesy because I am a total stranger to them, and also because I'm not even saying anything to anybody. But I keep forgetting our awesome culture of brotherhood, which, apart from making people think they have rights to eavesdrop, look into other's messages, and stare shamelessly, also gives them this strange illusion that everyone else is their close relative, someone who could be asked to do things without thinking whether or not they want to. And sometimes those requests are just ridiculous. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was an over-stuffed train, and I was feeling lucky that I had a seat (about the only positive thing about the location of my office). It's a different matter that I was being squeezed on both sides because people believe in the two-people-per-seat concept rather than how it should be. I tried flipping the pages of my book using only my fingers, because I could not move my arms. The ladies/women/girls on both sides of me were busy with their cell phones. My bag was somewhere near my feet, and my knees were being crushed by women standing stuck to the seats. There really was not an inch of breathing space. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">From a station, some more women somehow squeezed in--which was accompanied by the oohs-and-aahs-and-ouchs of those inside--and managed to come near where I was sitting (which was in the middle of two doors, not even a corner). I could not see them, but I heard a loud woman speaking to her daughter-in-law (or maybe the crowd in general), about making space and adjusting a little boy. Inch by inch people moved, right in front of me, making space for a boy of about three, pushed by his grandmother. He stood in front of me. I could not avoid looking up. <span style="font-family: inherit;">The grandmother </span>asked us to make space for the boy. <br /><br />My first and foremost thought was, "where?" And then since no one was getting up, with an audible sigh I slowly closed my book, and moved to stand up, wondering how on Earth would I get space to even stand. "No, no... keep sitting," said the grandmother. "Only make him sit with you." As was obvious, there was no possibility of even a three-year-old being 'adjusted', so I had to be the inevitable volunteer. I took the kid in my lap.<br /><br />It would have been all right had I been left alone after that, but one, even if a kid looks small, he will be HEAVY, especially when he is asleep. Because he was so drowsy even when standing, that he shut his eyes and went to sleep as soon as I took him. And two, <span style="font-family: inherit;">t</span>he others seemed to find this cute, so they simply sat staring at us, while I tried to keep a hold on my stuff, which I ultimately had to hand over to the girl next to me. For the next quarter of an hour, I shifted however possible to adjust with the kid's lolling head (which kept dropping to one side).<br /><br />I'm glad it lasted only that much time. No wonder it was unexpected and funny, and I'm wondering how and why such things keep happening with me! I have two more stories to share, which I'll write and post as soon as I can. :) I also have a really cool update, which will also wait until the next post! Keep reading!</span></span></div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-33333972400121952752016-04-30T16:43:00.001+05:302016-04-30T16:43:52.332+05:30#18: You're a star!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--tR56uQCtcw/VwoOJphPROI/AAAAAAAAP8k/kLCDa-w2lgMJZY6W7e_r9LFZLxsYK7XKQCKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--tR56uQCtcw/VwoOJphPROI/AAAAAAAAP8k/kLCDa-w2lgMJZY6W7e_r9LFZLxsYK7XKQCKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>It was a beautiful light-show<br />That we saw, when you were born.<br /><br />Your mother looked at you and thought,<br />"This will be brighter than the brightest morn."<br /><br />You began to grow, living your life<br />With a lot of love and care,<br /><br />Though sometimes with glitches (as is natural),<br />Which made you act like you shouldn't have dared.<br /><br />But know, sweet, little star, <br />That it is all right,<br /><br />For stars to face phases, and<br />Be dull rather than being bright.<br /><br />Stars may stray their paths,<br />They might sometimes oscillate,<br /><br />But not necessarily only when they're out of shape and order,<br />Also when other stars and particles lead them to deviate.<br /><br />You must know, sweet, little star,<br />That these phases can be short or long,<br /><br />They can vary in intensity too,<br />But you can always turn it into a song (even a sad one).<br /><br />You must also know, that you have responsibilities<br />From which you must never escape,<br /><br />For they will ensure your energy and power<br />Are never put to waste.<br /><br />If you ever feel, the other stars in the constellation,<br />Are picking and prodding, and you don't like the touch,<br /><br />Know that it is because they won't see you troubled,<br />In any way in the future, because they love you too much.<br /><br />Have you seen how their eyes shine,<br />With love and assurance when they see you?<br /><br />Even if you're just one, and think yourself unimportant,<br />Know that this constellation would not be one without you.</i><br /></span></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A created, special star. :)<br />PS- Please don't copy this picture.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yay! This completes my NaPoWriMo,
a whole month of poem-making. Apart from the obvious realization (how it was
wonderful to write them), I found out how time flies! It seems like I accepted
this friend's challenge for poetry only last week or so. </span></span></div>
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Frankly though, it was fun, and it was rewarding. For a person who had been
craving to write something but couldn't, this served the purpose, and it also
made me happy. I didn't really stick to the plan: I don't have thirty poems,
but I'm oh-so-happy with whatever I managed to write. :D Perhaps some day when
