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.
I met the love that healed me this week. Ours was a relationship that was never defined and yet had oh, so much more depth and emotion than all those by-the-book love/friendship/boyfriend-girlfriend things did. And yet, we’d come close, so close it was like being in love. And then abruptly…
How do you harvest imagination in a field of concrete & glass? You let it all burn down to ashes first.
Not a good time. Not a good mood. December always gets me down. Even though the fabulousness of my life must make me seem like a crank for complaining. It’s too many people, too many expectations, too much to consider and keep track of. They say a man (person) is…
Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin My rating: 4 of 5 stars The backstory of this book is as much a part of this book as its characters. Anais Nin and a group of her fellow writers were offered 100 dollars a month, by an anonymous collector to write erotic…
Do we invest any pride in the act of asking? Ask.
Another day in paradise,without you,Is just another day,for me. But for you, maybe,It’s room to breathe,A place to thinkA time to be. What’s odd is that, in every minute,in every possible way,You’re always, completely you.With or without me. And I wonder then,If, to matter to you,Jailer or AlchemistIs all I…
Original hai?
Jo bhi ho, Sahi hai!
There are only two great tragedies in life…. One is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it..
I don’t want what I get and I get what I want not…
@Shreyasi
You can’t always get what you want,
But if you try sometimes you might find,
You get what you need.
~Rolling Stones
Wiseling,
I agree. IS here has inspired me to write some more on my page as I stayed with the thought…
@ 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.
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.
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..)
oh so true…
Simple lesson –
Its not about getting what you want but about wanting what you got!
Was it Shania Twain?….lol
@ 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.
But doesn’t one’s essence often get surreptitiously interlaced? Even a teensy little bit?
@ 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.