Day: July 5, 2015

Did you know mother
Did fear not show in my eyes
Did you turn a blind eye
Did you see the tears i cried.
Your love for him outweighed your heart
The maternal thoughts rebuked
His stinking breath,gravel voice
Remember how i puked.
You abandoned me without concern
Left in dark distress
I blame myself everyday
For this life my rancid mess
Did you understand mother
In the fullness of time
Maybe you were just as guilty of the innocence robbing crime

**Let me preface this post with saying that I’m normally not this dark, but sometimes life is dark. And I don’t think you should ignore those times. So this is me being real about the place that we sometimes find ourselves.**

I don’t exactly know where I’m at. I guess it’s a place between brokenness and wholeness, joy and sadness, piece of mind and anxiety of the heart.

I wish I could say that this is the post at the end of the struggle. The one telling you that it does, in fact, get better. I really wish it was.

But I think there are enough posts out there like that. This post is for the people like me who are still in the middle of their struggle, hoping, in vain, for the lesson to be over and the next season to come.

I wish this was the post that…

I read a wonderful article that was published in the hindu newpaper’s editorial section based on an article from the guardian;  that really drove home the point how we shouldn’t be so bogged down by loneliness and how it is nothing to be afraid off!

Here’s the article-

If you get the knack of being alone it can be a luxury you’ll learn to love

Loneliness can creep through your bones like a disease, wash over you unexpectedly as if a stranger’s vomit, or sit in the pit of your stomach for weeks like undigested chewing gum. Especially, it turns out, if you’re young.

A survey carried out by Opinium for The Big Lunch has found that 83 per cent of 18-to 34-year-olds have experienced the dull, quiet ache of being lonely, which is no surprise to me.

Of course it’s easy to be lonely in your 20s. You may…