I'm already in such a cozy winter mood! Where inside at dusk you sit in the warm light of the lamp in the old armchair and comfortably cuddled up in a cozy blanket, drink a hot tea or punch and read a thick book. Sometimes you look out of the window next to your Armchair into the thick snow that is outside on the windowsill and in the garden and watch how the dark blue sky gets darker and darker. Then a small blackbird or blue tit run across the snow and leave small tracks in it. And you cuddle up in your warm cozy blanket, sip your delicious tea and bury your nose again in the many letters of the book and immerse back into the story. The only sounds you hear are the soft crackling of the fire in the little carmine and the purring of your cat, who has curled up comfortably on your lap and is enjoying the pre-Christmas mood and silence as much as you do. I love to do this every evening <3 What about you? Have a magical season of Advent; 3 Ellie
I just praised the loving sunset but now I feel it's time to do so with you!!!!!!
You don't know what battles I am fighting
You don't know the ones I am winning and losing
You don't know if my breakfast is sweet or bitter
You don't know if I am returning to a bed of flowers or nails
You don't know if I am having nightmares
You don't know if my mornings are even fair
You just know I speak less
You don't know that each of my actions are shouting ahead
You don't know enough because I am not willing to tell
You don't know enough because you are not the risk I am willing to take
I am an introvert, you think I like playing safe
But you don't know even privacy is like a fire play
The world is pretty miserable around but recently I found some hope, it was not some mental thought but a person. We tend to derive positive emotions from the people who are close to us or those we love but this person was actually nothing more than an acquaintance, he was neither my love nor my friend or family. He was just an acquaintance, a person who was around me because he was supposed to be. Now coming to why he was a ray of hope. While growing up we start losing our innocence, our happy vibe and energy, we get burdened by responsibility and so on but this person was different, he was in his 20s but his eyes were innocent as a 2 years old, he was also going through enough but his smile was enough to wash your pains. This feeling I got while being around him was different, he was warm as a winter sun. It never felt like things would go wrong around him, I know I was in a different place then but he was enough to give me hope.
Two cups of coffee is all I need
But only one cup for me
The other one for someone I really wanna meet
Someone who pays heed
Till then let the coffee rest
Till then I will hope for the best
I was trying to create balance,
No wonder it was a challenge,
I was choosing all the rights,
I was just trying to be white.
Although it was tiring,
My conscience was firing,
Doing all the virtues,
Was something like a painful curfew.
But one day I slacked,
And my efforts started to lack,
Surprisingly everything got easy,
Only my conscience was a bit squeasy.
But it was not hurting,
So i decided not to try diverting,
Soon the wrongs got too much,
Without even realizing good was lacking touch.
Vices took the hold,
Introspecting was now too bold.
Soon new strategy was needed,
Because my heart pleaded.
So i took a side stage,
Not acting to any rage,
But was it a vice or a virtue,
I was now ready for rescue.
Someone came and told that the answer in within,
Please open your heart’s bin.
I thought and overthought,
Was it the trouble where I got caught?
Did I choose vices to lose the hard work?
Was I not seeking good for the perk?
But who decides what is right and wrong?
Is there anyone that strong?
My heart had a single answer to these,
You can do as you please.
Till its not hurting anyone,
Not today, not tomorrow or ever in the long run.
Neither too much of virtues nor too much of vice,
You should have a bit of every slice,
You get to choose you,
You get to help the queue.
Balance is the only thing,
It will be hard and will even sting.
Still we need to fight,
And follow our path of light.
Vices and virtues don't get a say,
It is us with whom the decision stays.
Writing my heart out was never easy
But her friendship was so breezy
I first met her on the school bus
She had a lot of questions to buzz
Who was I, why was I so
I was new so she did not know
We got to talking slowly
The bond was new but cozy
We became close
Just two nut heads with screws loose
She became candid
Although my shyness still bid
She was never the perfect soul
But I appreciated her flaws in its whole
People told me she is imposing
I just thought that people were intruding
Many hated her for being honest
But for me her honesty brought us closest
I never knew a person who could speak her heart out
She was different without a doubt
She was a critic at best
She always reviewed me like the rest
We are poles apart
But still together at heart
We had the greatest blast
With her i even wished for the uncomfortable bus trips to last
We never found a medication to our condition
But it gave a lot of happy moments to our edition
It was so easy with her
She never bothered if my answer was contrasting with her
We were comfortable in our skin
We never expected each other to be akin
We have been close through ups and downs
Even talking once a few months didn't bring our friendship to ground
She always said seven years are all we need
After that nobody can break our bond even if they bleed
I didn't take it seriously ever
But now it is a truth forever
Today she means a lot
I never regret doing something for her even as much as a dot
I am willing to be her safety net
I will always be in her debt
The best thing about characters of a book is not what they do in the book, it's the little backstory about them. The story that makes them what they are in the book. No character is beautiful without their backstory. And ain't it the same with humans??