I'm bored or inspired, I will end up writing and posting another poem. ^_^</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As to the challenge, I declare
both of us as winners. I wrote magnificently on some days, while the competitor
did so too. Some days we both messed up. In the end, we did put an effort, and
that makes us winners. :D YAY!</span></span></div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-40208066505972231082016-04-27T17:20:00.004+05:302016-04-27T17:22:17.756+05:30#17: No regrets? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--tR56uQCtcw/VwoOJphPROI/AAAAAAAAP8k/kLCDa-w2lgMJZY6W7e_r9LFZLxsYK7XKQCKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--tR56uQCtcw/VwoOJphPROI/AAAAAAAAP8k/kLCDa-w2lgMJZY6W7e_r9LFZLxsYK7XKQCKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><i>What does it mean,<br />To live life with no regrets?<br /><br />Is it, to do all the things you think of doing, or think you want to do,<br />Making someone who doesn't have your spirit<br />(but is just as human and normal), <br />Feel spiritless, and think the idea radical?<br /><br />Is it, to show the others, that you have done<br />All you could; you have made mistakes<br />You're proud of... So what if someone else<br />Has been hurt? An action you think you won't regret<br />Is all it takes.<br /><br />But tell me, wouldn't it be terrifying to live through,<br />Each thing you thought you wanted to do, <br />In the name of 'no regrets'? <br /><br />Tell me, what exactly would you accomplish?<br />A sense of liberation from 'what-ifs', you say,<br />And I understand that. I would feel it too. <br />I would want to feel it. <br /><br />But tell me, do you ever consider if you would really<br />Feel not regretful? Are you sure you wouldn't? For anything at all?<br />Wouldn't you, maybe, think, "I tried... but perhaps I shouldn't have"?<br /><br />I would. Even though I would want to do certain things, <br />Some that I crave for, some that make me look cool, while some on whims,</i><i><i> </i></i><br />
<i><i>I would if I know it wouldn't hurt, </i></i><br />
<i><i>I would if it would make someone (especially me) happy,</i></i><br />
<i><i>I would do everything thinking it would always be a lesson,</i></i><br />
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<i>Still, I would not do most of them in the name of 'no regrets'.</i><br />
<i><i><i>I would first make sure I understand all that's at stake.</i></i></i><br />
<i><i><i> </i></i><br />Because even if I don't regret, I would feel awful because of their consequence(s),<br />And living happily is more important than no regrets,<br />And no, they are sometimes, for some people, not mutually exhaustive.<br />If you want to live a life of no regrets, first prepare yourself for it.</i><br />
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You would first analyse the risks, right? Great. Go ahead! :D<br />
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These days I look forward to writing something for the day, and most often it is a random thought, among the many, that gets picked up just as randomly as it came. Somewhat bored at work, I doodled 'no regrets' in my notepad, and I have no idea where it came from. Then in the next few minutes, draft 1 of this piece above was born, converted into draft 2 during the next boredom break! <br />
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I'm not sure if I can call these pieces poems anymore. Weren't they all supposed to rhyme at least somewhere? I'm currently reading a book on poetry called No Matter The Wreckage by Sarah Kay, and I suppose my subconscious is pretty much influenced! It doesn't take into account whether or not I'm liking the writing style. </div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-70505969738904542016-04-26T22:44:00.000+05:302016-04-26T22:44:33.931+05:30#16: Food<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-24072240701999479152016-04-25T17:25:00.000+05:302016-04-25T20:47:40.129+05:30#15: The Cookie and The Bun<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I guess the ending does look like an ending, so I won't stretch it. I originally thought I'd make a hungry human eat them both. I guess my subconscious likes happy endings!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A question for readers: Who do you think this story is about? The bun or the cookie? Let it be fun to think of either of the two. "Both" would be a common answer.</span></div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-11008878950449204982016-04-23T23:17:00.000+05:302016-04-23T23:20:23.476+05:30#14: City Birds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fTSR730snK8/VwVCszNOGPI/AAAAAAAAP78/V9ScnBrPREwiv5CcxOxdg4Oq_emuRDbUQCKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fTSR730snK8/VwVCszNOGPI/AAAAAAAAP78/V9ScnBrPREwiv5CcxOxdg4Oq_emuRDbUQCKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">City birds were not always city birds, we made them so,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Creating trees and jungles of concrete and wires, leaving them nowhere to go.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">City birds then, began hovering over these, in search of food and shelter, </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Because fruits and seeds and insects in abundance, they did not get to eat.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">City birds sing songs purer than any,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Lay eggs precious, rare, and a curiosity.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>City birds know not where to fly--high or low,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>They may die entangled in a tower crane or a wire mesh down below.</i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>City birds are sought by the heartbroken, the nature-hungry,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Photographers, lovers; they are of a species endangered, but we think them as free.