Beyond

The lines are getting straighter
Fewer dots to connect
Getting better at catching up now
Recalling to just forget
The bigger picture has every colour
Best to move away
Keeping score is meaningless
Knowing how it ends

Let lies be louder than truth
Actions don't need to speak
Words are nothing but pulses
Nothing needs to be
Fairness is subjective
Life an anomaly
Time is barely anything
One doesn't have to heal

It is what it is now
Finding it hard to fail
Not everything is mortal
Even emptiness leaves a trail
Be your worst enemy
Or be your best pal
Even if you try not to be
You're still part of something else

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0505 In The Ocean

People around every corner of life interrupt. They finish a sentence for you instantaneously every time you fail to complete one. The world is harsh, and some souls even harsher and coarser; it is the feeling of peace inside that helps one navigate in life, and cope up with the corrupt. If you don't put a nice end to your bite from this world - when you take the liberty to speak - someone else will. The world needs genuine listeners, and for most of us, hopefully, our dear ones are the best examples.



Every once in a while in urban life one loses his or her grip over the essence of peace. Peace, a calm ocean that every living creature carries within, can be lost and found from time to time. If the material world is to be blamed, the more you invest in a job or a goal, the more frequent the loss becomes. But the things - they can be mere events in life or memories - that touch your soul the deepest hold the never corroding key to the peace within.



I woke up early today, like most days, and was reminded of the times I'd wake up after hours of bodily recharging to find Papa still self-talking, often even loudly. Sometimes I'd tend to not hear it and sometimes it'd just be an imagination. Other times I'd feel helpless. For all other things that Schizophrenia is, one characteristic is the violent nature of the round-the-clock restlessness it brings to the host.



I felt full of peace and contentment. That was my long lost key. There will always be people who'd look at you and feel more successful and accomplished. They'd even flaunt their assets, or interrupt when you're experiencing life, or sharing your experience of it by speaking, or not speaking. There may often be a version of you that loses its grip over such situations: you can choose to speak louder and finish the sentence if someone interrupts, or grant them the right to be, spending from the ocean you have gathered drop by drop and click by click.



People can call you dependant today out of fashion, or choose not to spell it out for you out of artificial kindness, but may well be unaware of the possibility that trends expire. It is the soul, one's personal and exclusive access to the ocean, that lives beyond such differences.



The choppy waters settled once again. 

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L.G.

So what if it's Sunday night and I have some freelance work to finish. I am doing it while watching a coming-of-age show called Yeh Meri Family Hai, sipping from a glass full of Raspberry Absolut vodka with Appy Fizz, and talking to a beautiful girl on messages.

Life is good.

By the way she's having her long-stored cranberry Breezer. 

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Sustained release

Some moments can be timeless. Even if you learn that at the age of 12, the context might keep changing, or developing so to speak. Certain things are best put to end to make room, and windows, for new things. 'I feel so great here' occurs only because you let go of something before that, at least in most cases. You have to be really lucky or naive to find something great the first time. Stuck in 40 minutes or so of a new restaurant, some familiar music, awesome contemporary woodwork, average food and good company. The ingredients of a successful time capsule can vary.

It doesn't take much to make new friends. Especially on days you feel awefully miserable missing an old friend. It doesn't take much, after all, to be happy. 

And there's nothing more satisfying than being stuck in a comforting loop...like a favourite groove, almost a habitat.

Life, taste, friendship, dates, love -- we all know all that, but the context can really make the same old emotions, and the produce that comes out of it, unique. 

A perfect time capsule lets you revisit every bit of it any number of times anytime you want. It can be just a restaurant, just some wood, some new drinks, a surprisingly less quantity of tolerable food, but a warm heart can simply make all that mean a lot more. 

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