M is for ...

I'm made of dreams and memories.

I am made of misheard whispers in the dark.

I am made of glances across crowded rooms.

Of the closeness of strangers in a line outside a movie.

I am made of the corners of your mouth.

I am made of awkward elevator rides and the lack of security one finds on a doorstep, at the end of the evening, when one has enjoyed the company of another.

I am made of the train tracks that take me home.

I am made of ghost notes, from songs you never heard.

So forgive my absence.

But I was never really here to begin with, anyway. 

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J is for ...

Sharing some Joy Quotes….

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If tomorrow never comes...!!!

If tomorrow was my last day in this world…

If tomorrow was the day I disappeared from this world and had no other chance to ever feel the existence again… 

"Ok! If I come to know that tomorrow is gonna be my last day, then I will be entitled to a whole 24 hours.  So here goes my day…

I'll surely freak out , but will try to compose myself and before the dawn breaks will go for a night drive to the beach and be there for some time.  Tell my mom and dad what they are to me, and how much I am grateful for been their daughter.

Call all of my friends and dear ones and say “I love you” and how much they mean to me and thanks for been a part of my life. Say sorry to anyone I have hurt. If possible visit my friends and near ones and give them a big bear hug. 

Spend time with my niece, hug her, kiss her, pamper her, till she resists. Will fulfil all the demands of Brat and let him buy whatever he wants.

Go through all the photographs. Update Blog. Pray.

Write personalized letters and buy gifts to family and best friends and tuck them away for them to find.

Finish the book I am reading. Have dinner with my family. Write my journal. Call up my best friends, chit chat to them before hitting the bed and then will listen to my favorite songs and drift off to sleep."

This is something I wrote 3 years before… but now when I think about it… most probably I won’t be doing any of the above. I might just live it as a normal day and maybe would call my family and friends… we can’t do much in a single day. So enjoy the hours as it reveals infront of you is the best way…

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it I say!! Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows. - Pope Paul VI

P.S. If tomorrow was my last day” is an assumption.. but who can ever know what will happen tomorrow..

Life is something that many of us view as endless to a certain extent. We feel that we have an endless amount of hours in a life  to do all that we want to do. The reality is, we do not know when our number is going to be called, and when it will be our time to check out. So live the moment.

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Guest Post! 

I am so happy to host Privy Trifles aka Namrata on my blog. She writes at Memoirs of Me about life, love, memories and herself. Even thou we haven’t had much of personal talks or anything but still she’s one blogger whose words I could connect so well. So without much intro.... here goes Privy's post...

You Light Up My Life

Twinkle in your eyes

A smile that shines

The way you hold me close

Softly yet tenderly like a rose

Hugging my heart and soul,

Kissing my lips and making me whole.

Taking me to a place where it’s just you and me;

Somewhere between the day and the night it seemed to be.

A place called nowhere - where the time stood still,

Our love shining around like it always will!

It’s the way you make me feel that I wonder how do I love thee ~

As I lay there next to you with my head on your chest,

I knew what it felt to be at peace, what it meant to have all your crevices filled with love

And to be held as if you were never broken before!

Baby, You Light Up my LIFE

Because you are that flame that kisses the darkness away and fills it with the joy of love!

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Away from the crowd occupying her own little space she was unconcerned about the world. Neither knowing what's happening nor hearing the murmurings around her, she just lived listening to the voices in her head and engulfed in the darkness inside her.

Once, she was that girl who had a place in everyone's heart and house. No celebrations were complete without her laughter and songs. She was friends with both the old and young. She was others comfort zone as no one hesitated to pour out their worries and tears on her. But, one day down the lane, she lost herself. As if someone just flipped a coin somewhere out there,she got consumed by her own solitude, without hearing or knowing anything.

Everyone was curious to know what happened to her, but not curious enough to find the truth. Maybe it was her own choice to the path of ultimate freedom from the chaos of the crowd or play of the fate. But who was to answer the world when she herself was far detached from life....

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Engagement! 

She looked at her mehendi filled hands, custom made clothes, jewels, high heels. Seeing them just made her all excited and a bit nervous. Tomorrow she was going to enter a new phase of life, getting into a new commitment. Her engagement day.  

The phone buzzed breaking the thread of her thoughts. It was a message from her best friend. There was a time when she found herself falling for him, but was scared to admit and jeopardize their friendship. So she kept her feelings for him locked away in the threshold of her heart.

“Nervous??? … Come down very soon… ‘m freezing in front of your gate!!!” .... the message read.

She stared at the screen for a second and then suddenly tiptoed without waking the crowd at her place. And like said, there he was in that freezy climate.

“What you doing here, at this time?”

“Hop in… let’s go have a coffee. It’s so cold.”

“Are you alright? I am not coming out with you at this time. If someone sees me I’m dead!”

“What yaar?? Tomorrow you’re gonna get engaged and I’ll have to ask permission from your Fiancé. But now you are still single and just my friend.”

“But….”

“Shut up and come!”

Arguing with him, she got into his bike.  Even thou she kept her feelings for him to herself, the moment he asked her parents her hands for marriage she just find herself falling head over heels in love with him again.

She closed her eyes and enjoyed the night thanking her stars for sending him into her life… as her best friend.

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D is for ...

Dear ...

Dear...

Life takes the most unexpected turn at the most unexpected time. And that’s why life is called the unpredictable one. If I had a choice to change what’s happening with me at the moment, I would have given anything for that…but I am so helpless. I want you to know that you are the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me. I never regretted been with you in my life. But staying with you any longer is not just possible... and if only it was...

Oh! How I wish I could hold you a bit longer. Kiss you some more. Hug you closer. Hold your hand forever. Look into your eyes and fall in love again and again. But, we don’t get everything we want and we don’t want everything we get. How true!

Never thought I will meet you but I did. And never thought I would lose you but I am. That’s the way life works. Thou, I am leaving you behind, the imprints you made in my days, will be forever engraved in my heart.

I want you to be happy and have a beautiful life, wherever you're. And I promise that I’ll always be your invisible guardian angel. 

I love you. Love you today, tomorrow and forever.

- Yours only. 

Sally read the letter for the fifth time. It was his first letter which happened to be his last too. 

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C is for ...

Countdown!

"Achu..... wake up" .... Shaking him like a zombie I yelled.

"Wh.... what ... happened?"

"Wake up lazy bones. It's 10 O'clock."

"So what? Don't disturb. I wanna sleep."

"How can you sleep the whole day? Get up!"

"What's your problem? School reopens next week... then I have to wake up even before the sun. Moreover, you and mom won't let me sleep even on Saturdays telling that I'm in 10th!!! Let me sleep before my countdown starts. So now you just bug off.... you spoiled my dream."

"Achu... Achu... Achu... wake up na"

"Shut up and Go. Or else I'm gonna pin you down."

"Fine. Bye!"

"Mmmmh....."

"Ooops.... forgot to tell you something very important..."

"WHAT??"

"I love you!!!"

"Grrrrr...... I hate you!"

P.S. This is a common scene in my home and he's going to kill me if he sees this. So if I'm still alive see you all tomorrow :D

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A is for ...

April Fool!

Married to the love of her life, having her dream job, beautiful friends and a happy life, she was living her life to the fullest, until the moment she realized that becoming a mom was not going to be easy for her. She firmly believed that only a child can complete a woman. So after years of treatment and prayers when the doctor and now a friend, said that she was pregnant, she felt alive again.

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"Can I see my child?" .... gaining conscious from her sleep after delivery she asked the doctor. The doctor stood rooted to the ground without knowing how to tell her that the child she waited all these years turned out to be a stillborn... an April fool prank from the universe.

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