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Yet another year


When everything seems to be in place but yet it doesn’t feel that way.

When the heart is always wandering but even the destination finds it hard to believe that you could wander.

When there is not a bit of emotional energy you have for yourself and yet you squeeze out all that is left for people around.

When you are honest and say uncomfortable things only so as to make the future comfortable but all you’re left with is a judgmental sigh.

When we are busy making assumptions and judgement without realizing that you are being judged too.
When you give your everything professionally but stingy ones on the other side dismiss it over convenient excuses.

When you say “Me too” and people around dismiss it by just saying “oh you too”.

When you’re constantly watching series and movies on digital platforms which of course are so brilliantly made, but you wonder why it is all about killing, dying, evil & fantasy – more like the end of something is near.

When we’re so comfortable sitting at home and getting things to your doorstep and not realizing how less productive we’re becoming and how fast our clock is ticking.

When there are so many industrial and infrastructural developments around and it doesn’t strike us that mostly our grand kids won’t have this blissful life.

When are so convinced that to get somewhere in life we have to choose the difficult path and somehow dismiss the beauty of simpler ones.

When material luxury is what we chase but we are barely stable emotionally.

When we are so comfortable with all the cabs around and don’t realize that eventually we are letting others take the driver’s seat of our life as well.

When everything around feels like an accomplishment and the step forward but you are left wondering if it actually is.

When everything seems to be in place but yet it doesn’t feel that way.

And here we are living despite it all. Yet another year down and ready to take over the next.

May we all have a 2019 that keeps us soft enough to offer life and tough enough to not drown it away.









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