You keep on disrupting your own comfort routine
to add some new challenges.
Then you make a new routine with those challenges.
That’s how you grow.

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No idea how to deal with the situation but still step up,
butterflies in stomach yet pacifying parents,
feels like crying but you smile and say I'm fine, how are you?

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Social media shows the happiest moments of other’s lives, not even the 10% of their real life. It shows neither their mundane workdays, nor the worse and challenging times. The anxious waiting, post-conflict coping, losses or their enraged, silly self. For influencers, social media is their daily job - a glossed over and polished version through retakes, edits and photoshops. — % &Setting our goals based on the social media is fine. We all want to experience if we like the idea of it, be it traveling to snowy Himalaya or Alpine valleys or buying expensive products they flaunt. We all aspire to do something that we believe we can and feels within our reach. — % &The hope, the anticipation, the excitement is okay. Rather good for us to get our attention out of the mundane lives and plan something.
What is not okay is the negativity it brings seeing someone where you want to be. Feeling it's difficult for you to achieve it and someone else is enjoying what you'd like for yourself. Feeling void looking at them. — % &If we cannot be happy for them which is very human not be (let's be honest) can we not think of their 90% of life which is hidden behind the lense? Which is as mundane, or challenging, or unpleasant as ours get time to time.

To have this larger context while looking at happy dance reels helps not only getting over the fomo, but also makes us feel good for their joy. If only we could try this. — % &

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I couldn’t understand that
you won’t be able to understand.
Else losing you wouldn’t be a loss.

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Did you ever notice
how you lit up with right people,
the smile on your face is as real as possible,
you body as relaxed and at ease as it can be

strange the hearings of our own body with proofs
go unnoticed.

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To be a writer, the most important thing is to have a huge space in their life for themselves - not just the focused time to pen down the thoughts but to have a place where things strike from outer world and erupt inside into a fountain or have a gushing stream inside. It also needs a huge fodder to thrive on.
Being alone, either with people around you or without them - is a foundation for a writer.

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The wind whistled, twirled, teased a dandelion
bounced on the branches of oak
added the charm to the wings of birds
and then roared into laughter.

She saw it from a steady place, unperturbed.
Having gravity of her own she knew how it adds stability,
the free-flowing weightless wind couldn’t do that
The depths of oceans was what
impressed her, lured her
and the little tries of waves to escape
its boundaries to merge into hers.

No, not wind,
but the ocean.
That was her best choice.

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I fell in love with the Mongolia blossom
seeing it from far away
I didn’t have to stand under it,
or hold the petals in my hands.
Beauty transgresses everything
and lands in the throne in the heart
to rules us.

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A lot of saplings die, not because of lack of nutrition
but because of lack of space.
So do a lot of ideas.

Creativity needs space. Growth needs space. Spirituality needs space.
Solitude. Undisturbed stillness. That brings in
light to see and discern the creation in its inception.

If you’re alone and if you’re an artist, just learn to take care of yourself. Rest will follow.

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everything that was holding me back
Didn’t realise it also meant leaving you.

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