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Finding Focus

Imagine after a prolonged struggle to strengthen your determination to move out of your comfort zone and finally undertake the tedious task of treading alone in quietude on a predefined yet undefined path, you come across a junction, a division of that path into two; thus offering two choices to you.It was expected; you were aware that you had to be decisive to choose the right, rational path yet you remain helpless in practising your now very  pivotal decision-making and critical-thinking until the choices are presented to you. On the left, darkness resides; sheer, shivery darkness. Huge, beast-like trees with corky trunks pave the right and left sides of the abnormally straight path with its windy interiors. The canopy thickens as your eyes try to wander into the depths of the forests but after some crucial metres, the trees do scatter. Straight in the eyes of darkness, there is a glistening shimmer of light, it’s a fire; it may as well be a hallucination; it’s abstract; it seems as if darkness is mocking at you for being a teeny-tiny creature in its vast expanse of terror. The road is surely short but certainly terrifying. To the right, it is spring. […]

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Grandparents

Let’s begin with a simple definition: Grandparents are our parents’ parents i.e. the parents of our father and mother. This means that everyone has 2 sets of grandparents which means two different ways of showering love and two completely different experiences. As grandkids, a comparison between our maternal grandparents i.e. ‘nana-nani’ and paternal grandparents i.e. ‘dada-dadi’ always prevails in our minds and we tend to prefer one over the other in different aspects but looking at the whole picture both seem to be perfect in their ways. While dadi feeds us way more than our capacities saying that we are growing weak, nani may act as our dietician saying that we have grown too fat over the days; while dadu may take us for refreshing early morning walks, nanu prefers to sit with us in a 12 X 13 room playing ludo and ‘saanp-seedhi’. But all of this strikes a perfect balance in our lives wherein we are the epicentre of all the love, affection, tenderness yet some strictness, experience and debatable ways of old and new living. They squeeze out all the relevant experience for us from their blanket of age spanning up to several decades because of their […]