Posts in category: personal
Of Love, Lemons, and the Games We Play
What does a fifty-year-old economics paper about defective used cars have to do with modern dating? Quite a lot, apparently. When nobody can tell sincerity from pretence, trust becomes expensive, honesty starts to feel like a liability, and even people looking for genuine connections learn to play games they never...
Of love and timing
When Love finds you, it's seldom at your best. Rather, it happens upon you at your worst - when you've lost all faith in yourself and your confidence lies tattered in a thousand scraps. It finds you to patiently put those pieces back, one after the other, painstakingly. It finds...
Of new year resolutions (and lack thereof)
Come the last few weeks of December every year and we are faced with a deluge of “new year resolutions” - promises to keep and targets to attain in the upcoming three hundred and sixty five days or so. The utility or veracity of such resolutions is often questioned, especially...
Inspiration
We spend our life in search of inspiration. But inspiration is not something that adheres to a schedule, or a deadline, or a timeframe. Inspiration is that idea gnawing at the back of your head at three am in the morning, which makes you push back the sheets, climb out...
Estrangement
Every time someone leaves, they take with them a piece of you. And leave behind a hollow you, a void that you learn to unsee with time, but a void nonetheless. Living with the fact that it’s over is the hardest. People you once loved with all your heart, people...