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>City birds create that heart-warming, uplifting melody,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Sometimes in the early morning hours, heard by ones who are lucky.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>City birds get fewer in number, when once we saw them in many colours,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Now we find mostly blacks and greys, and very rarely a red, blue, yellow blur. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>City birds were not always city birds,</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Once, they were simply, exclusively, just birds.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Ta-da! Not a very flattering poem. You know, I'm really enjoying this NaPoWriMo. Not only do I look forward to the poem of the day, but when and after I write, I know whether what I have written is a good poem or a not-so-good poem. Or whether what I've written is a poem at all. These days, though, anything that's written in such stanzas is easily tagged as a poem, so I don't mind tagging mine along, but still. Yet, sometimes it is a complete surprise. What I had thought to be an okay poem turns out to be more liked and read. What do you think?</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/13-unseated.html" target="_blank">#13: The Unseated</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/12-acrostic.html" target="_blank">#12: Acrostic</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/11-step-by-step.html" target="_blank">#11: Step-by-step</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/10-inside-mind.html" target="_blank">#10: Inside a mind</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/9-lucky-thirteen.html" target="_blank">#9: Lucky Thirteen</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-lover-of-skies.html" target="_blank">#8: A lover of skies</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/7-things-i-like.html" target="_blank">#7: Things I like...</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/6-beautiful-forever.html" target="_blank">#6: A beautiful forever</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/5-i-choose.html" target="_blank">#5: I choose...</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/4-night-dreamer.html" target="_blank">#4: Night dreamer</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/3-exhaustion.html" target="_blank">#3: Exhaustion</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/2-forsaken-soul.html" target="_blank">#2: Forsaken soul</a></div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-24487522558368624592016-04-22T17:25:00.000+05:302016-04-23T23:49:10.133+05:30#13: The Unseated<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p17mS8OUAJE/VwAKfpgui6I/AAAAAAAAP6Q/R5SvOiQT0zMLDBYDLZfJMawWQDCKLJ5_gCKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p17mS8OUAJE/VwAKfpgui6I/AAAAAAAAP6Q/R5SvOiQT0zMLDBYDLZfJMawWQDCKLJ5_gCKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><i>So thoroughly is the idea of competition,</i><br />
<i>Ingrained in our minds, </i><br />
<i>That being one of the few unseated,</i><br />
<i>In a train, is a loss of a kind.</i><br />
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<i>Like you haven't been quick enough,</i><br />
<i>Or clever enough, or lucky enough to sit,</i><br />
<i>In an emptying coach when others get seated, </i><br />
<i>You're left wondering if you haven't done your bit.</i><br />
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<i>For you feel uneasy, and your breaths come sharp,</i><br />
<i>Because you're the standing spectacle, </i><br />
<i>To be glanced, or stared at, </i><br />
<i>As if you're a curious creature bearing tentacles.</i><br />
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<i>You try to soothe your mind, </i><br />
<i>You take deep breaths,</i><br />
<i>You fish out a book or your phone,</i><br />
<i>To type in a poem of such breadth.</i><br />
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<i>For whenever a seat was emptied,</i><br />
<i>An instinctive gesture you displayed,</i><br />
<i>Of making a move towards it, before it was</i><br />
<i>Taken by a quicker, cleverer, luckier person instead.</i><br />
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Read my earlier NaPoWriMo poems.</div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/2-forsaken-soul.html" target="_blank">#2: Forsaken soul</a></div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/3-exhaustion.html" target="_blank">#3: Exhaustion</a></div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/4-night-dreamer.html" target="_blank">#4: Night dreamer</a></div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/5-i-choose.html" target="_blank">#5: I choose...</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/6-beautiful-forever.html" target="_blank">#6: A beautiful forever</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/7-things-i-like.html" target="_blank">#7: Things I like...</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-lover-of-skies.html" target="_blank">#8: A lover of skies</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/9-lucky-thirteen.html" target="_blank">#9: Lucky Thirteen</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/10-inside-mind.html" target="_blank">#10: Inside a mind</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/11-step-by-step.html" target="_blank">#11: Step-by-step</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.com/2016/04/12-acrostic.html" target="_blank">#12: Acrostic</a><br />
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-33200980969458221852016-04-21T13:26:00.000+05:302016-04-21T13:27:42.789+05:30#12: Acrostic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w66pa6lF1DU/VwKdQXtH3eI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/QB0JwF8bokUipjfcUYhy0Bx-EDox0yqeACKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w66pa6lF1DU/VwKdQXtH3eI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/QB0JwF8bokUipjfcUYhy0Bx-EDox0yqeACKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><i>Little by little</i><br />
