We all have forgotten that
Grocery Store Person - Kirana Maal Dukaanwala -
from backstreets and alleys who helped us with grains and food during Covid pandemic, when online stores and others couldn’t serve us.

Problem gives rise to solution, need makes us remember certain people.

Without problem or need we tend to forget a lot…

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There are people who take roller-coaster ride for thrill, and get a kick out of that experience.

And then, there are people whose life itself gives them thrill and adrenaline rush.

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I don’t know how a person
who until now was accompanied
by sadness is supposed to
understand, react to and feel joy.

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May be people are depressed not because of wrong thinking, but because of experiencing and knowing the reality,
and may be because they can’t manage to overlook it.

Because they know the life as it is, and the truth about life:
that we live only once,
there’s no rebirth or afterlife,
justice isn’t always rightly served,
not everybody can live happily,
there’s no judgement day,
your society is alone like a dust particle somewhere in the dark deep space,
not everybody has a good luck.

Perhaps the nonsense of humans is too much for them, but instead they are the ones who have got isolated as nonsense.

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जीवन

मूर्खपणाच्या पाण्यात शेकडो डुबक्या घालून
नंतर शहाणपणाचे काही घोट पाणी पिणे.

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Ever taken break from life to think of life?
What is it? What has all these years, decades, centuries of life brought us?
It never appeared to you that all what the world is doing is a big fat scam, is a huge fraud created by the world itself?
Were we really made for this?
We can’t even think of life, so busy and caught up we are in life. How unhealthy it is. What a bloody quality of life that we live, and what have these lifestyles, development, cities got us into?
Look at the city life where you spend hours to travel to job and hours to get back to your home. Years and decades to pay for your own home. You can’t sit calmly. You eat while standing like a horse. Sleep, but no time to relax. Whatever you do, it is not enough. You also have to show you are happy to others who won’t be so happy to see your progress and joy. What once appeared basic and unlimited, now you pay for it? For water, for better air? And you live all along this way, yet you never live.

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You were sincerely sad, upset, depressed.

So when the opposite arrives,
also be very sincerely happy, joyful, cheerful.

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Like a flooded river flows,
I want to tell you something like firefly at night glows.

See how hard do I try,
To make the lines rhyme like a desperate cry.

I wish I could do a long distance walk with you,
During which I hold your hand,
It will be no less than a magic wand.

I wish you could have me as your teddy,
Because to hug you I am always ready.

Anytime I can let go the warmth of blanket during cold,
Rather I feel merry and warmer when in your strong hold,
My attempt to express this you may find bold,
But I will just let me feelings unfold.

In your lap I want to lay my head,
So many times this I may have said.

I want to slither my fingers through your hair,
And you know the reasons why it is all fair.

Your cheeks are like rose's petal,
I tell it to you with all mettle.

I want to spend time with you and feel fine,
Because when with you my mood has a different shine.

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We think about the choices we made, how hard we worked for something, and then how some doors opened for us, leading us to where we are.
What we don't think is, we were also led to this position not just by those opened doors, but also by closed doors, also by choices we didn't make but still had to settle for what we got.
It is combination of both the closed and opened doors that take us to where we are.
We have little, nothing, something or everything in our hands, depending on how we see it.
It is not just the paths we took that take us to where we are, but also the paths that we didn't take. And we flow through open paths, open doors, available ways, reaching to where we are. At times hy fate, at times by choice, and at times by no choice. Aren't we like some colloidal or dust particle wandering and wondering in this world?

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I want to trust and fly with my wings,
And don't want to leave my life to destiny that sings.

Here I fly out of my nest,
I hope the risk I take is for my best.

My past gave me scar after scar,
But I must live and I have to go ahead far.

Life is not fair,
But everyone has to find their own eclair.

Life has bad and good times all mix,
You have to rise like phoenix.

Number of times you may fall,
But after each fall is opportunity to stand tall.

No matter whatever next shows up,
Live with the attitude to never give up.

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