Tag: happiness

Now Is The Time

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Dreams of a lifetime,
Realised or ruptured, in a day.

Try all we might,
This time won’t stay,

So, just live, laugh, love,
This is the moment to play.

We won’t be us tomorrow,
Let’s not let life get away.

– Ehsaas

From the archives, dusted and refurbished.. šŸ˜…

Wrote this short poem some time ago, on a day when I was feeling particularly excited and full of energy. Regular readers of this blog would realize that’s not how most days go with me. I guess that’s why I never felt like sharing this one earlier. But today I was like, meh. I guess a writer is like an actor. We don’t necessarily have to be the person the words talk about. Words are an idea, a feeling that deserves to fly free. Why chain them down to be about one person, their limitations, and situations?

Anyway, hope you like it. Till next time.. šŸ˜Š

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Credits: Poem by yours truly. Pic created with Canva.

Scared To Be Happy

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ā€œIā€™m scared to be happy.ā€

I had heard variations of this in the movies. Didnā€™t think it was ridiculous, but it never really touched or connected with anything either. Until now.

The past few months have been disappointing. I know I have my family, my health, a job, a house, food on the table – all that one could need to survive, or even thrive. I know that I should be grateful for what I have, as most of the people in the world donā€™t even have half of those things. And I am.

Itā€™s just that ā€œneedsā€ and ā€œwantsā€ are different beasts. And the things that Iā€™ve been really wanting and hoping for, have not been happening, while things that I was not expecting, or looking forward to, have been.Ā 

So, despite all that I have, Iā€™ve been staring disappointment in the face one day after the other – at work, in personal relationships, finance, health – you name it.Ā 

There have been moments of joy too. But overall, I havenā€™t been having the best of times these past few months.Ā 

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The Importance Of Life’s “Center”

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Recently, I was the victim of one of lifeā€™s conspiracies to teach me a lesson. And although I had heard others talk about that lesson before, I had never fully realized its value and wisdom until life shoved it in my face.

And that lesson was the importance of finding a ā€œcenterā€ in my life.

By ā€œcenterā€ I mean something that one would love to be associated with in whatever way they can. It can be the people in oneā€™s life, the work they do, an activity they like to engage in, or even something as abstract as a thought. The key thing is that nothing about the ā€œcenterā€ feels like an inconvenience; just the mere thought of it should be able to bring one immediate calm and happiness.

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