<i>Over highs and many lows, like</i><br />
<i>Violet daffodils and a blue rose</i><br />
<i>Emerged someone I didn't know, nor</i><br />
<i>Did you, my dears. For it was</i><br />
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LgVlgnzs0bU/URKTH5ZhUhI/AAAAAAAAF50/Mpssf660kqwJ4xic1rVBCYarlnjXy84bQCKgB/s1600/loneliness.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LgVlgnzs0bU/URKTH5ZhUhI/AAAAAAAAF50/Mpssf660kqwJ4xic1rVBCYarlnjXy84bQCKgB/s200/loneliness.jpg" width="170" /></a><i>One, born from having borne a</i><br />
<i>Number of hurts and fears.</i><br />
<i>Every time you assumed</i><br />
<i>She wouldn't mind staying behind,</i><br />
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<i>Having her belligerent requests,</i><br />
<i>Upturned a thousand times.</i><br />
<i>Raging silently, she goes on,</i><br />
<i>Thunder brewing inside her.</i><br />
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<i>Till the time you act so</i><br />
<i>Hideous, it hurts to look at your face, but still you</i><br />
<i>End up cursing and blaming her,</i><br />
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<i>Moments after she strikes back unafraid.</i><br />
<i>Over reasoning and fairness you can ride,</i><br />
<i>Still she would be right, because</i><br />
<i>Though you are unapologetic for your words, she knows it is only your ego and pride.</i><br />
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An acrostic is a form of poem where (usually) the first letter of each
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w66pa6lF1DU/VwKdQXtH3eI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/QB0JwF8bokUipjfcUYhy0Bx-EDox0yqeACKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w66pa6lF1DU/VwKdQXtH3eI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/QB0JwF8bokUipjfcUYhy0Bx-EDox0yqeACKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">When there's something that you want,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">And it sits out of reach, high on top,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Don't dismay, don't give up hope,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Don't settle lower, don't crave distractions to help you cope.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Instead:</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Open your eyes and look around,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Who is on the stairs, and who else is on the ground,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Who makes you feel, life is worthless and boring,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Who makes you wish, to spend time in working.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Wriggle out from the clutches, of those who pull you down,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Stretch out your hand for help, from those you see on the stairs,</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">For they often will take it, and pull you,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">One step away from the evil snares.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Oh, how sweet the air blows,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Even a little higher from the ground,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">You already feel lighter, and inspired,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">To work and do your best, and you never get tired.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">For you soon realize, you only need to be,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">On step one, then afraid you won't be.</span></i></span><br />
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<i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit;">You will only be eager, and optimistic,</i></span></i></span><div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">And humble and creative,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">You will get the will-power and energy, </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Let ill-will come, you know you could beat it.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">There will be trials, there will be anxieties,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">You will be tested, with utmost severity.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But something will have changed, you'll see,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">Even though it is sour, you'll find it sweet.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Before you know, time will pass,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>You'll see a different you, when you look into the glass.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Grinning back at you would be, your dream self,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Happy, peaceful, now ready to extend a hand for someone else's help.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And this is how you would climb,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The stairs to reach your dreams,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>You'll know you need only to take the first step,</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And the world will hush itself and see.</i></span><br />
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-47333336420794685632016-04-15T11:56:00.002+05:302016-04-15T11:56:29.727+05:30# 10: Inside a mind<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w66pa6lF1DU/VwKdQXtH3eI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/QB0JwF8bokUipjfcUYhy0Bx-EDox0yqeACKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w66pa6lF1DU/VwKdQXtH3eI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/QB0JwF8bokUipjfcUYhy0Bx-EDox0yqeACKgB/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><i>You wouldn't know, when you've lived, </i><br />
<i>A thousand times, inside a mind.</i><br />
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<i>Inside that mind, you are cherished, for the beauty of your eyes,</i><br />
<i>And the beauty of your smile, for the grace of your style, for how you can walk for miles.</i><br />
