Fear of Living

People fear not just of dying But they fear more of living As living entails – facing failures Dealing with uncertainties Coming to terms with the past Accepting one’s mediocrity and shortcomings Not knowing if one should yield to or fight The assured vicissitudes of life Above all – the certainty of eventual death It’s […]

Fear of the Real or the Abstract?

Which is more scary? Losing Freedom or Dying? Death is a given for every one, unlike Freedom which is precious, hence People die fighting for freedom However, if one were given a choice To choose between no freedom and death Most people would choose the former They give up on the precious abstract Because of […]

Death of a tree

It was a strange feeling To witness the death of a tree There it was a standing giant An Abode for birds and A companion for lonely souls Reminding one of his insignificance By its mere existence Out of the blue came Men with power axe Chopping the tree down Making the birds refugees Taking […]

Carrying our cross

The world celebrates The One Who carried the cross on behalf of Human kind, yet there are countless People who carry their crosses non-stop The One was lucky to have endured the Suffering for a short time, but these others Have no end to their sufferings in sight Just like the case of The One, […]

Writing – II

Why do people write? To flush out their thoughts To put in words their observations To make a statement To feel superior, or To reaffirm their inconsequence Now with all these “AI”s Vomiting sentences at rapid pace, and People quenching their thirst by drinking it Why should one write? Maybe, it is an act of […]

Visibility

Some fighting to become visible While some fighting to become invisible Some shine light on the invisibles While some turn off the light of the visible Some shout their lungs out to become visible While others curl within themselves to be invisible People tend to believe in the eternal invisible being But not the ones […]

Movie Theater

The last remaining public square The only place for those souls Who wish to silently share a experience Not bound by any real bonds, but connected Just by the defiance to the solitary confinement Of watching movie alone at home Inside the dark space There exists a subterranean solidarity Pregnant with umpteen possibilities When everything […]

Shame

When does one feel ashamed? Or rather why does one feel ashamed? If one lives outside of social norms Can one be ashamed of anything? Who defines what’s shameful? When one feels ashamed of one’s actions Does this feeling come from within? If yes, is it a basic feeling in us? How would a society […]

Randomness

Randomness disturbs order And people hate disorder Yet they welcome some randomness That comforts them, positively surprises them But they detest other randomness That makes them feel odd, feel excluded The same phenomenon yielding different responses Just like every other thing in this thing called “existence” How should one deal with randomness then? Should one […]

Forgiveness

Is Forgiveness a strength or weakness? Does it come from a place of understanding Or from a place of moral superiority? Or, Is it a sign of repression? Does it matter who forgives whom? Does it lead to peace and quiet, to The one who is forgiving? What about ones who are forgiven? Would forgiveness […]