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Lemonade

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  When opportunities come your way, you should always try to make the best of them! When I think about my regrets at night, I often think about all the missed opportunities I had but didn't take, all the ones I took but didn't make the best out of it. I now realize the sheer amount of things I have missed out on in life just because I was scared to do something new. I was afraid of going outside my comfort zone but in doing so I was restricting myself to this tiny box with high walls. It was comfortable but I knew somewhere in my heart that I wasn't going to grow if I kept myself confined like this. I had to take risks, had to find new things. It wasn't easy, pushing my boundaries for the first time. But when I went outside that box, it was so freeing. I had not realized how suffocating it actually was to live fearing doing things I didn't know about. I came to accept that I wouldn't be able to live my life fully if I kept on restricting myself and so I tried ne

The Way Back

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  Have you ever tried traveling in the local train at the peak hours? If you have you will vividly remember the sites, the crowd but if you haven't let me paint you a picture. Imagine a woman sitting beside you talking on the phone, her mother is eagerly waiting for her with a plate of hot food as she gets back from work. Or the lady standing next to the doors, she has to change 3 trains before she can reach home or the lady who just got on, she's going home after working for 10 hours straight trying to prove her worth in a competitive industry. Each of these people seated in this train beside me have a story to tell, just like I do. Mine is simple, going home from college. A day filled with laughter and joy as I talk to my friends and do little studying in class. Not all people surrounding me have a happy story to tell, I don't either on some days. But still we all persist. We all go home and get up the next day to face a new day and live through what life offers. And some