Numb

Everything and everyone try to numb you A numb being is easy to control, as A numb being isolates itself A numb being merely consumes A numb being resigns before starting A numb being just floats To resist becoming numb is valor For one risks destroying one’s illusions When acting with courage Paradoxically actively embracing […]

Escape

To escape is an art Escape the mundane existence By going after something worthwhile Escape the endless busyness By stopping and not thinking about anything Escape the useless rat race By carving out your own path Escape the crippling conventions By living outside of them Escape the mortal fear By embracing your finitude

Comfort

Comfort is underrated One cannot think well When one is drowning in discomfort One cannot be one’s own self When one is surrounded by outside noises One cannot be generous When one is interred in poverty One cannot be empathetic When one lives in a psychotic society One cannot face one’s demise tranquilly When one […]

Disappointments

Disappointments are good It shows you cared for something And you expected something It shows you still believe in free will And you believe in goodness of others It shows you still actively engage with life And you want to make it count It shows you still have hope And that you’re willing to put […]

Trivial

Make everything trivial From the grand successes To utter failures From the public embarrassments To private guilt From the overwhelming sadness To the unbridled joy From the melancholy To the cheeriness From the birth of a baby To the death of self Make everything trivial If not, you would end up miserable

Always Think

Always : Think about others But don’t ever think What others think of you Think about your thinkings But never let that Paralyze your actions Think about “what ifs” But don’t ever let that Be your coping mechanism Think about “if onlys” But do that only At your joyous moments (if you’ve one) Think about […]

Choices

Are we spoiled by choices, or Are we deprived of choices? The choices we believe to be choices Are they really choices, or Are they mere illusions giving us a False sense of power? If we are deprived of choices What more choices do we need? Even if we were given multitudes of choices Won’t […]

Inability

Inability to feel satisfied Makes one miserable Inability to empathize Makes one insupportable Inability to stand for something Makes one fragile Inability to listen to inner voice Makes one incorrigible Inability to accept one’s mortality Makes one insufferable

Children

Why do people bring Children into this monstrous world? They inherit their parents’ genes Along with their illness & beliefs The kids had to struggle To break free of the enforced beliefs Which is a mammoth task in this universe (Most) Parents try not to ruin their kids But they end up doing it anyways […]

Why do you?

Why do you pay someone? For their actions or the benefits That you would reap out of their actions? Why do you thank someone? For their help or the way You would feel for thanking them? Why do you get angry at someone? For their (in)actions or the Effects of their (in)actions on you? Why […]