When Silence Speaks...

Bidding farewell to another year, another 365 days spent out of my life's account.  This year went fast, although quite a number of days rather months were very slow; painfully slow. But yet an eventful year, with a lot of high tides; well I sailed through just fine; like every other years that passed by.  It's amazing how at a given moment you always feel you are shattered within or it's just way too much to handle. But things fall in place seemingly without effort; yet in the process you would have drained out so much that you feel there is no bit of strength left to even live another second. But what the heck, we survive and not only that we come out stronger than before.  I learnt a lot this year, about myself, about people, about the rights and wrongs, about law, about betrayal, about cowards, about good luck, about simple happiness and about many other things. This year I continued my painting, poetry, running, boxing, hiking, driving. What I did new this ye

Have you ever felt the helplessness when you have to pay for someone else's mistake? That anger, that frustration - it's a feeling one can't put to words. A kind of suffocation. When you are being punished and you go through the punishment, but you really don't know what your mistake was? I don't mind making my mistakes, and burning my hands during the course of it. But what I cannot handle is to pay for some coward's mistake. Well the irony of life is, you will have to do it. So you give it the name of fate - things that you cannot control falls into the boundary of that someone who oversees everyone.  At times I wonder, what's the meaning of all these events that have taken place in my life. Why what happened ever happen if it was to end up in a phase as it is today? You do your best to take right decisions; and because you are not smart enough to see through people's mask; your decisions fire back on you very harshly. But truly friends, I s

अरमानों का गला घुटते कभी देखा है तुमने  न सिसकियो की आवाज़ आती है  न घुटन की तड़प दिखती है  जनाज़ा ज़रूर उठता है उसकी इस दुनिया से  पर इतनी ख़ामोशी से की उसके जाने के गम में कभी मैखाने में तो कभी किसी हंसी के पीछे बेहते है आंसू !!  -सरिता  Dated - 19th Dec 2016

This one won't be a long post. It's just a bookmark to separate an end of another chapter of my life and beginning of a new one. I am a person who has evolved a lot over last few years; and one of the trait attributed to this evolution is my attitude of celebrating life. What happened today, does not deserve to be a milestone in my life. But it definitely does deserve a slot in my memory box; for what it's worth; it reinforced my belief in self, and appreciate my personality.  When I shared this with a friend (who I am thankful to for many other things in different phases of my life); he made a statement during the conversation; which I have captioned as my post title.  Courtesy - Google Images Yes. I have the  freedom  of living this moment independently. I have the freedom of expressing my independence. I have the luxury of enjoying this freedom of my independence. Yes, as my friend rightly stated; I have the freedom of independence. And, like eve

I am sure, each one of us would have encountered a situation atleast once in our lifetime, when you find something you lost a while back! You might have searched for it like crazy and found it or left hope of finding it at all and all of sudden one day you find - just like that. That feeling of finding something you lost - is that plain happiness you can't explain. I don't lose things; almost never. So when, even once in a blue moon, I do lose something; it troubles me a lot; like a lot!! It's not the money that I care for; It's most of the time; an ego of how can I misplace or lose something; or otherwise sadness of losing something invaluable like an old photo or old letter ; so on. Today was one such day.  I went to gas station, swiped my card and very confidently placed the wallet on the front hood of my jeep tucked under the wiper's base on  the driver's side. Filled the gas, boarded my Jeep, and drove off. While placing the wallet on the hood; I r