Comfort in the middle of Chaos

 Finding comfort in the middle of chaos...that's how I would like to remember the historic year gone by.

Tears of Joy!

A special day with a wonderful news!
Someone once said that he was so proud of me and today I am so proud of you :-)
Happy 17th! :-)

Change

Surprises, let downs, shocking instances, happy memories and finally finding comfort and peace. Something that I had always been looking for a long long time.
It's so strange that through the ebbs and the flows, all the days look just the same and you wonder if life is changing at all!
But when you look back at that one complete year, the whole year in totality, you collect all these evanescent and ephemeral things into a much larger story, the bigger scheme of things and realize that so much has changed. And in the process, you have changed and aged :)

2019 - Visit to Paradise :)

You beauty! Thank you for making 2019 a memorable year.

How do you know?

How do you know if its love or almost love or somewhat like love or everything but love or something much more than love?

Is it the capricious heart or just a question of time? 
Maybe both are true.

Maybe its not to be known or maybe its one step at a time.
How do you know that you know? 

Ignorance was Bliss!

Those days when my core beliefs get shaken. When I start questioning the laws of nature. When I start re looking for the meaning of life. When reality hits home and hard. And all my imagination comes crushing down.

Those days when it feels that ignorance was bliss. So much bliss, and now that it's gone, I will be tainted for life. But was I even right?

Who decides right or wrong? The one or no one. Or maybe the jury is also bygone.

As I suffer from this Judas kiss, I wish I could return to those ignorant days of bliss!

Mid-Week Reading

Q: How do you know when you really love someone?
A: Sometimes, you don't know.

Musings from Sunday Reading

Perhaps it is true that, for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever eighteen.

Coz life is full of surprises! :D

Because life is full of unexpected surprises
Because nothing comes easy
Because nothing is impossible
Because in the end, it will all even out
And because dreams do come true!

Cincinnati and Washington DC, I loved you both!
Hope we meet soon again and for a much longer time :)

Special Day

Coz you are so special, your birthday marks a special day for me! Happy 16th Adi!!

China Chimes #latepost

When I look back at this year, I picture myself running, jumping, panting, pushing, making more than the 60 seconds of distance run, all this to enter the forbidden city before it closes its gates again. The wonder that proves true to its name.

This day has marked the highlight of 2018 for me, the day when I climbed the Great Wall, rushed through the picturesque Ming Tombs (my favorite), entered the forbidden city (after the maddening run, Of course!) and said Hello to China in so many different ways.

One the best and most adventurous trips ever! 

4 year later...

Adi & Aru! You have made us all proud.

Long Lost Soul

I am holding up, not so strongly but still, I am holding up to fight a sudden bout of painful illness, to save myself from crushing under this tornado. It’s like standing on the edge of the cliff against a strong wind blowing to make me fall. It’s not love, it’s not lust, it’s not infatuation.

It’s like peeking into someone’s soul, unraveling it bit by bit and realizing with each revelation how much I adore it. The deep dungeons of mind and heart and beyond. How much I care for it. But still. It’s also realizing the pain I feel for that troubled soul and the pity I feel for mine. I know the souls cannot be saved, both his and mine.

I do random things to fill up time and space. Measure 90 ml of water, go for a standup comedy show, apply for a new credit card, buy things I will never use, make pointless presentations and meet uninteresting strangers.

I cry, not out of sorrow or helplessness.  I cry to stray, to stand at the edge of the cliff for some more time before I walk away. 

Sunday Not So Sonnet

Did I ever tell you you're my hero?
You're everything, everything I wish I could be.
Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle,
For you were the wind beneath my wings,
'cause you are and will always be the wind beneath my wings.

Laurels of Lanka Land

Because every travel teaches you something and leaves some memories etched forever...
Because every travel leaves you more independent, more accomplished and more humbled...

To lavish stays, hoppers to my rescue, mangroves & boat rides, first ever snorkeling, king coconuts & tropical fruits on beach side, the dream landscape garden & architectural wonders, budget shopping and the most amazing streets of Galle! Sri Lanka - Check!

Another one goes by..

An ordinary year with extra-ordinary milestone moments..

Voila!

The Opal Moment

~Weekend Song on Repeat~

Well you only need the light when it's burning low
Only miss the sun when it starts to snow

Staring at the bottom of your glass
Hoping one day you'll make a dream last
But dreams come slow and they go so fast

Only know you've been high when you're feeling low
Only hate the road when you're missin' home

Staring at the ceiling in the dark
Same old empty feeling in your heart
'Cause love comes slow and it goes so fast

A Book Crawl to Remember

"In the beginning there was only one word, the word was with God, the word was God"

"We are the stories we tell ourselves"

The Book Room | Goobe's Book Republic | Blossom Book Store | The Bookworm | Higginbothams| Gangarams Book Bureau | Select Book Shop

Not-so-Nawaabi or Is It?

Me: After a week long excursion, all I gotta post is a view from the hotel window!! :(

His blog: Taste this‘The best travel is not about seeing a list of monuments, museums and landscapes. The best travel is about people, and if you travel well it is people that you are going to remember most. People that are strange, unique, foreign, similar, friendly, nice, hospitable, loving, kind, rude, outrageous, and normal. These will be the memories and experiences that stay with you forever, that no postcard can ever reproduce. 

How True. Hyderabad you have been an experience of a kind.