Desires
We are challenged by the audacity of our desires but also restricted by their focus.
Thank God then for life’s miracles…and its disappointments.
We are challenged by the audacity of our desires but also restricted by their focus.
Thank God then for life’s miracles…and its disappointments.
A Spy In The House Of Love by Anaïs NinMy rating: 2 of 5 stars This book is described as Erotic Fiction. Having read ‘Eros Unbound’ (Nin’s erotica short stories, enjoyed greatly), I began with the expectation of lyricism in the writing too. There was far less sex than I…
When you dip a paint-brush gently into a bowl of clear water, the paint swirls around in the shapes like fractals and butterflies till it spirals into itself and vanishes in the water. When I look deep into other people’s lives, I’m faced by a sense of awe, at the…
It’s a post-apocalyptic world inside my head. Watching ‘Deadpool’ was a nasty reminder. But so was sympathy from a stranger.
Celebrations. I’ve decided I’m going to have them as often and as self indulgently as I can. I’m thirty-five, not dead!
An ode to disappointing idols, to deified affections, to desecrated loyalties,
I hate it when writers pull stunts like that, making a book sound like something else in its title. I only bought it because the blurb described it as the male ‘Sex And The City’.
@ Wiseling: I don’t know. Caferati once ran a segment where contributors were asked to write about an issue but taking the opposite point of view (if you were pro-reservation, write as if you were against). It was an exercise to test precisely how you could handle this.
But doesn’t one’s essence often get surreptitiously interlaced? Even a teensy little bit?
@ Wiseling: Hmm, a blogger is often making only an observation or a re-telling, not a personal expression. But people don’t usually get that.
@ Infinity: Isn’t it?
@ Pensive Lawyer: No, its conventional wisdom.
Simple lesson –
Its not about getting what you want but about wanting what you got!
Was it Shania Twain?….lol
oh so true…
Hmmmm…. I vaguely remember reading the line somewhere and I looked it up.. It appears that I am so fond of quotes that they insidiously ensconce themselves into my psyche. Oh well…
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
~Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
So anyway, the whole point of this comment is to point out that he was the melancholy one, not moi. (though I suppose I do tend to get rather lachrymose at times..)
I suppose it is more an undeniable truth than a tragedy… I was just in a rather sombre mood and my writing mirrors my emotions.
@ Apoo: Yes, original hai. Thank you! 🙂
@ Wiseling: Not a tragedy perhaps? I love the second comment!
@ Shreyasi: I’ve commented on your blog on this.
Wiseling,
I agree. IS here has inspired me to write some more on my page as I stayed with the thought…
@Shreyasi
You can’t always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes you might find,
You get what you need.
~Rolling Stones
I don’t want what I get and I get what I want not…
There are only two great tragedies in life…. One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it..
Original hai?
Jo bhi ho, Sahi hai!