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<i>Inside that mind, your heart is of gold, your words full of wisdom,</i><br />
<i>And your deeds full of love; you are worthy of ruling a kingdom.</i><br />
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<i>Inside that mind, your work is pure, your will-power is inspiring,</i><br />
<i>And your thoughts are those, that could relieve the world, suffering.</i><br />
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<i>That mind is the one, inside which your cares and trials, are seen as personal enemies,</i><br />
<i>They have not just you, but the mind's owner, to fight them and bring them to their knees.</i><br />
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<i>For this is how beautifully you live inside a mind,</i><br />
<i>Not just once, but perhaps a thousand times.</i><br />
<i>Don't you wish you could realize,</i><br />
<i>You could live outside, just as you live inside a mind? </i><br />
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-82461531124537295392016-04-13T21:01:00.000+05:302016-04-13T21:11:43.799+05:30# 9: Lucky Thirteen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w66pa6lF1DU/VwKdQXtH3eI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/w7IrjtSiEaUDyupgzuIdyMttpPSVf19Eg/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w66pa6lF1DU/VwKdQXtH3eI/AAAAAAAAP7Q/w7IrjtSiEaUDyupgzuIdyMttpPSVf19Eg/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A day considered unlucky by many, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I wondered why it was so,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The sweetest person I knew, was born on this day many years ago.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">When you say your prayers, to keep ill-luck at bay,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I think I'm so lucky to have had her, and I think so till this day.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">She went away, but her memories stayed,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We said a 'Happy Birthday'; that's all the respect we paid.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But she never forgot us, she keeps her blessings pouring,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">A gush of good news and well-being, we have been receiving since morning.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">That is when we notice her again, thinking of us from up above,</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">We smile and we pray, feeling lucky to have the love of a soul fairer than a dove.</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Thank you, grandma! And a very happy birthday! I'll be going home, praying, and baking you a cake. Thank you for always blessing us! We all love you. </span><br />
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<a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/--tR56uQCtcw/VwoOJphPROI/AAAAAAAAP8g/AOH8Lo6f4RYQty-YbNYAGZil37j5KR-WA/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/--tR56uQCtcw/VwoOJphPROI/AAAAAAAAP8g/AOH8Lo6f4RYQty-YbNYAGZil37j5KR-WA/s1600/NaPoWriMo.png" /></a><i>Many sweet things make my heart flutter,</i><br />
<i>With happiness, fulfilment, love, and glee,</i><br />
<i>I feel I couldn't have asked for anything better,</i><br />
<i>You'll know it too when you see.</i><br />
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<i>Mother's hands; they work all the time,</i><br />
<i>They hold me with care and love infinite.</i><br />
<i>Father's voice; it's the resort of the broken heart and mind,</i><br />
<i>Always cheerful and uplifting, even after a hard daily grind.</i><br />
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<i>Grandmother's soft touch and patience; </i><br />
<i>It makes the world go slow,</i><br />
<i>Brother's ways of care and assurance;</i><br />
<i>They create a haven to go.</i><br />
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<i>There are more:</i><br />
<i>The love of a family, the love of true friends,</i><br />
<i>The ability to work, the comfort of a home, </i><br />
<i>The accepted apologies, the chances to make amends, </i><br />
<i>The soulful music, the feel of a heavy tome.</i><br />
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<i>The sound of vehicles, gates, footsteps, </i><br />
<i>To mark someone's return to home through a mist.</i><br />
<i>The moments in old photographs and diaries you once kept,</i><br />
<i>The loved one's gifts, like the bracelet on your wrist.</i><br />
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<i>The childhood drawings, the childhood toys,</i><br />
<i>The feigning sleep so Father would carry us inside,</i><br />
<i>The sound of loved ones' laughter, the heartfelt grin of boys,</i><br />
<i>The reading of prayers and texts as our guide.</i><br />
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<i>All these, and more, make me smile and glow,</i><br />
<i>For in their essence, and later their memory,</i><br />
<i>They remind us of what makes humans so,</i><br />
<i>Hoping these would bring happiness permanently. </i><br />
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<i>Childhood ends, you see life,</i><br />
<i>You see your forevers die out.</i><br />
<i>You wonder, can I ever have a beautiful one?</i><br />
<i>Your heart whispers yes, the world says no,</i><br />
<i>So deep in dreams you go. </i><br />
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<i>There you find your favourite forever,</i><br />
<i>You climb mountains, soar the skies,</i><br />
<i>Romp over dry leaves, slide in the snow,</i><br />
<i>Feel what you read, jump and laugh,</i><br />
<i>Dance in the rain, sing in halves.</i><br />
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<i>You read in sunshine, write what you may,</i><br />
<i>Watch butterflies, birds, mountains, rivers,</i><br />
<i>Watch people you love and people you like,</i><br />
<i>Watch aurora borealis lighting up the sky,</i><br />
<i>Watch your life feeling peaceful as time goes by.</i><br />
