I'm sure you know that feeling when something scares you oh, so much! It could also be someone. So what do you do? Do you run away? Or do you face it? Like one of my friends said, "People only talk about flight or fight. There is a third kind of response too. It is [...]
Tag: Finding oneself
How Much is Too Much?
They could be anyone -- your partner, parent or friend. They say that they love you and thus they are doing what they are doing. They mean well, obviously. They have nothing but your best interest in mind. Most importantly, they remind you through everyday things that they love you. Now, love is a funny [...]
Let’s Give Chance a Chance
How will you ever know what could have been if we never gave it a chance? We can imagine all we want but never really know for sure. There will always be a teeny tiny possibility of the opposite kind. Yes, imagination is a good thing to have. Indeed, great. But give it a rest [...]
What You Deserve
So many times in life, we have people telling us what we should do and get. Just as many times, we let them tell us so. We even take to heart their opinion. Some of us go the extra mile and follow the advice too. If people think we are good, we keep at it. [...]
A World Free of Guilt
Don't you wish if the world we live in could just let us live & not throw on us the heavy weight of guilt of so many kinds? Well, I certainly do! Come on, think of it. There are so, so many types of things that all of us would go ahead and accomplish, if [...]
The Right Time
It is said that there is a right time for everything. So exactly when is it? When is the right time to get married? When is the right time to have a baby? When is the right time to move in or move out? When is the right time to quit? When is the right [...]
Starting Afresh
"What? You want to leave everything you have got till now and start over? From scratch?" they asked. "I want to start afresh," she said. "It's the same! Plus, it's insane," they emphasised. "What if it will make me happy?" she asked. "What if you end up disappointed?" they asked back. "At least I would [...]
Call Me My Age
Call me my age Because I won't have it any other way. Treat me my age Because I have earned it anyway. I am a lady, No longer a girl. It's no longer "Sadie," "Sarah" can't be taken for a whirl. My looks might deceive But my words will not. What my past did receive, [...]
What’s in a Name?
The name we go by becomes our identity. It is something we hear innumerable times each day and every single time, we pay attention when it's taken. It is what we are introduced as to people we might have never even come across. So many emotions connected to us ring in the hearts of people [...]
Only Dreaming, No Doing
When she signed up for the architecture course of five long years, the only thing Mia was sure about was that she had more than enough time to become an author. She thought that somehow, something will happen and she would find herself writing everyday thereafter. She dreamed how "very soon" she would no longer draw [...]
An Author You'll Remember 