You cannot make someone love you. No matter how wonderful, talented, beautiful, fabulous, kind, generous or successful you are. It’s an immutable law of nature.
Because the heart that is locked, contains its own key within it. Discovering that is every person’s individual quest and no one else has any business interfering with that.
Big dreams crumble to dust And mix with the debris of everyday And tomorrow or next week No one will even remember or know A life was built here And tiny victories won Till a final storm Blew it all to dust Before long though, These shattered, scattered remains Will…
Today is the last day of The Thirty Diaries, a series I started a little over a decade ago. Tomorrow, I turn 40, a number that brings its share of weight in the form of platitudes and stereotypes, some of which I’ve already encountered and battled. I am not sure…
At the Performance Poetry workshop I attended yesterday, we looked at some videos of performers. One of them had a few notes playing in the background and the performer speaking in a characteristic singsong, often-rhyming style. I blurted out, “But that’s rap!” The others smiled and told me that rap…
It’s not my birthday now but it is of a lot of people I love.
It has been over three months since I came back to work. Three months. A quarter of a year. I like the work I’m doing. It is fascinating and fun and challenging enough to keep me interested but not so much that I’m crumbling under the pressure. I like the…
Daily stories for wisdom & grace in the form of #TodaysTale
🙂 true that. amazing how many people want to convince the other that they are in love!
wonder what inspired this post… 😉
@meetu: Nothing of the sort that you’d be thinking of. This is just sorting out stuff in my mind…stuff I’ve always known but it makes things clearer to be able to articulate it.
Yes, it does make things clearer when we put them down to paper or keyboard. 🙂 Trouble is that some minds are so into themselves that they often forget lessons learned.