Indelible Musings

How many times have you been stuck in the middle of somewhere? Unable to decide, which way to go? What to choose? If chosen, whether the decision was correct in all aspects or was it merely an answer to the millions of questions popping in your head. Guess, everyone has their own way of looking at things. What might be an easier decision for you, might turn out to be a difficult one for someone close or related to you. Often, while deciding on these choices, we tend to forget the things that we are surrounded with. We forget that had it not been for the decisions we have been taking till now, our present wouldn't have looked the way it is. Our present looms under the shadows of the past thereby affecting the future. As the saying goes, "Karmanye Waadhika Raste Maa Faleshu Kadachana" , to translate in English, Keep working hard without worrying about the result. There can be no short cut to hard-work. If you work hard, results will automatically appear and well enough....

I was never like this, she thought But then what made me be so, she wondered If it was not for my own sake, she asked Why would have I done so, she said. I was never so, she reiterated But you made me think from your perspective, she pondered I should have listened to my heart, she grieved Not that I do not have time to change, she wondered I shall introspect because I need to, or else, I shall repent, she thought. I hear screams and laughs, I dare not ask why, she shivered But what if I dared, Will that be against your law? she wondered Her mind wandered from one to another thought, Yet she could not conclude. I was never like this, she thought I grew up on positive thoughts, I groomed myself as per my wish, she said How could I let go of my own self? For I had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, she pondered. Here I am yet again, alone Where I was, Where I shall always be Yet, I long for that one moment When I could say, Happiness is not beyond my expectati...

You don't need anyone to tell you to write. But more often than not, there is something in the mind that pops up and we end up writing about it. It can be anything. From a poetry, to a travel writing, to a book review, to opinions and comments, and so and so forth. There have been times when I have read a piece, a news, an article, a book, and have felt writing what I personally feel about the topics written or discussed in the read matter. But, there is something that resists me from writing that down! With the social media becoming so advanced that an 400 word article can be posted in merely two or three lines as a Facebook status or Tweet, the days when you actually sat down by the window side, sipped through a cuppa coffee and poured your heart out in a diary or a laptop, seem long gone. May be not for many. Off late, I have been reading a few blogs where the author has written about what s/he feels about something that is bothering him/her personally. By reading those blogs,...