Bus Chronicles – Non Stop Chatter
I think I am going to start writing about my bus rides. There is always something happening. Sometimes funny, sometimes irritating, sometimes just plain strange. Yesterday night, I missed my bus by literally a minute. The next one was 31 minutes away. So I stood there wondering whether I should just take a cab or
Do you fear darkness?
Have you ever listened to the sound of darkness, when everything is quiet and somehow everything becomes so much clearer? When the noise of the day has finally stopped and you can hear things you normally don’t notice. When even the ugly buildings look pretty because their cracked walls are masked in the darkness, and
Why is it that being simple is not so simple?
I’ve been thinking about something lately, something that feels small, almost invisible, yet strangely heavy. Why is it that being simple is not so simple? I was reading The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai, and a quiet exchange between the characters stayed with me. It wasn’t dramatic or philosophical in an obvious
Why Hate Feels Stronger Than Love?
“Until death do us apart.” We love the sound of it. It signifies a lifelong commitment to someone, a promise meant to last until our final breath. It’s comforting to believe we can find someone to love forever, especially when we’re taught that love is the most powerful emotion of all. Love is supposed to
The Relationship I Spent My Life Searching For
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been searching for a certain kind of relationship, one where I’m heard, where I don’t disappear behind someone else’s needs, where my presence feels meaningful. I never cared about the things people often chase: money, looks, social status. None of that ever defined love for me. What
What is love? I finally got it!
When people talk about love, they often describe it in grand gestures: fireworks, butterflies, passion that sweeps you off your feet. And while that can be beautiful, it’s not the whole story. Love, at its deepest level, is not always about intensity. After searching for an answer for what feels like forever, I’ve finally understood
From Amen to Armageddon: Let’s Stay Away from Religion When Meeting Friends
Ah, friends – Set of humans we choose to tolerate outside of our immediate family. They’re the ones we share Instagram reels with, complain about work to, and in my case mostly ask deep, philosophical questions like: “How would you feel if you metamorphosed into a giant spider like the one in the story by
Connected, But Not Close: Instant Modern Love
In my dating time, we would fight over whose turn it was to do the cooking or dishes. But these days, I see young couples supposedly in love fight over the last time someone was online, the angle of an Instagram selfie, or why a message was read (blue ticked!) but not replied to. I was recently sitting