Undefined Clarity

Yes! I have chosen the most important yet most neglected entity in the world (I am no exception btw) But before you or I start pondering about whether we fall into the category I just generalized, I would quote a forwarded message I read the other day which is the motivation behind this blog (apart from that other tiny reason: Boredom ;) ) . "Obama retired at 55 while Trump started at 70. We all have our own pace with life." How true! We often compare where we are in our lives with our peers and we end up being upset (atleast for most). Can't blame ourselves as this is how we were raised. As a child your parents were worried why you stand 2nd in class while you neighbor's kid always manages to secure 1st. They banged their heads against the wall to find out what they lacked in providing you with that Mr.Topoftheclass's parents didn't. Remember that weird adolescent age when you were already busy struggling with how things around you were changing so fa...

I can still hear him sometimes when I think about him. His voice low but vehement. His smile tender but radiant. His face, a mirror of the 7 decades of life and his heart that poured nothing but love for his granddaughter. Summer 1992. It's just another starry night in the fast-growing city of Hyderabad. My dad brought the old easy chair, grandpa's favorite and placed it on the front lawn. It has almost become a routine for me and grandpa to spend an hour after dinner every night. My sister, still a toddler with an all-time high sleeping rate granted me exclusive time with a man I was more in love with than my dad. I always looked forward to that hour as it lasted only for a month every year. My grandparents lived in a town miles away from the city where I am from. Their visits were limited and hence treasured. Grandpa settled into the chair and stared at the sky for a while. It was almost when I dreaded he fell asleep that he threw a glance at me and asked if I want to he...

One (or should I say the only) advantage (most of the cases) of growing up is you become more wise. A simple explanation follows. You see more of life. You run into more people, fall into situations, learn about different perspectives and understand 'it' better. But that doesn't stop the past bothering you. The decisions you have made when you were not as wise as today would haunt you. It takes a lot of effort to get rid of them. Even if you did, the guilt make s sure it built itself a tent in your backyard. According to social media, a lot of stats show that the older the friendship the longer it lasts. I don't quite agree with it. I am evolving everyday and people I chose to be friends with in the later stage of my life are more compatible with the new me than the one's I was dear to a decade back. It surprises me enough to see the difference I brought in myself without acknowledging it. But thanks to the reminders (my old friends) I now know how much I c...