I am tired. In the spaces between my heartbeats I find moments of silence anchored by shadows to the breath of every dawn, but this is before the daytime expels sunrise’s misty serenity and thrusts[…]
Tag: loss
Twelve – Polished Personal
When I was twelve, my father became suicidal. He used to run fiercely to the filthy train station of Andheri, Mumbai in the hopes of killing himself. He used to steal bottles of unknown medicines[…]
Lost
I still remember the moment when my eyes first peered into yours. They were like oceans – though they were nowhere close to blue – and I could’ve swum for an eternity in them. They captivated me from[…]
Patterns We Follow and Choices That Enlighten ~ Polished Personal
When grief or hardship assaults us, we as humans fall. In the face of any difficulty, our instincts are to despair, to treat the situation as incurable, and to buy into self-pity. But the human[…]
His Dearest Victory
The following is a short story inspired from an excerpt from the memoir Sergeant Nibley, Ph.D by Alex Nibley: “The father was holding the hand of a boy about 10 years old and speaking to him[…]
Death In Society
It was raining that day. In the rain, stood a girl, standing in front of a graveyard. Her eyes were red after having what could have been thousands of tears flow through them; her face[…]
My Shattered Heart
The beginning. For 9 years we were nothing but classmates who were constantly placed in the same classes together, but had no interaction. We both knew who each other were, but we never spoke. It was that[…]
Two Simple Words
Who would’ve known that two simple words could hold such power, such depth, such misery? Two simple words which didn’t merely slip from the surface of your tongue, which didn’t merely linger on your lips.[…]