Remembrance

For this year's AtoZ challenge, I am planning to focus on various emotions, feelings, quality, phrases or situations in life and end the post with a song that I feel may evoke that particular emotion/word/phrase. Usually, I have written with the flow, but this time, I want to push myself. Let's see where this heads towards :) Acceptance.   Isn't this the most important, yet the most difficult thing to do in life? It is tough to accept ourselves and each other as we are, to look beyond our biases and insecurities, and even to accept certain situations in life.  While our first reaction to difficult situations in life mostly is denial, it takes us time to reach to a stage of accepting the eventualities and thereafter look for solutions or moving beyond the situation. Acceptance is almost never the first reaction, and it is understandable. For us, survival is the key and the fight, flight or freeze response is our way of tackling with an issue at that particular moment. If onl...

We do get this question a lot of time: Which character do you think you associate yourself with the most? While I didn't really put my head into it, but off-lately while trying to figure myself out I realised that there are these two famous people/characters that come very close to defining me. Who are they? Carrie Bradshaw from ‘Sex and the City’ and Twinkle Khanna. While I associate the most with Carrie, Twinkle gives that desi flavour to my character. Carrie is like my soulmate, my image in the mirror. A writer, and an independent woman, she is funny, goofy and often lost in her own world. She tries to see good in everything, and yet has a threshold for bullshit too. When she says enough is enough, she means it. Her brand of humour is mine too. Funny, sarcastic and with loads of intelligent puns. And, she knows what to filter out and how. Then there is Mr. Big in her life, someone she often runs away from because he clearly challenges her to face her fears and e...

As I shed an old me And close some chapters forever I stare at the blank page and wonder What should I begin here The empty spaces The hollowness The rawness of my self Makes me me That one true self I had never been able to be I know I will stumble I know I will fall I know I will make mistakes But walk I must Walk the line With courage and faith within And along the way I will find everything I truly ever deserved A new beginning I am writing now And I am writing it only with love.