The Escape

If you could travel again,
Where would you find your escape?
Quarantined at home, we’re all stuck,
But right now it’s the safest space.

If you could go out again,
Where would you go?
To buy some more groceries,
Or to meet your fellows?

If you could travel to outer space,
Would you observe the healing of Ozone?
Or rather would you visit your own mind,
To understand how much you’ve grown.

If you could travel in time,
Would you go alone?
Would you take someone along,
So you’re not the only one gone?

De-Bugging Life

Once upon a time,
Before the cities were bursting at the seams,
Through the open land,
Glided a bug.
“Huh! It’s just a bug” you may think,
As it was a red ladybug,
Which are too common to spot.
But isn’t it something simple and common that gives the joy,
Because the things that are rare don’t satisfy,
They just catch your eye.
Sailing in the wind alone,
She saw two beetles walk along.
They saw her lone so offered to be friends,
Little did she know it was the beginning of an end.
Spent a great deal of time and had fun together,
But somethings were taking a toll.
“It’s nothing. Everything is fine.” she thought,
Unknown of what the future beholds.
Soon the beetles stopped associating with her,
Upset and perplexed she then asked,
“Did I do something wrong?”.
To that, the reply was “No! Everything is fine”,
Though they all knew the friendship had died.
Everything slowly faded away,
The beetles deserted her and went their way.
All alone again,
Flying and wandering from one flower to another,
She saw a pair of butterflies,
Thought “Oh! Maybe they are the one”.
Hesitant from the past,
Slowly approached the pair.
Their beauty and fame made her wonder,
“Will I be accepted or again looked over?”.
Before any words could further form in her mind,
They invited her to be a part of the kind.
“Is this real?” was her first hunch,
Yet she tagged on with them for lunch.
Felt different but pretentious sometimes,
She said to herself “But I do that at home all the time”.
Being the third wheel was becoming easy,
As that’s all she was in that friendship often.
One day she looked at herself in the mirror while enjoying with the butterflies,
To her dismay, it was just another mask.
Not knowing what to do,
Knowing the feeling of being alone too well,
She kept that secret inside.
What will happen to her and this friendship,
That we have yet to find!
Something was forgotten though,
Or maybe just ignored,
To steer clear of anymore hurt,
And the inevitable thought of “Am I good enough?”.
Another character has to enter,
Because what’s a story without some twist?
The ladybug has a true bug’s bond,
Bond of such a kind that the humans know very little about.
Every relation has its ups and downs,
But everything goes downhill when doubt comes around.
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we often might win.
Fearing to make an attempt,
Without much resistance,
She let the true bug leave the town.
Some time passed by pretending again,
The rest was spent alone,
Which finally rang a bell in her head,
It’s not that bad being on her own.
Started to embrace herself and her freedom,
Realized her judgments were clouded by doubt and fear,
Fear and doubt of not being “enough”.
At last, after all this time,
(Always!) loved and accepted her own unique self,
Now she understood what truly is true love.
With the newfound acceptance, she rose again,
Dusted off her relations with the ones who still were on her side,
Even though the true bug had left,
She never put the ladybug in her heart aside.
So here we are at the end,
But endings are new beginnings as well,
Like for the ladybug,
The world had opened up again!

Not a regular blog post!

Hey!
How are you?
How’s everything in your life going?
If you want to share it with someone, then “I’ll be there for you”. Just send an email or DM on Instagram or message on messenger.
Anyways, do you have a sibling?
If yes, then you definitely know what it is like to share your each and everything with someone else.
But if you don’t have one, well you’re not that lucky either.
So, just letting you know that this time it’s not like the other blogs that I’ve posted. For this blog, my brother and I wrote a poem together. Can you imagine that?? Ughhh… Now I have to share my writing with him too.
P. S. -> It was actually fun!
Nevertheless, you keep reading and sink into the poetry!

“Do I look fat?”

That night the dogs cried louder than every other day,

As if they saw someone coming to take the spirit away.

That night it was raining cats and dogs,

But you could still hear the mourning and applause.

As I heard the thumping on the floor above mine,

I was too scared to move, terrified far far away from the phone line.

But now I heard the footsteps coming down,

I could guess from the sound that they were leather brown.

Saw someone’s reflection through the window in the dark night,

On whom the dogs were barking because it was standing under very dim light.

The commotion didn’t stop but the sound was too loud of my heartbeat,

That everything became still and I could listen to thy* breath.

With a lump in my throat, I moved towards the door,

A maiden with a knife dripping in blood popped up with a roar.

I was startled by the shout and fell down on the ground,

Giving me a hand she asked if I’d like to know more but I wasn’t bound.

Yet hesitantly I said yes to that,

So she began by saying how the guy who lives upstairs is a load of crap.

While she was talking, the peace of my life was gone,

As she rambled on to tell me what was going on.

She told me how rudely he called her a cow,

So she stabbed him

Because it was too late to say sorry now.

I thought she was an egomaniac when she asked me if she looked “fat”,

But she turned out to be a psychopath when I unmindfully replied “just a tad”.

* { thy is the archaic form of ‘your’ }

Struggles with our own reflection

Hey everyone!

How are you all?

Sorry for not posting for so long. Got caught up in some work. Also, don’t forget to follow through email if you agree with what I’ve written.

