Tuesday, February 11, 2014

A Wilting Flower

Wow, two years! And this place is still alive - well, somewhat. I never thought I'd return to this space, but right now, it feels like the only place for refuge. A safe haven, away from all the chaos and conundrums of life. It has been a while since I stole a few quiet moments to myself. I am supposed to use this time to finish pending work, but somehow, work's far from my mind at this point.

Sometimes, I visit my blog and read and reread my earlier posts, and the comments on them. It seems like another life, really. My thoughts, my aspirations, even my outlook towards everything has changed tremendously. Its just not about me anymore. Its almost as if I'm so lost in the everyday chores, that nothing excites me anymore. If something new or different does come up, it irks me even more, because my 'schedule' gets disrupted. It's like I'm watching the days go by, doing the same thing every day. I don't even realize when the week came to end or how the weekend flew by. I always have a to-do list to cross off. I don't know when I wrote last...I used to love writing poems but if I look inside for inspiration now, all I see is a blank.

What happened to me? I was always the carefree one, always the one living in a dream. It's not like I hate my life, oh no, I have so much to be thankful for. But it feels like something's died inside. It feels empty. I'm living without a purpose, do you know how terrifying that sounds? I need to be inspired, to dream again...to find a new passion, to look forward to each day. I do hope getting back to the blog is a start somehow.

A poem by William Shakespeare is befitting:

The Life Without Passion

They that have power to hurt, and will do none,              
That do not do the thing they most do show,     
Who, moving others, are themselves as stone, 
Unmovèd, cold, and to temptation slow,         
 
They rightly do inherit heaven's graces,          
And husband nature's riches from expense;      
They are the lords and owners of their faces,    
Others, but stewards of their excellence.            
 
The summer's flower is to the summer sweet,  
Though to itself it only live and die;            
But if that flower with base infection meet,        
The basest weed outbraves his dignity:
 
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;             

Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds.

Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Mermaid

A sea of change

Has drowned my being

Washed ashore

A different scene


I’ve learnt to surf

The waves of time

Follow the current

Emerge sublime


I’ve found love

And it has found me

Joy is growing

Inside of me


The sea is set

To alter its course

I’m ready to ride

To far off shores


I pray to God

To guide me through

These open waters

And winds anew…

Friday, June 24, 2011

I Long for Yesterday....


One of my favorites! Straight from the heart!

Thursday, June 02, 2011

The Year of Reunions

Living up the good old days is always a great idea! This is why I loved it when my BFF suggested to plan a reunion lunch with our graduation classmates - just the Journalism batch girls. Thanks to Facebook, we got in touch with most of our batch mates and were glad to see the responses pouring in. It was just a matter of a few days till we finalized the date and place. Finally when we met up we hugged each other like crazy, typical girls gone berserk! It was amazing to see how much we'd changed and where we'd ended up. Most of us were married, one was expecting - she looked gorgeous btw - and the others were full on career women! It was so great to catch up and talk of the silly things we did in college, updates on professors and stuff. It was hard to believe we were all meeting after 6 years. We could have spent the entire day chit chatting!

This reunion was such a success that I couldn't help but plan out one for my post grad classmates - this time in Mumbai. Got in touch with my batch coordinator at the time and have already started the initial planning. I'm thinking an overnight stay at a beach resort would be superb, provided we're able to book in time. I guess everyone loves the idea of reliving the good times so here also the reactions are crazy! Looking forward to this one now, I'm pretty sure it'll be grand!