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Love Letter

Overwhelmed by visual stimuli I've forgotten the 16 things I was meaning to Google in the last 24 hours Maybe if I rewind to that episode where a mental lightbulb was lit it would come back to me? Or maybe if I just slow down and stop, close my eyes and try and empty my mind the best thing will appear magically? How much of your life is wasted because you forgot to record to relive it later? Does spontaneous ideating to spontaneously forgetting the idea mean you should obsessively stop and write the second the idea strikes you as lightning? And if it's visual stimulus that's the brainchild of the idea, does blinking repeatedly (not unnaturally) over time add to the idea's erosion? There's so much you can do with your time if you pay attention to your brain. If you amuse yourself thoroughly with every idea and allow yourself to go down the deliciously fulfilling internet research of it. Or even your own musings! How do you ensure the security of such a mind? And by s

Inside my thought canopy

She opens my eyelids comically and methodically With adorably squinty concentrating effort Takes a spoonful of sleep and pours it in systematically Just like that I feel the carby slowdown of my entire body My declining posture from sitting to half sitting to the most bad-for-your-back half lie down Sleep, she comes in such a sure and entitled way: "I own you for the next 7-9 hours" Mr. Bladder quietly from downstairs, "We'll see about that" Sometimes, Sleep, see she can elude you. No rest for the wicked is what people say. An empty mind is the devil's workshop they say. But aren't you supposed to empty your mind in order to attract a restful state of mind conducive to sleep? Does lucid dreaming come easily to Type As? It would be frustrating for them if it didn't There's so much you can do instead with the time you're body's slaved to sleep Invention of water vacuums or is it vaccums That would make it so no toilet floor wou

Hindu cats are infidels 🐱

No really See They say cats have nine lives This means When two cats have a Hindu wedding They only vow to be together for the next 7 This means Their last two lives they move on with other cats A wise man would argue that this is not infidelity Because technically the commitment was for 7 lives not 9 And that technically also the commitment is for 7 human lives not cat lives The romantic man would say rewrite the vows to make it 9 Sorry I mean romantic cat It's to be said that a commitment of 7 lives is finite If a Hindu marriage is so sanct, why impose a limited period in the first place A wise man would argue that there is no life after 7 lives and that's why the commitment is finite Another wise man would say 1 life is enough and finite or infinite, commitment has to be towards something known. It is unknown what lies after this life is ended. But that wise man is not Hindu so it doesn't matter what he thinks

Say When 🥄

When you leave it unread And your curiosity is left unfed When you know it's a Sunday, it comes after six days And you also know that tomorrow is Monday, today'll pass in a daze When you're out of bread at the end of breakfast And there's one last morsel of runny egg it missed When you jump, bum first, into the baby pool And realise a step would have been far less cruel When you style your hair using a curling iron And the voices say today's a good day for dyin' When you want to become a professional breakdancing bgirl And decide, at 27, a single headstand is easier to learn When you're really craving rich cheesy Polish pierogi And end up ordering Tibetan momos unhappily When you're writing peacefully after months on Keep And there's constant talking around interrupting your ability to be deep When you're focused, to be true, the background stays there And you don't need to make excuses as you've got the flair

Miss's Scented Senses

Permanence comes from being resolute Which means having resolve and being determined to stand by your resolution But what good is permanence in a transient world? Where the resolutions are transient themselves Change annually, predictably too, on the eve of a New Year We seem to love a new slate so much The promise of starting anew "from this Monday", "from the 1st of next month", "from the first day after my birthday" Aye but I didn't come here to write about something substantial so... Imagine walking into a hospital with 4 stones and coming out with just three. How do you have the gall to do such a thing?! Such clever musings are the consequence of watching a man stare at a bunch of stones by a bus stop that's just outside a hospital. That joke just wrote itself! The whole point of taking the bus is to be out of the bus. No other vehicle allows for such wide angled views. Even if the view isn't much to write home about, it's ju

Music that Gets me Every Single Time

This was originally going to be a playlist idea of all the songs that really hit me right in the feels but I started writing them down and now I'm too lazy to make it an actual playlist. And it was originally going to be 10 songs but of course it's 30 now. It's too late for me to bother linking these but I'll probably make a playlist someday. I also thought it would be a nice idea to elaborate why each song gets me every time but then it's too much effort to articulate how each song makes me feel and I think by doing that, it may dilute how pure it is currently. Music is so much more than we give it credit for. Without further ado, here is the list of my top 30 ultimate favourites that make me feel the most feelings that I could think of in the past 30 minutes. "Miss You" by Foster the People "The Beach" by The Neighbourhood "Instant Crush" by Daft Punk "Passionfruit" by Drake "There is a Light that Never goes out

Am using amusing lines

Aniket's funny Kate, the gujju kitten I'm not a cat person, but with growing older and all that comes with moving away from people to moving closer to animals, one thing you come to realise is that cats are just hopelessly hungry dogs who happen to love cleaning themselves more Sheldon, the don of shells Little shells donned in a necklace is so beachy and the don of shells wears multiple such endo(r)nments that don('t) really make him look very formidable as a don should seem but the ocean and its creatures fear him just the same A house doesn't feel like a home until... You walk into the toilet for a tinkle and end up reading 64 pages of the Tinkle double digest and it's 45 minutes later Lots of happenings continue to happen long after they've happened If everyone did what they wanted to do all at the same time I think everyone would feel like OMG I think everyone is doing what they want to do and so am I but why am I feeling so good as I shouldn't r