It's so intimidating to see myself in a mirror because I see me and then this another person who is not me. A person who is just an amalgamation of my mother, my father and my grandparents. A person who is not one but many. And it is so amazing and frightening at the same time. The fact that like every other thing, like every other incident, and person, you also hold the potential to be beautiful and scary not only to others but to your own self too.
Found the diagnosis to my problems...
Morbid fear of solitude, or of being left alone, abandoned or ignored.
P.S.: Solitude is often good but the rest are just dreadful.
Life is a journey indeed but why are we supposed to keep on moving and moving. Journey is about enjoying, feeling and then moving, taking stops when you need to, being able to get tired, being able to feel refreshed, being able to make connections, and most importantly being able to say goodbye to one stop and then move on to the next.
But I guess in the journey of life neither have I received enough goodbyes to forget people, nor I have got enough time to say goodbyes to enough people. I hate when people ABSQUATULATE. I hate when I ABSQUATULATE. But is it anyone's fault?
Life is running so fast that we are always afraid of missing on something in future, even if we are missing on our present for it. Our ambitions make us run from people we love, we leave without saying goodbye because we don't realise we are leaving, we think we are around but by the time we look back, we have actually reached miles and miles away. Away from the people we thought we will never leave.
We think that the person who is now miles away might have moved that distance on his own, maybe you were still at the same place but the other one has drifted apart. But no one knows for sure because you didn't say goodbye first and neither did the other person. So now you don't know how to ask if it was you that moved faraway or if it was them.
You are tired now you want to sit and think but life is still moving, you are still afraid of missing things if you stop. You again absquatulate and move on. And the cycle continues...
*TRIGGER WARNING*
I heard somewhere, 'Rape is not about sex it's about violence and dominance.' and I couldn't agree more, but this also made me think that there are so many forms of rape, it's not only physical but mental, social and emotional.
Whenever a girl is told that she should not do something because she is a female, she gets mentally raped, whenever a girl is not given equal respect in society, she gets socially raped and whenever all this continues, she gets emotionally raped. It's not like only men are raping women but I think women are a part of this too, in reality it's the whole patriarchy. I don't think there is a single woman who has not been raped in some form, atleast once by this patriarchy and like physical rape it leaves pain, wounds and kill us from within.
I know rape is a heavy word and I should not use it like this and sorry if it triggers anyone but for me what women go through on a daily basis is also not that simple. It's just my thoughts and nothing more.
As a child I really loved the idea of suicide and kind of glorified it in my mind. It seemed perfect in all ways, you don't have to suffer in old age, you don't have to suffer from the pain of any terminal illness. It was just like if things are not going well you can end things whenever you want. I always liked the fact that suicide gives you the right to end your life as per your wish and instead of someone or something having the ability to end you.
But now a lot of time has passed, I am an adult and very thankful that I found a reason to not do something so 'awesome' as suicide. Because now I am mature and has realised that the notion behind my glorifying suicide had no base. I have realised that Yes when we try to hang ourselves we are the ones to remove that stool from under our feet but the rope we use was given to us by someone else. In simple words we want to end our lives but only because of others and how they treat us, which is obviously wrong. One more thing I realised growing up is that like we got hundred reasons to procrastinate our work, we also got hundred reasons to procastinate the idea of suicide. And for me just a single one was sufficient to keep me alive and also to teach me how to love life.
Maybe you need more than one reason to keep up living but I know you have those reasons, so just find them and cling to it till you start loving yourself and the surrounding. If I can move on everyone can and you know if I would have opted for suicide back when I was a kid, maybe I would have never been able to face all those failures and then enjoyed overcoming them. Challenges don't make your life miserable but they make your life unique. Just like I love to wear a unique dress to a party, I also love having my set of failures and challenges which make my life unique.
Finally, when you feel like ending your life just cling to the 'some' reasons around you to live till the time you start loving your life. Because suicide is stupid and everyone definitely realises that one day.
Someone asked about my ideal type and I didn't know what to say.
I only knew a single name that I didn't want to take.
