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To aim for milestones is To aim for failures A milestone makes The destination important Rather than the journey Not having milestones Is no fun either For the journey won’t Begin in first place One ends up in Kierkegaard’s famous quote Have a milestone Not have a milestone You’ll regret it anyways

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Curiosity blooms from The roots of Will to live How does some Have the will While others don’t? Shouldn’t it be Inherent in everyone Given evolution & all Or is it Nature’s way to Show that not Everything is a given Some are worth Struggling for such As this will

To see or not to see

Do people see What’s out there As it is, or People see what They want to If it’s latter then Does it tell More about people Or about the world? If everything out There is horrid What’s wrong in people Choosing what they’d Like to see One would better make Peace with it

Citadel

Citadels surveil & protect One builds inner citadel And surveils oneself To stay grounded And protects oneself From becoming stupid But constant surveilling Causes ceaseless tremors And continuous protection Makes one ignoramus The very causes Leading to inner citadels Get defeated by the citadels Citadels or not, this Indifferent life’s Sisyphean venture.

Stories

Stories that one tells To oneself are influential The origin for these – Is it the upbringing? Is it the environment? Is it the media? Is it the peer group? Is it the arts, or Is it the self Through its relentless thinking Makes up own stories? Within or without Stories are influential

Barriers

Hard to break barriers One doesn’t know about Harder to break barriers One knows well about Those one built oneself Over many years Knowingly sometimes Unknowingly other times Influenced by million factors All slicing the self By thousand cuts Forcing one build barriers To protect what’s left Of the desperate self Only to realize barriers […]

Isolation

Isolation is needed sometimes To isolate oneself once a while, helps – To free oneself from humdrums To reconnect with solitude To question the prevalent absurdity To stay from the maddened “others” To hold on to the dwindling sanity Isolation is good in small doses Just as everything else In this indifferent existence

Shame – A Luxury

“Shame is a luxury” Said a movie character Come to think of it It’s indeed true One’s feeling of shame Dictated mostly by society And some in that society Cannot afford to feel ashamed, yet A society that pounces – On the vulnerable & misfortunate ones That does nothing to Alleviate their situations It’s the […]

Flight or Fight

Sometimes innocuous questions Lead to unintended consequences Sometimes well intentioned suggestions Interpreted as uninvited meddling Sometimes well thought out actions Result in grave situations Life has its own ways, irreverent About one’s intentions The question becomes Should one go Into the shadows, or Should one go Running to centre stage?

Chances

Chances one takes are As unimportant as chances One doesn’t take For taken chances could Very well end in failures While not taken chances Could’ve ended up successful Knowing a potential success existed Is more comforting than a Proven failure that depresses Take chances or not take chances One will be no better than In […]