"You are an only child, aren't you?" I asked, matter of factly. "Where did that come from? But, well... yes. How did you know?" asked a completely baffled junior who I had spoken to for barely ten minutes the very first time. "I know one when I see one. You have all the symptoms of [...]
Tag: Life
Bonding Over Food
Did you ever feel like you wanted to eat this and that and also that, but tried to keep calm lest others might judge you? And then, voila! You find someone with a food urge just like you. Boy, are you glad! Enjoying food alone is also pretty satisfactory. But having someone along for the [...]
Wheelchair Love
What is your first reaction when you see someone on a wheelchair? Empathy, pity? Surprisingly, mine today was, "I want something like that!" So much so that my eyes welled up... An old woman was on a wheelchair, with her right hand upright in a weird manner and her face sort of permanently turned slightly [...]
The Reason to Smile
As a child, whenever someone smiled at me just as a courtesy, I never smiled back. Even when my mother asked me to, I did not. My explanation was a question, "Why???" "Because it is polite," Mom would reply. "But why should I smile without a reason? They did not crack a joke," I would [...]
Believe
At times, we really, really want something. The odds might be against us yet we want it. But the sad part is that there is not much that we can do about it. Though there is always one thing that we can - wherever, whenever, however! We can believe. It might sound a little too [...]
Daddy’s Daughter, Daddy’s ‘Precious’
Remember how Gollum used to call the ring "my precious" in The Lord of the Rings? How his eyes were always on it and how he was ready to go to any extent for it? How he was madly in love with it? Strange as it may seem but that is what I got reminded [...]
OCDs Like Sheldon’s
Penny once called Sheldon "a creature of habit" in the hit show The Big Bang Theory. Anyone who has seen the show knows how right Penny was for Sheldon had an obsessive compulsive disorder for too many things under the sun. From his Sheldonian calender which had a clearly marked food menu and demarcation of [...]
Why Not To Give Up
Let's make a pro-con list. Number of reasons to give up: hundreds Number of reasons to press on - hard: only one Then WHY still keep going? Why when everything is going against us and there is not the faintest hope that things will improve? Why when we ourselves have sort of given in to [...]
Old Friends
You are friends with someone. You can talk endlessly to them. Over time, due to personal or work commitments, the two of you slowly lose touch. But then one fine day, one of you calls the other or the two of you bump into each other and you pick up from exactly where you left. [...]
We In Our Stories
Every story we write may have different characters, settings and themes. But there is a constant that always slides in effortlessly in each of them. That constant is us - the writer. Here, I am not referring to the style of the author but the characteristics that the author possesses as a person. Somehow, somewhere, [...]
An Author You'll Remember 