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First step is to make sure that he who dies, dies not in vain, Second to make sure that he who screams, screams not in pain, Third that the tears which come unbidden are those of joy and sorrow casts not a shade on our ephemeral existence, Fourth that we laugh honestly at least once a day and […]

An Ode to Mom

Posted: 10th May 2015 by aseem.ace in Thoughts
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As I tend to frequently remind her she was the inspiration for my first ever creative effort. Of all the muses I have flirted with the most enduring one. What can one say about a mother that’s not been said or expressed in the choicest of words or in gestures and expressions that are over […]

Envy

Posted: 28th April 2015 by aseem.ace in Thoughts
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They do not envy your loss, they only envy your gain, They envy your happiness, they do not envy your pain, They envy your wandering, they do not envy that you are hopelessly lost, They envy your enjoyment of the snowfall not the pain you endure with the frost, They envy your winter sunshine and […]

“When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.” -Anna Pavlova It peeks at us from around the corner. Smiling invitingly. Singing the siren’s song to mesmerize us. And as we rush towards […]

  With thoughts of you my words spontaneously bleed, On our happiness and love they flourish and feed,     You fit so snugly in the nook of my arm, With you by my side the greatest challenges seem benign hurdles and the world’s blows seem to do no harm,     That crazy twinkle […]

The smile from a random stranger in return to a genuine smile from you. Conversations with strangers in a language you don’t even understand but the kindness and warmth of that conversation beams a universal  message of good will. Finding the one when you weren’t even looking. In the process finding the questions to your […]

He had often warned himself not to build castles and decks of dreams for they had a way of crashing down unceremoniously whenever he dared build them. He had stopped making that mistake after numerous crash and burns. But then he dared again. Hoping this time it would be different. He had suffered through enough […]