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Unpleasant Reminders

March 7, 2011 4:19 PMOctober 4, 2023 3:30 PM Map Of Emotion

Xion says that holding onto bad experiences is like watching a movie while thinking about the most disastrous film you’ve ever seen. The possibly passable flaws in the current one seem disproportionately bigger. That was yesterday.

Today is a rush of old, bad memories. Someone’s still watching me. Why? A picture that reminds me of someone I wish I’d never met. Why did it pop up right there, right now? Why did there have to be these reminders? WHY?

No answers, no answers. But a lot more practice and a tiny little insight. I’m still breathing. I’m still standing. And I’ll go back to smiling.

Any minute now.

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Welcome To Friendship Dial-In Services…

November 7, 2016July 25, 2023

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A phone crash made me realise just how much friendship has become equated to customer services.

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Different Shades of Grief

May 3, 2020July 16, 2023

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In how many ways shall I experience grief? I watched THAPPAD and thought about all the people who have hit me. In plural

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Being Okay Again

September 27, 2012September 28, 2023

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I decided to pick happiness over drama this time and funnily enough, it actually was enough. I’m getting to be okay again.

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Painful thoughts

May 2, 2007April 14, 2024

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Some people make you come to lifeIt’s like they make you feel so much moreAnd they do it by hurting you ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ Masochism isn’t that abnormal after allEveryone picks their scabs and healing bruises when they are kidsSome people just carry that behaviour into their emotions as well ~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~ And…

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F for Four Year Old Lessons

April 7, 2015September 17, 2023

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This is something I wrote at one of Rochelle’s workshops. I haven’t edited it too much and I might consider performing it. Then again, once I put it out there, I might not need to anymore. This is a delayed poem for the April 2015 A to Z Challenge. ~O~O~O~O~O~ Four…

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What’s Next?

December 22, 2020March 18, 2023

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I was looking up sarees online. My mother thought my choices might not look that impressive on video calls. I told her, “The pandemic will not last forever.” Three-fourths of a year into a global shutdown, I can see how it can be difficult to remember this. In addition, the…

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Staap Eet says:

March 7, 2011 at 4:59 PM

Blogging about it = few minutes more of your life spent thinking about it. Bad call, Ramya.

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