Anyways, so today I woke up to a very strange conversation between my mom and our maid wherein according to our maid, her daughter won’t get a groom because she’s fat and dark-skinned too!

I was startled at this. I was like ” why so cruel with her God? Why?”

* being overdramatic *

*awkward silence *

Obviously, God has been really cruel with that poor little girl giving her a mom who thinks like this for her. But she cannot be completely blamed. This is all because of the standards for being ” beautiful” by our society.

But who is in this ” society “?

I know everyone has had this question at some point in their life. Well, you’ll be amazed to hear that it’s us only. All the people around the globe are in this so-called society. So, I wanna ask you all that

~ why do the girls who are not fair get offended when someone calls them ” kaali”?

~ if no-one says ” you’re very beautiful for a fair person” then why is it said that ” you’re really pretty for a dark-skinned person”?

~ why someone saying ” you are really fair” is taken as a compliment but someone saying ” you have a really dark complexion” is taken as an insult?

Isn’t all of this a reality for a major part of the world’s population? Because if it wasn’t the cosmetic industry would have lost its wrath to some healthy food brand and both men and women would have been told that there’s more than fair skin.

Also, did it ever occur to you that people whom we would have called “fat” starve themselves for days and the ones mocked as “skinny” sometimes eat way too much and end up in the hospitals just to get the ideal body shape?

So I say, don’t see yourself as fat or skinny as judged by people. Judge yourself BY yourself as healthy or unhealthy.

Some of my tips for a healthy lifestyle

~ always eat healthy food ( of course we have our cheat days)

~ drink at least 8 glasses of water every day

~ avoid alcohol

~ walk for at least 30 minutes after dinner

If you do all this, then let people say what they want to because you know that it’s your healthy shape which is the best body shape one could ever have.

Believe it or not but we all are at some level competing with one another to get the photoshopped body image that we see on magazine covers and billboards. Not only the girls, but boys too are also forced to have ideal body shapes. They want the perfectly chiseled bodies for which they solely survive on protein shakes.

Even the toys for kids portray unrealistic beauty norms which since the very tender age stick to their minds as the perfect ideals of us.

So, I think it’s the high time guys.

We need to learn to embrace ourselves.

Too cliché?

I know but it’s the truth and you’ll see that for yourself. Be who you are and not what the world wants you to be. Beauty shouldn’t be so easily defined. IT’S LIMITLESS. And it’s time we realize that love comes in all shapes and shades. It’s time we LOVE ALL SHAPES AND SHADES by being our own first lovers because WE DEFINITELY ARE MORE THAN OUR COLOUR, WEIGHT, AND SIZE.

Regrets of life or life of regrets?

What do you think your life is like?

Do you have regrets of life or has it turned into a life of regrets?

Do you regret not studying enough to get into a good college or not seizing the moments when you had the chance?

Do you regret not having the life you wished for due to lack of efforts or do you blame yourself for being in a miserable place?

Well, my friend then we all are in the same boat.

First of all what actually are regrets?

If you look up its exact meaning, it means feeling sad or disappointed over something that one has done or failed to do. And let me get this straight because I’m here to motivate you all and take you out of darkness, that regret arise in our life due to lack of our efforts that we put in to attain something. The result that you’ll get at the end is always directly proportional to the efforts that you put in to achieve it and the example that I’m giving now will probably be the best to explain my point because it’s one of the common things that happen in everybody’s life nowadays.

If you have a crush on someone then don’t waste time. Seize the moment. Ask them out. You know only two things would happen in this scenario – either the answer would be yes or no. Now if no will be the answer, you’ll surely be upset for a few days but you will be clear about their feelings for you and you’ll move on after some time. However, if the answer is yes, then you’ll become the happiest person and there would be no resentment. So in both cases, regret will never arise and your life will become simpler and better as you’ll move along with it.

Never give up. Always follow your dreams and passion. Keep putting efforts to achieve your goal and you’ll one day have everything you ever wanted which means you’ll have a life without any regrets and a life with all the happiness you deserved. No one becomes successful overnight. It happens only after years of hard work and a lot of sleepless nights and days. One of the successful people who inspire me almost every day is Neha Sharma of Neha Doodles. Her work is really amazing. Her comics and doodles are really good and reading them will surely make you happy and release your tension. She has grown over the years through hard work and her desire to be the best of all. It obviously took her some time to get better at what she wanted to do but eventually by her efforts and never giving up, she is ideal for a lot of people today.

Always love yourself. Love yourself for who you are before anyone else. Be someone with whom you would want to be. Never hate yourself if someone doesn’t like you because every person doesn’t know how to differentiate diamonds from mere stones. Do not listen to anyone about what to do, how to look, what to wear, and all the other things that you wanna do. People who cannot be like you will always try to bring you down. Ignore them and become carefree.

Regrets of life lead to depression, depression leads to laziness and this cycle repeats itself until you put your foot down. So stand up, go out, strive for what you want, never settle for less. I’m not asking you to inculcate greed in yourself. What I’m saying is that set a goal for your life. Work for it and do not settle until you achieve it. Once you’ll achieve it, you’ll see what contentment feels like. You’ll know what a life without regrets is like.