Define Yourself

Your work doesn’t define youNeither your relationshipYour wealth doesn’t define youNeither your social statusYour success doesn’t define youNeither your failureYour birth doesn’t define youNeither your deathYour virtues don’t define youNeither your vicesIf these don’t, then what would?We spend our lives trying to figure outOnly to realize it’s absurdity in the end.

(In) Authenticity

We all go around fakingLaughing at the authenticAuthenticity scares usFalsity consoles us We think we’re betterOur true self knows we’re notWe think we’re wiserOur intelligence knows we’re not We go around signalling virtuesLonging for our ego’s rescueWhen reality hits usOur Naked self terrifies us

Stages of Life

You start as an idealistYou slowly turn to a realistYou change a bit to become pessimistYou go on to be a cynicOnly to end up as a misanthropist You start as a theistYou try become a rationalistYou wish to be a romanticistYou badly want to be an existentialistOnly to end up as a Nihilist You […]

Present counsels past

Wish my 18 years old knew all these.

Conundrums – II

You read more, but you understand less You dream more, but you pursue less You say more, but you mean less You think more, but you do less You have more, but you feel less You remember more, but you process less You travel more, but you explore less You pretend more, but you feel […]

La memoria del agua – Movie insight

Once a while, you see a movie that throws you off guard. It shines light on aspects of life, which you have never thought of. I recently watched a Spanish movie, “La memoria del agua (The memories of water)” in Netflix. If you’re planning to watch it, please stop reading this article right now. If […]

Un examined life a better life?

Blessed are those souls, who from a very young age know what they want to do with their lives. Blessed too are those souls, who never think about what they want to do with their lives. Cursed are those souls, who think about this question often, but don’t have a single concrete answer to this […]

An ode to Death

Fugacious life

Superior being

An attempt to write about a pigeon, which sat on the railway track unafraid.

Existence

A poem on life’s absurdity largely inspired by Camus’s writings