When Silence Speaks...

Have you ever been happy for no reason? What an amazing day. I mean, I am usually in a good mood, but today was an exception. I was ecstatic and for absolutely no reason at all. It was what I call being shamelessly happy. I thought it was the usual phase of few mins or an hour, it will pass. But I have been hopelessly happy this whole day. I am up since 8 AM and I have not stopped smiling since. I went for a walk this evening, about 7 miles and I have been hopping, swaying and dancing all the way, bobbing my head side to side, grinning at times. I got a few stares, but who cares! I did try to stay serious and composed for first 5 mins of my walk but I couldn't, so I gave up. During the walk I kept thinking why? Why was I so happy after all? The whole day? But then I thought why should I think so much? One must search reasons for sadness, not for happiness. I just said to myself, screw it, you are happy and that's all that matters, enjoy it.  ...

I have this habit of reading the reviews on a book AFTER I finish reading the book. I don't want reviews to influence my take on the book, so I avoid the gossips before I get to finish the book. The comments on this book and the movie based on this book, disturbed me. I am not saying people should like this book. There are so many books with raving 5 star reviews, that I fail to connect with, and end up giving 1 star. It's fairly normal, some people connect to a story, some don't. You didn't like a story or plot, you didn't find characters convincing, you didn't connect to the story etc..etc.. but that should be it. It shouldn't be because you are prejudiced - racially, sexually, religiously, politically etc..etc..it should be purely objective as a reader. "The Help" is about African Americans working in white households in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early 1960s. It's told primarily from the first-person perspectives of three women: Aibi...

You know why love is weird? Because once you love someone, you will always love them. You can break each other's hearts, but you will never come to hate someone you truly love. Whether it's platonic friendship or familial bonds or intense romantic love; you will eventually know whether you truly loved that person ever.  It's easy to showcase each other's love to the world, wrap it up, put a neat bow tie on it and display it on social media. But only when that love is tested in time, some come through and others fail.  It's not whether the named relationship stands, that defines success of love.  There are so many relations that exist for decades with no love in them. Age of a relation is not always a measure of love; that's measure of commitment, respect and many other things but not wild love which honestly is immeasurable. When in love, you don't compete. There's nothing called winning or losing in love. It's all in, you don't hold back your ca...

An absolutely delicious novel of which I savoured every single page.  After "A man called Ove by Fredrick Backman", this is the first time that I could not stop smiling throughout my read, and trust me you don't get to experience that quite often. So, thank you Elizabeth Gilbert for such an entertaining novel. Vivian moris is the woman I fell in love with along with dozen other characters. Such a colorful novel, and the casual manner in which it's delivered, did the perfect trick. Okay, let me back up a bit. Starting with Vivian's entry into New York back in 1940s, this is how she explains it to Angela, " But this is a city that gets born anew in the fresh eyes of every young person who arrives here for the first time. So that city, that place—newly created for my eyes only—will never exist again. It is preserved forever in my memory like an orchid trapped in a paperweight. That city will always be my perfect New York. " And that is exactly how I felt wh...

Life is not always pretty. Life is almost always filled with mundane chores, boring days, distasteful memories, practical choices etc..etc.. You pretty much dislike or not care for 9 out of 10 people you meet. You feel like the whole day has passed without even realizing it. Everyone's life sucks. Stop thinking that someone else's life is easier, better, happier than yours.  Nobody's life is perfect.  Nobody's life is beautiful. However, what does matter is how we live our mundane uninteresting life. It's when someone has a better perspective towards life, they seem happier. They make life look easier. When they say, smile is the most beautiful make-up one can wear, it holds true for one's outlook on life too. Life is crude and unpredictable. But if we open our arms and breathe in, it just becomes an enjoyable sweet essence. A free spirited, happy, wandering, single, crazy person like me also has her share of boredom or problems or challenges. It's how I dea...