Sometimes it hits you exactly in your core. The realisation that you just not have that one person with whom you are never going to be angry, the person who gets your mood even before you realise, and someone to whom you can rant everything out.
The wish to be alone is so wierd, you try to forget so many people and end up remembering so many things at once.
It's so confusing
Today was my day of refusing
But that person took my turn
It feels like burn
I always used to think
Why me getting angry or depressed used to bring my mother to brink
Now it seems so obvious
She must have been holding a lot of stuff that's serious
Because that's what is happening with me each day
I am going through a lot but keeping my emotions at bay
It's easier to tackle things around
If only the people near you are not pulling you to ground
I wake up and try to smile
But even a single person being sad and angry makes me think a mile
It feels like cheating to me
I have so much to feel, how are they even beating me
Someone said your coping mechanisms' great
But I need to express is what I felt
Faking my emotions so others don't feel depressed
Is too much of a burden as I read
Sometimes I am on the verge of breakdown
But someone else grabs the sad crown
I feel so betrayed
I even dread
I know it's attention seeking clearly
But it was my time to show my problems dearly
You took that away
Now I have no idea how to get my way
I don't know if it's wrong
But when one person is sad I think I don't have the right to sing my sad song
So I keep on storing
And it's easy enduring
But again one day someone is at dismay
I start feeling the angst because even though I wasn't planning to say
That person seems to have taken my turn
And I have got the burn
So I get angry and depressed
I don't try to show it but it gets expressed
No I am not copying anyone
It just me feeling that I didn't get a chance to express to someone
I have never been a person who had any big plans for my 20s. Honestly, my plans have always been about life in general, like I should ultimately become this, I should have someone who loves me and I should travel a lot but no goal like I should achieve this particular thing in my 20s. Although now when I am really in this stage of my life I have realised how much I have to do and how much I am doing. It's really a life changing phase, you are no more a kid and you are not even a responsible adult. Your time to make 'n' number of mistakes is over but yet you are clueless about the best decisions for yourself in more than 99% of occasions. You have people to support you but you don't have people to walk with you on difficult paths.
I am in my 20s unaware of what is right and what is wrong. Adulting at my own pace usually seems slower than others. Deep down I know I am growing, I appreciate how far I have come but on the other end it doesn't seem enough. I have learnt a lot, I am different from what I was in school. I am stronger but yet more fragile than before. I am confident yet afraid of others' perception about me as a whole. I am surrounded by people yet alone for long. I want to be loved romantically yet I am afraid of commitment. It's complicated but still clear. Maybe 20s is about being everything, being a super hero and a weakling together. It's about feeling everything so that ultimately you know what you want to be. It's about living different lives with single soul. It's about experimenting everything so that in your 30s you know which experiment had the most successful results.
It doesn't need any planning, it's just about living in the moment, going on a road trip without a map but with hope of reaching the destination. It can be a successful and joyful ride, it can be a painful and rough ride but in the end where ever you reach will be far away from where you started and would be indeed more lovelier than what you plan.
Do you ever wake up with the feeling that a lot is lost
It's summer but you still feel the frost
Everything and everyone is around
But you still can't listen a sound
It's not your life but a trap
You are actually a piece of crap
Your to do list is overflowing
Your courage to start something is slowly going
It's not like you have to start afresh
But where you are standing now, seems nothing more than a mess
Your ambitions are enthusiastically parading
Even though all your motivation is fading
You are somehow willing to leave
But just too scared to believe
Supporting hands seems to tease
Ah! hope you knew, who you want to please
Feel like you have an empty soul
You are too tired to feel not only this but all
You want to speak
Although you are scared that your secret of being a coward might leak
You are not a loser, ofcourse
But you also know that a winner doesn't have such remorse
It's so easy to forgive what someone said to you but it's so difficult to forgive what they say about the people you love the most...
So make sure you don't say anything wrong about someone in front of their loved ones because they might eventually forgive but they would never ever forget.
I am getting offended by most of the things these days...
Don't know if it's my newly found self worth phase or I have crossed the thin line to enter the ego phase.
