Do you think life never drastically changes? That it is impossible in reality? Read on and I bet to prove you wrong with a true story. He was born in a backward caste at a time when the caste system enjoyed a stronghold in his country. He spent his boyhood in a small continuously leaking [...]
Tag: Motivation
Relationship Rubble
What do you do when you come to love someone with a lot of relationship rubble? Do you clean up their mess or build over it? Like buildings, we are all works in progress. Someone lays our foundation, someone else builds us up. Every single day, some work is done on us. But at times, [...]
No Regrets
"If only I had not done this, things could have been so much better..." "Oh, but I did have a great time!" These are the two different voices that keep echoing in our mind after something we had done ends up in not-so-good results. So we can either beat ourself up with regret or raise [...]
Gratitude
I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning, not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night, I was sleeping under a bridge [...]
The Glorious Mess Called “Us”
"How can her life be just perfect? Everything about her future, from her higher education to her job to her to-be husband is so sorted out. And in a good way! Just how?" wondered aloud I to a friend. "We don't know everything about her. So relax," she replied. "Still! And look at me! I [...]
Bailing Out on a Friend
A friend in need is a friend indeed. We have all heard or read the above saying a million times. But it never really hits us till it actually hits home. Till we are receiving the short end of the stick. Or worse, till we are the ones bailing out on a friend. There is [...]
The Thrill of Not Knowing
There are two kinds of people amongst the movie-goers. One kind wants to know the main plot beforehand. The other kind would hate to know anything at all. The funny thing about life is that whether we want to or not, nobody knows what is going to happen next. Herein, according to me, lies the [...]
Ego or Self-Respect
"When do you know it is ego and when it is self-respect?" asked a friend. "When you don't regret it later, it is self-respect. Otherwise, ego," replied I. "Great one! I will think over this," she said. While the advice-seeker appreciated the eloquence of the advice, little did she know that it stemmed from the [...]
Go On
A hundred things to do, A hundred people to answer to, A hundred reasons to quit, Yet we go on because we want to. We got ourselves into this, Knowing fully how crazy it could get, Knowing that it would all transpire only from our sweat, Yet we go on because we want to. No [...]
Butterflies in the Stomach
Do you know that tingly feeling in the stomach, just before you are about to do something really important? The sort that makes you not want to eat much? Even makes your concentrating on anything difficult? Of course, you do! These are the symptoms which are commonly called as butterflies in the stomach. Everyone experiences [...]
An Author You'll Remember 