Memoirs Of A Story-teller
I saw a tag floating around and decided to write my own memoirs in 6 words:
I strove for individuality, then acceptance.
I saw a tag floating around and decided to write my own memoirs in 6 words:
I strove for individuality, then acceptance.
‘Harriet the Spy’ is about a 11 year old girl who is gagged by family & system and forced into therapy. Reading helped me crystallise my own identity crisis.
A short tale in 55 words. Her parents say that she was born talking. Then she discovered writingEnglish grammar compositionsStories and poetryLetters and emailsChats and instant messagingSMSes, Orkut scrapsResumes and reports Then she stumbled onto bloggingAnd anonymous postingEven editing and deletingAnd much later, private publishing But silence is yet to…
An appointment on my calendar had me venturing out of the busy suburbs and into the quieter heartland of what is otherwise town. Matunga was an adventure.
How do you harvest imagination in a field of concrete & glass? You let it all burn down to ashes first.
The Corner Coffeeshop was open for business but its traffic was at a lull. It was too early in the evening for the post-work crowd, too late for the students and AC-enjoying unemployed to be hanging around. Outside, the sun had gone down but that curious combination of atmospheric density…
This boxy is a box. It is not me. When you trap my identity in labels of gender, regional feature, skin colour, this body makes me feel like a prisoner.
@ Ashish: Sometimes I doubt that.
@ shub, blankspaces, chandni: 🙂
@ {illyria}: But sometimes it is so difficult to live with!
@ rahul: There’s a lifetime between ‘should’ and ‘does’.
@ Cynic: Some things are really better written about than experienced; wouldn’t you agree?
@ Brad: That’s why you are my AE! That was six words too, so there! And this last one too, what say? Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
All three comments have six words.
OK. I am being a smartass. 😈 😛
F#$K Six. Give me a Hi-Five!
nice.
I think it hold true for me as well to some extent 😀
chandni’s last blog post..A new begining?
very nice ..love the tension in the statement
Cynic in Wonderland’s last blog post..Geek and Latin
probably the undertone of today’s alpha woman?
u never fail to impress with ur words..:)
blankspaces’s last blog post..Wired bundle
……….acceptance is not one should strove for…coz then one has to play to the gallery
i love the dichotomy of being human.
Nice one 🙂
shub’s last blog post..Back and still raving about the food…
I believe you are strong enough not to give up individuality and try
“blending in” 🙂
@ Ashish: And then want to blend in..*sigh*
@ Rambler: Is it? I don’t know. I’m too young to write my memoirs!
@ chennairamblings: Precisely. 🙄
It’s ironic, isn’t it?
We somehow sacrifice individuality for acceptance, all the time.
chennairamblings’s last blog post..For the ?king of kings?
I think best thing about any memoir is “striving”..It never ends, does it?
That is what makes one stand out of the crowd! 😎