The Idea-smithy

When you stir to wakefulness today, just before you open your eyelids, what is the first thing you will think of? What thought will you shade your eyes with, for the day?
Will you see the day starting slowly, without your assistance and not needing your reassurance either? Will you notice how the stage is being prepared for your arrival before [...]

I had a long, lazy lunch by myself at a cafe this weekend. I sat back in my seat, enjoying a quiet drink and my book. Over the speakers drifted a rush of 70s-80s hits which is their usual repertoire. Since it was lunchtime I guess, I was spared the agonies of the disco hits [...]

A lot of people say
You are confused!!!
when what they really mean is
You confuse me.

If
You complete me.
is supposed to be romantic, what would you say if I told you that,
You started who I am, you define me.

I want to lay me down in the wet, squishy mud and let the moisture seep into my bones, the cold engulf me, numbing every nerve, blocking every vein…till the blood stops running, the breath slows down…slower…slower…slower. I wish life wouldn’t snap on and off like it usually does but just slow down like a [...]

For Shreyasi, who understands what I don’t say as well. And for the person this conversation happened with.
~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~
How are things?
What things?
You know…are you dating anybody? I haven’t heard you talk about any women.
I haven’t liked any women.
Turn left here, it’s around the corner. What were you saying?
Nothing.
It wasn’t nothing. Tell all!
I said, I haven’t liked [...]

Bah, why am I suddenly sounding like I swallowed an entire barrell of ice-cream soda…all bubbly and bright and cheery? I almost miss my Behind Cobwebs self. Seems like as long as I had a place to put mopey stuff in, I found stuff to mope about. And now that I’ve ordered myself to be [...]