Four Boxes and a Scrapbook I desperately want to sneeze. I am not sick or anything. I am sitting amidst a lot of dusty old stuff and I had an inspiration to write. I am supposed to be packing and in true procrastinator fashion, now I feel like writing something. I happily oblige because you […]
Month: August 2020
Journal 01
Journal 01 Today I learned a lesson. Some friendships will wither away, no matter how much you water it. But that’s okay just like we move around old stuff and make way for new shiny stuff, we are making space in our life for someone new! Sounds crazy, I know! It may not be the […]
Why feminism and not humanism
Why feminism and not humanism This is the age of revolutions , enlightenments and acceptance, the age where we are finally breaking all these glass ceilings which shouldn’t have been there in the first place. People are finally opening up about their struggles and they’re being accepted as who they want to be which has […]
A letter to (not) you
A letter to (not) you Hey,I’ve typed out and deleted around 20 odd emails like this one before. I don’t see a different fate for this one either. Still this typing and deleting it helps me calm down even for a bit. When does a person become our friend? Is it when we go out […]
Prisoner
Prisoner As the rain poured down, I looked out the window. Pitter patter of the raindrops trying to lure me out. How I wish I could step out in the rain. A flash of lightning lit up my room. Shadows on the wall seem to be dancing. I am struck by a fear I can’t […]
Struggles of a misfit
Struggles of a misfit Just the other day I was binge watching a show on Netflix and was blown away by how villain of the show was hidden in plain sight! He was there from the first scene. He did a good job on blending in that I never even saw him there. That made […]
Lol- what’s so funny??
Lol- what’s so funny?? “Knock, knock!”“Who’s there?”My guess is as good as yours, but it is probably a joke! After all who doesn’t like a good laugh?Every human is born with the unique ability to laugh, it’s a universal language understood by all. As someone funny once said, ” Laughter has no foreign accent”. Laughter […]
The race
The race I’m running through this endless path,trying hard to hold my head high,desperately hoping to defy my death,As my long awaited end is nigh. I’m celebrating my narrow escapesLike I’m the champion of a raceWhen I’m broken to a thousand pieces,Tired and can’t keep up the pace. I keep running and chasing my dreamsLike […]
To the beautiful you
To the beautiful you Hey there 🐒!So this is gonna be one long ass message. I don’t know what to say to cheer you up.I wish I could tell you everything will be fine and you should cheer up and you’d be able to be happy and chirpy like the old you I know. But […]
My firefly
“Do you have a lot of friends?”His smile widened. He held both of his palms to the front and started counting- “Sami, Meena, revathy, selvam, Muthu, pavizham, Raj” and folded each of his fingers as he spoke their name and after a small pause he added “kayathri” . My firefly Before I had death anxiety, […]