What am I doing here? Am I supposed to be here? Am I living, or just pushing myself through little 24-hour pieces of existence, stringing them in a chain and calling it seventeen years of life? Where are my hopes, my dreams, my happiness? Do I even know what I want from life? Yes, maybe …
Month: December 2006
Once upon a time
Once upon a time, there was Time. And an awful lot it was too. There was such an awful lot of Time, you could play cards, then watch TV, go hiking, sleep, drool, and you’d still have as much time as you started off with. It was an endless heap of stinkin’ Time. Then along …
Why Die Another Day?
What difference does it make whether I die now or forty years later? The final destination is the same. You see, actually, the thing is not that. The thing is, we live in a place that teaches you to fear death, just like it teaches you to fear anything unknown. It teaches you that while …
Losing the Point
I keep getting dragged back again and again, to the gaping, absolute brevity of this life. A fleeting moment. Transient as a shooting star. Wish before it fades. And so little time to spend here. I cannot feel secure and sedentary in this situation. It’s here now, gone tomorrow. And so all the little problems, …
The Truth
The truth isn’t that I’m a West Bengal Board student studying in a reputed South Kolkata school. The truth isn’t that half-yearly question-papers are very tough, but if you practise enough, you’ll pull through. The truth isn’t that political readers have gone crazy in this country. The truth isn’t that meat is getting costlier everyday. …
One Life 