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.
I started ‘The Thirty Diaries’ a month before I hit 30. Now, six months from my 35th birthday, I do a mid-way check.
Lunch at the cafe, alone. At long last. My thoughts and I dine together. I’m Jill and I want lunch. The host wants me to sit in any one of the dingy corners and ignore the brighter, roomier booths in the centre. I make a wry face so he concedes…
A Tiny Tale about settling a score in maths class. My first attempt at a short story for young readers.
It turns out that May is Short Story Month. So I’m going to try and serve up a Tiny Tale every day through May. Enjoy! ====================================================== Chandran stepped into his hawai chappals, grimacing. Even his slippers were slick with sweat. Nevertheless, he moved to the balcony, hoping the sky would…
Fifteen years ago, I won the first prize in a school singing contest. My reward was a gift voucher to the annual school Book Fair. And this book is what I brought home. Nearly two years ago, I shared the story of how Katy came into my life and everything…
I wasn’t a cool kid or a hip teenager. But I had a plan. A decade later, I look back and wonder, how did things turn out so differently?
@ 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! 😎