Time slows or accelerates erratically akin to a river running its course, a magnificent, unignorable and intimidating presence ; Some memories and voices don’t fade even though time through its agents of entropy persistently tries, for they remain etched as permanent tattoos on our very essence; Time is a roaring maelstrom on the surface of our […]
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Happy Birthday Dad- 65th Birthday that could have been
Posted: 13th August 2017 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: 65th, 65th birthday dad, calmness, dad, dearest, existence, happy birthday, joy, love, memories, missing, mortal, peace, river, sanity, soul, time, universe
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How to Assign Meaning to a Meaningless World
Posted: 4th July 2015 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: art, define, dies, emotions, end, fourth, glory, joy, meaning, meaningless, mind, music, screams, selves, sorrow, souls, stars, third, universe
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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 […]
Envy
Posted: 28th April 2015 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: breeze, crashes, dies, envy, essence, frost, gain, hope, joy, loss, lost, pain, presence, snowfall, struggle, sunshine, winter
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 […]
The Little and Big Joys of Life
Posted: 5th December 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: big, charity, child, coffee, dog, dream, existential, failure, father, happiness, happy, her, hungry, journey, joy, kindness, life, little, lost, love, music, nephew, petrichor, purpose, random, realize, road, smile, stranger, wanderer
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 […]
The Adventure
Posted: 25th November 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: adventure, ascetic, blame, brethren, certainty, countless, day, extremes, failure, forges, friends, glory, heartbeat, humour, joy, joyous, marriage, men, priest, spirit, strange, success, unknown, vows, winter
On a clear winter night he ventured further into the unknown. Despite his love of adventure and a spirit tempered in the forges of extremes of failure and success he was still shaking inside with a curious mix of joy and trepidation. He was prepared for the unpredictable dangers that lurked on this path he […]
A Dark Diwali
Posted: 23rd October 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: brighter, celebration, child, clothes, cruel, daily, dark, dawn, day, diwali, festive, heart, joy, laborer, life, night, off, pains, son, wage, wife, year
Ah Diwali Morning!! The morning where the night holds so much promise that you want time to move fast till darkness dawns on the planet. For the darkness that night is sure to be punctured by rapturous flailing of firecrackers against the immense sky. He had taken the day off. A rarity for him as […]
The Twilight Loneliness
Posted: 18th September 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: alive, ambitions, chill, despair, died, existence, eyes, Fire, first kiss, george, her, joy, love, memories, past, play, ROSE, sacred words, sadness, storm, terrible, up
He smiled reading the old messages as his old bones creaked with every movement. He stoked the fireplace to ignite the embers into a greater frenzy, for the warmth that went through him reading these old messages wasn’t enough anymore for keeping the chill from affecting him. Plus losing her had made him a morose […]