“Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.”-Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen( APJ) Abdul Kalam was born in a small village to a boat owner and his wife. At an early age he was selling newspapers to help his family sustain themselves. His first dream to become a fighter pilot was […]
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Kalam- The Extraordinary True Story that inspired Billions
Posted: 22nd August 2015 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: APJ Abdul, birth, cardiac, essence, failure, human, kalam, life, mark, missile man, nation, nuclear, students, teacher, touch
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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 […]
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 […]
His War
Posted: 17th September 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: children, cosmic, diplomacy, Fire, first, hit, joke, life, lost, men, nothing, ripples, shot, shoulder, smiled, static, stream, time, war
He smiled as the first shot hit him in the shoulder, the pain radiating out from his shoulder like ripples from a pebble in the stream. Spreading out much like the blood splotches spreading over his shirt, just faster. The second took his ear off and he was sad as he wouldn’t be appreciating good […]
Insanely Sane Musings
Posted: 1st August 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: alive, bondage, broke, dead, deafening, death, drown, fly, freedom, heaven, hell, insane, life, musings, petrichor, rains, sane, sorrow
The silence was deafening. The oppressive freedom and the desired bondage were equally attainable. The clock ticked to signify passage of time or perhaps at its whim, it was easy to determine which and everyone tried to not figure out what it was about but couldn’t remember what they were trying for in the last […]
His Unique Life
Posted: 18th June 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: belonging, castles, code, confusion, crowd, epic, exceptional, existential, fame, Hero, highs, imperfect, life, love, lows, messy, mirage, mortality, nothingness, perfectly, play, reality, romance, success, trials, unique, villain
He thought he was the hero of the story but it was a story without a hero, a villain or an anti-hero. It was a play with multiple bit roles and no main cast. It was as abject or as grandiose a tale as there are perspectives in the universe. There were trials and tribulations, […]