Few weeks ago, I went to a pub with a friend after office hours, a nice hangout place, not very occupied, slow music and an extremely relaxed environment. The waiter came up to take our orders, I read his name tag, addressed him by his first name, chatted with him, learned a little bit about
While pursuit of love may feel frivolous for most of us trying to cope up with various disasters happening around us such as wars, famine, floods, but in my opinion, we need a romantic relationship to help cope up. Struggles of life are different for different people and since Covid, people have started to open
“Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead” From the song, “Someone like you” by Adele Hate is an emotion that I was not born with. I never learned to hate someone, I have felt disappointment, sadness, anger, frustration but never hate. People are stupid and selfish but it is who they are
There is a homeless, lonely woman, who sleeps under the bridge on a pavement at a traffic signal. For the last 5 years, I have been seeing her, sitting at the same spot, sometimes sleeping, sometimes talking with someone. She has a small cloth bundle with her own things, a mat to sleep in and
“I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.” ― Mark Twain Have you ever sat outside a doctor’s office (especially a dentist) and imagined the pain that is about to come and come out feeling that your fear of pain was unwarranted? I have, numerous times, no actually all
“Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.” ― Thomas Stephen Szasz This world is going bonkers and not because mother nature has finally given up on us and showing her wrath, it’s because the insanity of humans has turned a perfectly working world into a chaotic mess and there is nothing that
I make friends easily! Some find it weird, but I can walk up to a group of strangers and start conversation from the most bizarre and random topics, engaging enough to walk out with either their phone number or a follow on Instagram. I do talk a lot, sometimes to an obnoxiously annoying level that
I’m not someone who wears makeup, nothing religious or new age radicalism, I just never could do it right and so I left it all together (barring my Kajal routine that I cannot do without). However, last weekend, I tagged along with a friend who wanted to buy makeup – she is one of the
I have a friend who was having issues with her marriage, so as a couple they decided to see a marriage counselor. Both were extremely anxious as to what secrets would be revealed in front of the counselor but to their surprise, the first thing that she asked was “how often do you have sex?”
I love Japanese fiction. A woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe, I happened to pick this book at random and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. A thoughtful book about existence, short read but it goes at its own pace. The main character of the book, a schoolteacher with a