It's so lovely to walk on an empty road
It's not loneliness but a peaceful abode
The winds going slowly
Making your hairs a messy fun
You make the map to walk on
Nothing specific for your attention to lock on
You take your favourite turns
You can open yourself and run
The grass even on your side seems greener
You are not you but someone with a different demeanor
You might go back to the memory lane
But it's so nice that it doesn't give you pain
You can remember your favourite song
You might realise you haven't listened it for so long
You might sigh but it's a sigh of relief
There is no one to give you social anxiety
You can think the things you never think about
You can feel the emotions you were unaware about
It's not tragic
But just magic
What it feels like to break a bond that was never there
What it feels like to wake up from a dream and realise reality is here
What it feels like to know that you are not the one
What it feels like to think someone unknown has left you abandoned
What it feels like to know you were never good enough
What it feels like to live in a bluff
What it feels like to expect too much
What it feels like to have a wrong hunch
What it feels like to consider love would come by
What it feels like when the one you like breaks all ties
What it feels like to have a void
What it feels like to not being able to avoid
It definitely feels too much
It's so much that you eventually give up
It's so elaborate that you get numb
But you still think what it feels like to...
To my dear crush
I miss all the adrenaline rush
Each moment spent beside you was special
For you I was ready to wrestle
You were a friend first
And thankfully not a boy who always used to walk by
I always loved how you used to sit beside me when my friend was not around
I remember the look you gave to those gossipers on the ground
I felt special when you told me those secrets
I felt safe when you waited for me on the way
There was a time when I used to think about you all day
From hiding my feelings
To behaving indifferently I did it all
I was crazy over you for sure
Nothing between us was official
But you were a secret I was ready to tell none
Choosing the same subjects
And making study plans was somehow the future I was looking for
I liked you even after your ego
I was so happy when you used to say sorry and was ready to let things go
But I also remember that truth and dare game
I remember how you took my name
I was elated for sure
But something at that time needed a cure
I remember her crying
And that was the time I was trying
To not think
Because thinking meant choosing something
She was my best friend
And she had a lot unsaid
I had guessed before
But I was so over you that I decided to keep a close door
I liked you
And she liked you too was the case somehow
But now I had a choice to make anyhow
It was time to wake
And let the dream break
So I thought for long
It was not easy and I was definitely not strong
She had seen me cry more times
Than you had seen me smile
You were special
But what we had didn't promise me miles
The idea of losing her was unimaginable
Reading my mind was a skill in which you weren't able
She had seen my ups and downs
She was the one who never let me hit the ground
She was true to say we were telepaths
We were always the best pair of psychopaths
I had thought about all the possible scenarios
And unfortunately in neither of them
You were there till the end
But she was always around
So I decided to choose her over you
And I definitely miss you
But never have I ever regretted my decision
Although I would love to have an accidental collision
Because I want to tell you
That you were my crush indeed
But she was the friend of my need
I am happy to have her beside me
Even though she doesn't make me feel the same glee
It's been years I know
But she is still my constant tho
Feeling anxious because something reminded me that I am not special & irreplaceable for the people who are special & irreplaceable to me.
You want to be perfect my psychologist said
It was the problem usually left unsaid
It's been years
But I still remember her saying it again and again
I dismissed all thoughts
Because she was actually my teacher and teachers never know it all
But today I sit and am ready to contemplate
I don't think it's late
The problem is still that I don't believe her
Although from I don't want to be perfect
To do I really want to be perfect I have grown some thoughts
But still I am clear as a crystal ball
And I internally never wanted to be perfect is the feeling that stands tall
I realised by now
That I was just wired like that somehow
No one ever told me that being imperfect is good
I was just growing up under their hood
I always thought that's how you get love
I never wanted to join the unwanted club
There were only two statements I usually heard
I am proud of you always sounded warmer than that person is better than you, bud
Each mark lost in exam made me shattered
Because I knew it was deciding how much I mattered
Maybe that is how everyone is wired
And it's funny that nobody is getting tired
I guess the tireds join the unwanted club
And we are not taught to talk about them in this hub
I don't blame anyone
Because choosing this life was already done
But I might not have the pace
That is required to win this rat race
Although standing behind and alone
Means your chances of affection are blown
The problem is that we are not pushed towards self love
We are just pulling ourselves with self bluff
I was never behind perfection
I can say it loud and clear
I was always running behind affection
I mumbled with a tear
Sometimes you had planned so much about a life with a certain person in it, that even a picture or a memory of them today can make you feel completely empty from inside. Although you were happily living your life on your own till yesterday and its been years of not being in touch with them.
The world is burning with passion
People are burning with emotions
You are burning with love
But here I stand
With my flickering soul
I have a flickering soul...
I tell everyone that I write when I am sad but actually I write when I am 'the perfect amount of sad' like a little bit of extra sadness makes what I write sound weird and a little less can just shut my brain.
P.S. I don't know what that 'perfect amount of sad' is... Haha