एक उम्र हुआ,
दिल से दिल की बात किये हुए |
बोलो क्या बोलूं?
पूछूं कैसे हो तुम ?
या जाने दूँ ?

थक गया हूँ !
इसे समझते समझते !
जाने हीं देता हूँ !
नहीं ?

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There are people who enjoy the productive aspect of working hard. It is their movie, their travel, their gossip, their entertainment. Do not encroach that space.

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"You were awake?"
"Yes."
"If I don't my knees pain these days."
"Why don't you go to the doctor ?"
"It is a waste of money. Don't worry I am alright."
"When did you go to sleep last night?"
"It got late. Your father had brought some friends. They ate nice and well before they left. Why are you asking these questions?"
"Nothing. I love you ma. One day I will earn a lot of money and you won't have to work."
"Haha. Get married when you grow up so that I can get some help."
"Why marry? I will take care of you. I don't want someone else to take care of you."
"Haha. Ok. I will bring you some food. Change your clothes."

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It is 4 a.m. The alarm clock  woke her up. I was awake too, mostly due to insomnia. She slipped out of the warm minsk blanket and sat on the edge of the bed with her legs dangling down. She massaged both her knees for the next 3o minutes and with the help of the wall stood up. She moved towards the kitchen to prepare food to take to school for me and my cousins.

When I came from school, she was sitting on the couch, holding onto a ball of wool, 2 weaving needles and peacefully asleep. Somehow she sensed my presence and woke up. With weary expressions, red eyes she asked -
“ Do you want to eat ?”
"Yes ma. Ma why were you massaging your legs in the morning?"

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Choose happiness, choose confidence, choose your life one 'No' at a time.

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"I couldn't get past the check when I was 35 and had to wait in the teaching queue for 15 years."
"It's fine. I did knew a guy who lived till 65. Can you imagine ? I did not know that a human being as fragile as he is could live upto that age."
"Yeah! That sounds sketchy to me. Anyways can you hurry up. I have another lecture in 30 seconds."
"Ohk! I will just do that."
"Thanks!"

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"Virat?"
"Yes Tripti!"
"Your lecture is over?"
"Yes."
"Can you restart my machine?"
"What happened?"
"During the lecture today, I couldn't access the emotional files on my system. I think I was not able to teach my class how to feel today."
"Oh! How long have you been running?"
"I completed a century last week."
"When did you die?"
"100 years ago Virat. They uploaded my brain to the machine when I was around 50. I think that might be the reason for these emotional glitches."
"That's late. They uploaded my brain when I was 35."

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First Act then Think and then Think and Act.

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"No. I meant love. It can be between family members, partners , with self, with your work, maybe homework or even with other creatures."
"I don't know such love sir."
"Hmm. Does anyone not know what love is?"
Ferenxyto left the collaborator and in the classroom hyperspace, dropped a sexual video titled -'love on mars'.
"Mr. Ferenxyto, before you understand sex, feel what love is."
"But sex is love sir."
"I would not counter for your generation which is impossible to understand but I feel it is part of the full story."
"Sir you understand, you are boring us."
"Indeed. And that has been my intention."
The Collaborator shut down. The lecture was over.

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"Who can tell me what is love ?"
The entire classroom got startled. An immediate wave of smiles and laughter permeated through the classroom. Nobody raised their hand. There was shame in some faces and hesitation in others.
"Xena perhaps you can tell us what love is."
"Sir!"
"Yeah you. Didn't you hyper-spaced  a vacation pic of you and your family yesterday."
Hyperspace is a social media design connecting every individual in the solar system. Everyone who is born has an account on it created by default.
"Sir but that is family."
"And family is not love?"
"Oh! You meant family love?"

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