Letting Go
On letting go.
Navigating complex emotions of jealousy, ambition, insecurity, joy, fear, peace, anger, happiness, betrayal, contentment, disappointment, love.
On letting go.
I hate my self today.Didn’t call when I said I wouldBasked in a compliment I knew I didn’t deserveSmiled and fumed internally after I promised I wouldn’t reactHaven’t done oodles of chores that I should have completed months agoStayed in bed when the doorbell rang so someone else would get…
What’s courage like?It’s like walking to the very edge of the cliffStraight into the skyAnd not stopping. What’s determination like?It’s like standing completely perpendicular to the groundShoulders back, eyes level with what’s comingTill all motion, even breathing stops…but standing still. What’s toughness like?It’s like feeling heat turn ever so slowly…
8 a.m. on a weekday morning. Mumbai’s crankiest best. Sweepers shuffling dust into the air with a vengeance, cars spelling out “Eat my dust” in their fumes, people shuffling to work. I stood at the bus stop frowning into thin air, waiting for a bus that was always late on…
What a vacuum feels like.
A brooding player. A sensitive charmer. We are running parallel monologues.
This day of August is a milestone.
If I could utter just two words for my whole life I would say, “Never forget.” Never forget anything or anyone. Any experience that changes you has already left an inerasable impression on you, which is the cause for the way you are after it has passed. Any person who…
Eyes ringed with dark circles, lids drooping, dull ache at the back of my neck..and my weekend’s only just beginning. I’ve been having a ‘social life’ in the past two days that I haven’t had for a long time – courtesy a friend who’s here from the city that really…