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A summer in Pictures - III
A little must also be said about (and shown from) the two least exciting weeks of my Eurotrip - the French Riviera, Venice and Rome. Alright, the French Riviera was really pretty, I met some great people too. Venice had amazing seafood. My grouse is entirely against Rome. I hated it the first time I visited it four years ago, and I guess neither of ( Read more... ) -
A summer in Pictures - II
Sometime in January, while trying to get an internship in France (how? the old Indian way, I heard your dad works in….), I had an epiphany. I had a history of being ambitious and resourceful behind me and a lifetime of being ambitious and productive ahead. For one summer, could I not try and be something else? Spend a summer not building bridges ( Read more... ) -
Salut mes amis
When you come back home after three months, it's almost like you never went away at all. The last 12 weeks now seem like a blur, a distant dream. A good dream or a bad dream? A dry spell or a wet dream? I can't say. I can just say that the last few months have prepped me up to live again ( Read more... ) -
The Swingers
I have lost track of the number of times in the last two months that I have said or thought, I am so messed upOn the other hand, I have also lost count of the number of times I thought I have never been happier ( Read more... ) -
Hit and miss
There's a place for us, you know the movie song.
When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong...
- Romeo and Juliet, Dire Straits
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Life sometimes puts you in really sticky situations. In Psychology 101, we learned that this dilemma is called conflict. There are several types of conflict: avoidance-avoidance conflict, approach- ( Read more... ) -
Sole searching
I thought I was looking for Michael.
I was, in fact, letting go of Julia.We all look for big signs and little epiphanies to make it easier to live with quotidian truths ( Read more... ) -
Return
In the words of Günter Grass, to be human is to be curious, childlike, complex and immoral.
Having come to terms with my humanness, I am back. -
Au revoir
Now that I have lost everything that I had - hope, control, love, dignity and you - I have nothing to offer. Since you won't take my word, I give you my words.
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Happy domesticity
Sometimes, your life resembles you favourite TV show, and you think to yourself, damn, this wasn't even my favourite episode.
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You idiot you called it upon yourself. No tape, no glue ( Read more... )
