Posts tagged: personal
On reclaiming the lost art of long-form prose
Whatever happened to long-form prose? In this era of social media, where status updates and 140-character tweets dominate our attention spans, the art of writing at length seems to be fading into obscurity. It's a trend that's been happening for years, as brevity has become the preferred mode of communication...
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...
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...