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<i>You learn to live, you live to love,</i><br />
<i>You love to live again,</i><br />
<i>You wish to share that beautiful forever, </i><br />
<i>With no one but the one you wish to claim,</i><br />
<i>The one that survived in all the forevers</i><br />
<i>That, in the world's recklessness, died.</i><br />
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Read my previous NaPoWriMo poems here:</div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/2-forsaken-soul.html" target="_blank">#2: Forsaken soul</a></div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/3-exhaustion.html" target="_blank">#3: Exhaustion</a></div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/4-night-dreamer.html" target="_blank">#4: Night dreamer</a></div>
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<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/5-i-choose.html" target="_blank">#5: I choose...</a></div>
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-88006461008215130412016-04-06T22:40:00.000+05:302016-04-07T22:27:54.168+05:30#5: I choose...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>What you did, or didn't,</i><br />
<i>How you made me feel, or didn't.</i><br />
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<i>I choose not to remember,</i><br />
<i>When you forgot what I said,</i><br />
<i>When you forgot what I felt.</i><br />
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<i>I choose not to remember,</i><br />
<i>All those times of facing</i><br />
<i>Mockery, bullying, loss of self-esteem.</i><br />
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<i>I choose not to remember,</i><br />
<i>The faces and names that caused hurt.</i><br />
<i>That is how I cope, you know.</i><br />
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<i>But I choose to remember,</i><br />
<i>How, for fleeting moments, you made me forget,</i><br />
<i>Finding solace and bliss in the ignorance.</i><br />
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Read my previous NaPoWriMo poems here:<br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/2-forsaken-soul.html" target="_blank">#2: Forsaken soul</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/3-exhaustion.html" target="_blank">#3: Exhaustion</a><br />
<a href="http://pages-ashna.blogspot.in/2016/04/4-night-dreamer.html" target="_blank">#4: Night dreamer</a><br />
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Ashna http://www.blogger.com/profile/12736664196142668981noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140302762732105480.post-46628393947282780862016-04-04T22:32:00.000+05:302016-04-04T22:44:41.866+05:30#4: Night dreamer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>The conscious awakens, threads of pictures,</i><br />
<i>scenes, moments, feelings, breaking through the surface.</i><br />
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<i>Eyes don't open, for threads begin running loose,</i><br />
<i>Already losing a dream or two,</i><br />
<i>Quickly recalling the ones that remain,</i><br />
<i>Thinking them over and over again.</i><br />
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<i>Hands reach out to the spiralled-together paper,</i><br />
<i>Tucked next to the pillow, pencil in place,</i><br />
<i>Readied in the night.</i><br />
<i>Hands scrawl memories, eyes open merely a shadow,</i><br />
<i>Mind rushing through dreams, about adventures, laughter and flowery meadows.</i><br />
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<i>Together the papers get thicker each year,</i><br />
<i>Bearing dreams of a collector,</i><br />
<i>With no sure purpose, other than to remember,</i><br />
<i>There's a world wholly created, a world of one's own,</i><br />
<i>That's as beautiful and ugly,</i><br />
<i>As the one the body owns.</i><br />
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This got thought-up while I was going through a notepad I had kept for a short while, intermittently, to record dreams. To say I was astonished would be an understatement. It was full of WEIRD scenarios with the most unusual characters (Batman's Joker, people from my junior school I haven't thought about in years, Dracula, people as vampires, friends conjuring up spells using wands--I managed Lumos!!--my childhood toy pygmypuff, Frankenstein's creature, to name a few). The best thing was the way I'd written them down. Good sentences that I might not have managed in wakefulness. Straight in lines, despite being in the dark, eyes nearly closed. Am I awesome or what!?<br />
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In case this is the first NaPoWriMo poem you're reading on this blog, check out the NaPoWriMo website <b><a href="http://www.napowrimo.net/" target="_blank">here</a></b> to know about it.<br />
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I'm also in a personal, very healthy competition with this friend (click <b><a href="http://blog.usamasulaiman.com/" target="_blank">here</a></b>) whose writing makes me want to think hard before I write, and to write the very best, because that is what he does. Trust me, (because I'm an editor) there's an undiscovered gem. </div>
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<i style="text-align: center;">Need to hear the chirping of birds,</i></div>
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<i>The light left her eyes, shoulders stooped, she slunk back on her chair.</i></div>
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<i>"She's back from the village with a gift. Taking it, I think, is fair."</i></div>
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<i>We stopped short of words. Yet again we were too hasty and judging.</i></div>
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<i>The househelp across the lane had the comfort only a friend could bring.</i></div>
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<i>Staring at the soppy serial on TV, her only distraction, her eyes welled with tears,</i></div>
