Just Chemistry
Sex and romance and all of that may be purely chemical but well, life is a chemistry lab.
Love
Falling Lessons
I had Judo lessons where they taught us to fall correctly & not hurt ourselves. How come no one ever told us about falling in love safely?
Trust Is A Trapeze Without A Safety Net
A friend asked me yesterday how I would feel if my boyfriend took off on a trip with my best friend. I thought for a bit and said, I trust my best friend implicitly so I think I’d feel a lot safer if my boyfriend went with her rather than…
Palette Of Emotion
I relate to emotion visually. Humiliation is a mottled dark green flecked with brownish-red. Peace is a silvery pool with traces of blue.
The ‘It’s Complicated’ Relationship
We are a generation of options. ‘It’s complicated’ refers to everything in our lives. But is it just the men making it so?
The Man-Child: Tribulations Of A Twenty-Five-Old
There is a new kind of man about making me rethink my notions of relationships. Welcome to the 25 year old who comes with his own tribulations.
Musical Memory
I’ve had a strange relationship with music. I’m musical but not by identity. I remember listening to Winds of change by the Scorpions on my Walkman, lying between bundles of sheets and clothes in a corner bedroom. I remember that I was wearing a pair of corduroys that seemed to…
A Friendly Date And Some More Revelations
Yesterday I went out with a friend whom I haven’t seen or spoken to in eight years. This is one of my memorable Facebook moments since that’s how I found him after all these years. It was an odd, intense friendship back then and for various reasons, we just lost…
What Do We Look For In A Partner?
I asked Twitter what we look for in a partner. The responses made me ponder strength and how I seek it out in men. And other things that people look for.
City | Poetry | Relationships
Athens To Mumbai
Athens,sleeps outside my window tonightAnd so do you, a sea and a continent awayNo camera can capture,nor words describe what my eyes see In the city of the virgin goddess, a mortal woman sleeps alone. ~O~O~O~O~ A year later, in a city of no sleep and too much sex, she…