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Forgot to wish a friend on his birthday. It was on the 7th of January. Messed up the date and wished him at the end of the day. Being adults with very different lifestyles and a set of tedious societal commitments, this small wish doesn't weigh much on the conscious of most but not having wished him on one day made me self reflect. How much does one give significance to societal niceties and would having failed one such commitment been too much of a big deal? Well, he did say no. Said that writing a "paragraph" isn't necessary. It is because the conversations we had throughout the year mean much more to him and are genuine than some written niceties out of obligation. He had a point, but I have mine too. Here goes nothing. He's been here throughout the year and the phrase 'one call away' is his nickname- he'd be there as soon as soon as he sees his texts. Makes one quite the angel in the times of 'busy' homies. He'd adjust his times and be ...
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Writer's Block? No. Walking on the Moon? Yes.

Words and stories just don't always come around as naturally as one takes writing on a face value. Hours of dry thoughts running through your mind and dizzying after effects of repetitive plots and characters cloud the new imaginative outlet and gives rise to what we call "A WRITER'S BLOCK".  Situations and circumstances directly influence the creative outlet. Times are becoming of who we are and cannot be taken out of the equation when one sits to write. Although frequencies of such such influences differ from person to person. For me, the frequency keeps peaking everytime I encounter such a dry woozy phase. I am unable to write something that I want to read. A momentary colourful thought encircles my mind and it disappears before it could take a definite shape. Constantly worrying about career and future doesn't help either with the revelling in the present or taking a whiff of the aromatic past just gives rise to the anxious nauseousness of the nightmarish real...

Anxious Nonchalance

Personally, it is quite a difficult feat to get my feelings across properly as well. A friend last night said that he is "emotionally constipated", something he very nonchalantly agreed and accepted about himself. The sentence didn't have an effect as dousing one in cold water as many usually put dramatically but I for me, I sat up wide awake.  Yesterday I had a pretty long day, keeping up commitments with society, friends, family and a bit uncompromisingly, with my own self as well. I thought, I'd go to sleep and that'll be the end of it but I decided to read through the texts pending on my cell and wala, my sleepy daze was cleared with a breath of fresh wind.  Something that I'd want to achieve.  I am known to be someone who is detached regardless of how moving the situation is. I didn't shed a single tear on my farewell ceremony in either of my schools and I looked pretty happy in the pictures from back then. I don't budge when my family gets into a...

Recurring Dreams pt. 1

Many a times, decidedly, I came upon the conclusion that "yeah, I have pretty much lived all fulfilling years" (regardless of my age, duh, I'm young and have a long way to go but again not much can be kept to the calendar with the raging pandemic cases). Now, with the onset of sweet dreaming summer (personally, I don't find the heat of summer sweet at all), I see my subconscious playing in front of me at night. Coming from a person who says "I've made peace with my past", it sounds absurd when I dream of an insignificant soul who I had a fight with in my school life. The colours I see the devil incarnate in, aren't quite the happy pastel colours I consciously associate with my school life but colours enough to adorn a Gothic Lord of the 18th century CE.  Being a Literature major, nothing is more embarrassing than following just a plain thought process with wrong interpretations clouding their mind. And even more fatal to one's ego is when that on...

The Abstract Art of Writing

Once there was a writer who didn't know how to write.  Every story has to start and the best way to put forward one is to start from the beginning. But what about the stories that had no beginning? What about the stream that never got to know which of the mountains in flowed from? What about the kid who never knew who the other parent was? There's only so much a story itself can do and the story of the storyteller begins, it the teller who weaves the rest of it, the God who designs the state of innocence for their listeners, well, in this case, readers. I started writing on Wattpad before I gathered up my bile to throw up on Blogger. I started out with simple fan fiction stories. It was a strange sense of Euphoria if I had to be real: my first book got a lot of recognition and reviews were overwhelming and it has been a bit over a year since I started writing there with days and weeks and now even months of not being able to type words. It took me so long before I realised that...

Unusual Beginnings

It's a Start... at the very least It is strange how one stumbles across the most out of place happenings around them and be inspired by it to start something new, resume something old or just continue what they have been doing but this time with intensifying the vigour.  In my case, likewise, something likely surreal happened and one viewer may comment, "well, she is doing all three at once". For once, I started something new by putting my first blog post up there, I am resuming my writing after having being stuck for weeks months with a miserable writer's block and yes I am continuing letting my thoughts free but this time intensifying it with certain definite words.  As for the incident, well, that may be added sometime later as I continue my writing and posting and communicating escapade with an accent, please. (Reading and editing at a later date, 22.05.2021, this miraculously stimulating event, stands forgotten, lost in the fog of oblivion. So, here I am wonderi...