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<i>"You wouldn't know what it is to be alone, and to live in fear."</i></div>
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<i>A sharp intake of breath we took. She was right, and we hadn't thought,</i></div>
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<i>What it could be like to lose every loved one life had brought.</i></div>
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<i>There had been a home with Mother and Sister and Goats in a far-off village,</i></div>
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<i>Before it crumbled while she had been away, all mercilessly pillaged.</i></div>
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<i>The Mother and Sister killed by some kin,</i></div>
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<i>For we live in a country where the mighty rule,</i></div>
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<i>The honest and the hard-working man is just a fool.</i></div>
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<i>So it was that she lost her family, for the kin lusted for her life too,</i></div>
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<i>She gave up her hard-earned money to another greedy sister, for there was nothing she could do.</i></div>
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<i>The greedy sister, sent off at birth to a kin-woman who wanted her, became bitter,</i></div>
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<i>To the birth-mother; she felt no sympathy for her remaining sister.</i></div>
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<i>Yet we wondered what made this lonely girl do things for the greedy one,</i></div>
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<i>"She's the only family left... I'm doing what I would anyway have done."</i></div>
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Thank you for reading this poem. I'm glad I wrote it. It makes me feel more aware and empathetic towards a girl I've known for more than eight years, a girl who isn't my sister, yet I've lived under the same roof as her, a girl I've seen striving to be good at everything she learns. It was a hard blow to her (and us) when news of the tragedy that befell her home reached us. We cannot really imagine how she feels to live in such a world. Yet, I've seen her laughing more than I've ever done, and I wonder at that. I don't like the communication gap we have. We don't have long talks. It gets awkward when we do try. I'm annoyed at something most of the times, and it nearly always goes to her. Sometimes I feel like crying if I think of my behaviour considering her situation, because it makes me feel ashamed of myself, of all of us who, after an initial "I'm sorry", tend to forget all about another's tragedy. Every life counts, and each one of it should be celebrated with love and care. Thinking about it just now, I think it would be a good amend to renew what I had started long ago and left too soon without completing it--to teach her to read and write in Hindi. What's the point of being a lover of words when I can't share the love with someone I actually do care about? You rock, V. You'll never read this, but from among this love-hate relationship, love rules. </div>
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I am participating in the National Poem Writing Month (NaPoWriMo). It was a suggestion by a friend, and I readily accepted mostly because I had been craving to get back to blogging, but somehow had not been able to manage it. I've never been into poems. The only poetry book I own was acquired a few days ago, as a gift. But I hope to express my thoughts, realize some truths in the process of writing, and share it on this blog with NaPoWriMo. And oh, the most exciting part about this "project" is that I'm competing with <b><a href="http://blog.usamasulaiman.com/" target="_blank">this</a></b> blogger-friend. We're going to see who writes better, each day. We realized that to get into that writing frame of mind, we needed to be regular, and this could just be the thing. And to keep us motivated, what's better than a challenge? We can self-judge (assuming you guys would be too busy to comment or anything), but you are free to give your opinion! It would inspire us even more! This is tagged #2 because it is April 2 today. We forgot to begin it yesterday. :P</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I shouldn't be writing it down, because writing about anything gives it prominence, and if I give it prominence, I'll see more of it thanks to law of attraction (which works). But how else am I supposed to take it lightly? If I don't write it down on my blog, I'll keep thinking about it and stress over it and waste some more of my extremely limited, very precious time. Coming to the point, my day today was such that I can safely (and sadly) call it a day with the worst luck possible. (All right! I'm exaggerating, but sometimes you have little patience and then it gets tested in the most severe way!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In my current workplace (which has the worst rules, being a six-day work week in the first place), we are allowed to come late to work on three days a month ONLY, after which you start having your late days counted as leaves, and once you exhaust the limit of leaves (which is a paltry two days a month), you start having your pay cut for the day. (The one who made such rules will die.) I didn't think much of it before because I always reached well before the late time for the first two months. And then, as a commenter on one of my previous posts helpfully observed, came winters, when it became a bit too hard to get out of the warm bed in the chilly weather and be in office on time. Now, the 'late' mark is applicable even if you are a mere few seconds later than the deadline (which is so sadistic anyway!). In December, I reached late thrice just in the first week. It's not just the matter of getting up, but the entire thing of having to don so many clothes, dealing with your lethargic reflexes, rushing to the station and running on the platform to reach the 'right' train on time. It's maddening! And then there's the whole mad crowd of people in the metro, which is an entire issue altogether. To cut a long story short, I <i>had </i>to, in fact <i>have </i>to, be on time this entire month or else just work for the company for free (which they don't deserve, because they're already eating my head off for a bargain that suits only them).