When you think about the etymology of words don’t you wonder how words for emotions and more complex phenomenon evolved? I often wonder who coined the term ‘Happy’ or its predecessors in various languages. I would have loved to have been present there to experience the indefinable joy of knowing what to call that warm […]
Posts Tagged ‘life’
Words and the Allure of Languages
Posted: 22nd May 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: allure, caveman, complex, define, dream, envy, etymology, everything, expression, figment, fuzzy, happy, hieroglyph, hollowness, inert, knowledge, languages, life, live, love, manifest, mankind, nothing, reader, sad, sadness, salute, semiconscious, symbols, waking, warm, words
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Death, Life and Some things in between
Posted: 21st May 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: appealing, birth, bleed, broke, broken, chronicle, constituent, death, faith, heaven, hell, ideal, indifferent, life, matter, memories, samuel beckett, sea, surface, worms, yolo, you only live once
“Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.”- Samuel Beckett Well […]
Life, the Universe and Nothing
Posted: 15th May 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: alive, ambition, cell, envy, heartbreak, imagination, joy, life, malevolent, material, misery, nothing, pain, panacea, reproduction, universe, whimsy
He had been a happy cell and then reproduction had disrupted his happy equilibrium. With consciousness had come discomfort and the constant flirtations with the twin serpents that joy and pain are. He had been a happy child but with age had come heartbreak, ambition, joy, envy and pain. Imagination had diminished with the years […]
Unrequited Love
Posted: 5th May 2014 by aseem.ace in Poems, ThoughtsTags: chaos, chords, crushing, damning, existence, hair, heart, life, loneliness, love, marred, poem, proof, scarred, smiled, tousle, tried, unrequited, vanity, welcome, wisps
Transfixed he stared at those errant strands wanting nought but to touch them, Tousle those further to see her play longer on the chords that seemed to his touch alluringly welcome, Those wisps of hair she kept fiddling with when nervous or angry, perhaps driven by a subconscious desire for order amidst the chaos that […]
Of a Life ill spent
Posted: 30th April 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: ages, climbed, curmudgeon, destination, dreams, empathy, heart, higher, imagination, journey, jump, land, life, louis, man, matrix, reality, rebellions, road, robert, romantic, sea, stevenson, thorny, trekked, undone, unknown, unsaid, vista, young man
As he climbed higher he was witness to a fantastic vista. The horizon endless, the sea and the land merging into each other with the harmony that only nature can achieve. He had come here ages ago once. He had treaded the same pine needle strewn paths on the edge of the world or so […]
The Circadian Rhythm- A play by Akash Dey Part 2
Posted: 27th April 2014 by aseem.ace in ThoughtsTags: act, allegory, art, beach, bhatia, brave, change, constant, consultant, Fire, heart, interesting, life, lion, money, office, pablo, play, professor, ruth, scene, sex, table
Scene 2 The lights gradually flicker and fade and shift to the middle of the stage where O is looking in their direction. She is unkempt, wearing pyjamas and a loose t-shirt. With her hair in a perfunctory knot. She’s clearly not interested in dressing up or looking good. An indefinite amount of time has […]
New Life-A poem by me
Posted: 9th July 2011 by aseem.ace in Poems, ThoughtsTags: adventure, adventurer, anxiety, beginnings, calcutta, fun, IIM, IIM-Calcutta, joy, life, new, spirit, while
A poem I wrote inspired by my first two weeks at IIM Calcutta.Its been fun and hoping for more good times ahead. New Life, New beginnings, Tides of change elicit a sigh, Joy and apprehension intermingled exist when an adventure is nigh, For even welcome change approaches with nostalgia in tow, Some emotions unbidden; […]