Dear self,

One of these days you are going to get into big trouble.
Roll your empathy into a ball, throw it far away or crush it but stop manifesting it.
Preserve all your empathy for yourself, plants and animals.
If there's still any left, write it away.

From,
Your well wisher
Your soul

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लोग चले जाते हैं
यादे रह जाती हैं
आँखे नम और
मन सराबोर हो जाता है

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Life comes back full circle
The good, bad, ugly, merry, sarcastic all meet to make a heady concoction
Drink to your heart's content and keep brewing your flavour
For at the end it's yours to savour

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Dangling between the jungle of fragile egos and crafty web of manipulations, the rainbow seems lost as it traverses the labyrinth of life
It says to itself that no matter what I will not lose my sheen

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An ode to Sherry

Beautiful, loyal, no one trusted in me as much as you did
I gave you only three things - my love, time and a little bit of food
In turn, you taught me loyalty, unconditional friendship and paved a whole new world of compassion
Every time you slipped, I was there to hold you
Alas, this time I couldn't save you
Please forgive me my friend
Rest in peace
We will meet one day in some other world
Till then know that you will eternally live in my heart and that it is yours and only yours

Your friend
Saloni

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Clearer, sharper
The mirror still shows the same reflection
The perspective has changed
Light falls, bounces off
The focus has changed

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Sweet has turned into sassy,
The girl who always stood up for others has at last learnt to stand up for herself :)

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She's sassy and shy
She's the girl next door with a nervous smile
Yet the most eloquent of speakers
She could kill with her words
Yet chooses to speak with her eyes
She's the coldest of the lot yet has the gentlest of hearts
Tossed by the vagaries of life and manipulations, she is learning every day
The tide is rising, she can see herself in its swell
Winter is coming, everything's going to be stark white and icy cold

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The ability to see, hear and accept things as they are and make the best out of it to create what you want rather than what ought to be.

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A generous one!
It gives rationality and patience to digest the sweet and sour morsels of life in our appetite
and steals away innocence.
We all meet it and try to make friends with it to create our stories and edge our goals in its long shadows before it slips out of our hands.
Some are wary of it and stay afar, some try to keep up, others blissfully ignore, best are those who accept it as their own.

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