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I haven't even begun on the day. Ugh! I woke up fairly on time, did everything on time, but somehow, because it is just so cold, I got 5 minutes late and set off at an alarming 8.20 (my absolute latest before this was 8.16). Scoot catches a cold in winters and needs half a minute's warming up before it can start, so I put it in position while it warmed up, and then set off speedily. Having crossed two blocks, I realized I hadn't picked up my phone. Cursing everything I saw, I turned around and zoomed back, got the phone and started again, having actually lost hope for being on time today. Still, I'm a hard nut to crack, so I held on to shreds of hope, and found a place for Scoot under the tree where the roosting birds who use Scoot for their droppings, live.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The metro was packed, but after half an hour, I found a seat (yay!). It was still five minutes till deadline, so I walked and half-walked-half-ran with as much speed possible (because you haven't seen the crowd at that station, either in number or in type). The usual auto-ricksha driver waved to catch my attention (and such are his marketing skills that I'm now accustomed to <i>look </i>for him) and I gratefully sat in the auto. There was an armada of autos and buses on the road, but thankfully the driver seemed to be in as much a hurry as I was, or perhaps my sense of urgency was so tangible that he sensed it, so we got a clear road pretty much within a few seconds. There was <i>some </i>delay because the roads were bumpy, and I ended up punching in my finger 45 <i>seconds </i>after the deadline. There! Perhaps my labour of the day wouldn't even fetch me my dues (and I worked so hard today. Sucks).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The day finally ended. I take a lift from one of my
co-workers, who came ten minutes late. When we finally moved, there was such a
traffic jam as we never saw before. It was HUGE. That was when I actually
imagined and saw the level of insanity in traffic and population explosion. The
actual explosion for me came when my lift-giver said that since traffic wasn't
moving an inch, she'd have to take an alternative route, and she actually
convinced me that I could get to the station faster if I walked. I got down
amidst traffic and started walking on the so-called pedestrian path (which was
so high that you’d have to scramble on top of it instead of just step on it,
like it should be!). As I stumbled along, because the path was not only high
and broken but also uneven, cars, two-and-three wheelers, trucks (and cows) started
moving because the traffic jam kind of broke. Talk about timing!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’d ideally have wanted to take the opposite road, which was
where my preferred metro station entrance was, but with such mad traffic (and
mad people) it’d only have been inviting death, and I don’t fancy a death at
their hands. As a result, glaring lights from thousands of vehicles met my
eyes, making me stumble even more, especially as it had got dark by then and I
had just realized, for the first time, that there was a large space on my
right, dense with trees and bushes and whatever else. My breath came in sharp gasps and my heavy bag felt even heavier on my back. It was all I could do to
hurry and not get kidnapped (because of course, these are common, everyday
things in our fantastic country). I’m not even mentioning the horrid smells
that met me each time I breathed just enough to avoid passing out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After what seemed like years, but were perhaps ten or
fifteen minutes in reality, I reached the station and ran upstairs, not looking
at anybody and promising to leave this job asap! (Still hasn’t happened. Anyone
reading this knows of a workplace that is situated in a decent-enough area?
PLEASE tell me) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I don’t recall what happened after that. The train would
definitely have been extremely full, I wouldn’t have got a seat (even when the
train starts from that station), and I would have narrated the details of the
day with much screaming and cursing at home (as a matter of fact, I do remember this).
By the time I would have written half of this post, I’d have been tired and
left it to complete later, never getting around to do it until today, when it
seems irrelevant but is better than boring work at boring work! (It’s not
always boring. Today is just one of those Fridays I feel angry that I have to
come the next day too.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; white-space: pre-wrap;">If luck was measured in days, it was the worst luck day! :X </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="77dum-0-0">And this world is a madhouse.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kbye.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PS—Not really bye, because I have to update! I’ve been busy
with something… a secret project, say…and it’ll keep me occupied like <i>anything
</i>till at least the next three weeks. After that, I might have some time to
write and post the thoughts of my befuddled mind, but I’ll only let you in on
the secret when the time is right. Wait for it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">PPS—Post December, I’ve entirely stopped bothering with
keeping time to each minute in the morning. Even if I’m 5 minutes late, I’m
still coolly devouring my current read (The Lord of The Rings right now),
because so much of anxiety is just not worth it! Those who complain can go to
hell. </span></span></div>
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