Statement of the day courtesy of mum “you have become very cruel!” Well what can one say? Having to live in a mess on a daily basis and having to deal with other people’s shit drives one to cruelty or insanity. I am not sure where I have been driven, maybe both or just mere cruelty. The counselor tells me ...
Emptiness seems to fill my world of late, again. Too many things about which I cannot be bothered but that keep popping into my life whether I like it or not. A constant list of names that harass my brain, and people who cannot mind their own business or rather have no control of their own lives trying to preach ...
I seek for suggestions for good restaurants in his home town. Specifications : Noiseless and without men staring at legs! He makes a suggestion, and after a moment of googling I realise that I have already been there on a wrong day with teenagers shrieking their heads off. Terrible diner that was, with too much alcohol on my table, and too ...
“So I hear you threatened to kill him” he says. I go “what the fuck” in my head. Why the hell would I threatened to kill an idiot, who is not even worth the effort. I tell him, “ if I intend to kill someone I would not go around threatening them in advance.” I mean isn’t it like the ...
Statement of the day courtesy of mum “you have become very cruel!” Well what can one say? Having to live in a mess on a daily basis and having to deal with other people’s shit drives one to cruelty or insanity. I am not sure where I have been driven, maybe both or just mere cruelty. The counselor tells me ...
It was funny to read those words, but they were there, in one of those mails that he sent her. It had taken him 9 months to write to her. He had maintained his silence through his child’s birth, through the divorce, and then he decides to break it. For what cause? To tell her that he never loved her. ...
“Do you think I am a bad person?” he asks. I do not reply. And I prefer not to reply. Why? Because I barely knew him. Had met him for half a day, and spoken to him over chat on a not so regular way. I honestly was not the person from whom he should have been asking the question. ...
President Maitripala Sirisena’s election manifesto was a surprise to many who did not anticipate his candidacy. Though it probably is not as lengthy as the Manhinda Chinthanaya which formed the basis for many policies in the past decade, the manifesto does present ample space for addressing many environment related concerns, especially on climate change and sustainable development. This article is ...
“I should have dated Rikaza” he tells his friend. I just stare in shock. Having never heard this name, wondering why he would say such a thing. It had been months ago, and still it just seemed a little too harsh. I ask him who she is, and he says “this woman in office, with a kid”. Very nonchalant, indifferent, ...
I met them at different times. Lama when she woke me up by walking into the room. She looks at me, and says “You are so beautiful! Where are you from?” Being the woman I am, and the instincts functioning the same way that any woman’s does, a long term friendship was born instantaneously. Over the numerous times I fell ...
A read though all the good mornings, the good nights, and the nastiness of the last emails. Not ignoring the thin line between love and hate, a one that is fine, hurtful nevertheless. I read, I delete. Memories of happiness, at times pain, sometimes affection hidden somewhere within. Delete, one by one. Read, delete. Not relive, not relapse. Delete. ...
Yes it is the 4th, and I have hit a certain point in life when choices have to be made and then stuck with. Sometimes choices are made for you by others, or at least your choices are affected by others who decide to play around with your life. Then again, one can play with you only as long as ...
I watch my friend lie on the couch complaining while her hubby runs around doing as he is bid. She is a few weeks into her pregnancy and he is over the moon about it. I feel happy for them, while I feel the pangs of jealousy which I do not think I ever felt, even as a child, cloud ...
I sent the final e-mail I will ever write to him. I had given it thought, I had waited for him to come to his senses (if he were ever to) to evaluate his decision. I had given him once again the chance to pick, like I always did. It has been three months since I heard of him and ...
Words do not come easy for me, Not anymore. Not to express what I feel, how I feel. I venture, lost between expressions, thoughts, and chains of images, flowers, candles, cobbled roads and boots with heels, (annoying ones.) Expressions sweep in, different voices, different places. I walk along in my heels, in silence, with occasional complains. Within words come in ...
Boredom sinks in. As usual. You vicious thing! The same story. The same conversation. Pretentious attentiveness, on a downhill journey. A slow one. Not fast enough to kill the boredom. Not too slow to go unnoticed. I lose track, of words and sentences. Mere words flashing in front of the eyes, no relation, no attachment. One sided affection. A ...
Iryna works as head of Climate Change Development National Ecological Center of Ukraine, an NGO which focuses on climate change related issues. She has worked there for almost ten years. She is a mother, and a full time working woman. She shared her thoughts on what it means to be a working woman, and following her passion. Choosing a ...
I watched seated in bed, Aiden walking around the room, getting ready for work. He had been tiptoeing around the room, but I awaken nevertheless. He notices me watching him, comes over to land a kiss on my forehead while continuing to gather his socks, shoes and what not. I think of how the two of us keep crossing paths, ...
