Belief

Posted by meetu on November 21, 2011 No comment

No, not the religious kind. Neither the one in self. The ones that we have convinced ourselves as “truth”s. “Reality”. What is it made up of? One incident. Two points of view. Or a hundred. A hundred truths. Or a …

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21 years ago, I’d want to say to myself

Posted by meetu on June 28, 2011 1 comment

Live. Let live. Learn. Let learn. Not every problem is for yours to solve. Not everybody’s problems are for you to solve. Dad is right. Not always. People are nice. Not always. And it’s ok. Yet, when people tell you …

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Haircuts, etc

Posted by meetu on June 23, 2011 2 comments

Yay! This is the place where I can complain. Yes, even about the awful haircut I got. For two years now I’ve been trying to grow my hair longer. Under the instruction of my hair-stylist (feel like calling her a …

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Blank

Posted by meetu on June 16, 2011 2 comments

Have you ever had those people in your life, who you got along reasonably well with, even maybe, were close friends with and now, things have changed. They have changed. You have changed. And now you don’t really care too …

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Permanent

Posted by meetu on June 16, 2011 12 comments

This my 2.5 year old tattoo. Like any well-bred, cultured, family-fearing, marwadi woman, I didn’t publicize it too much. So, just imagine how I cringed when bai (my naani, maternal grandma) said, “meetu, what happened to your foot?” Within a …

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Color

Posted by meetu on June 15, 2011 2 comments

I’d like to see people have a little more color. In what we wear, there’s beige and blue. Let’s bring in a little more hue. In how we are born, black, brown, yellow or white. Can we be born colorless? …

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Nothingness

Posted by meetu on June 15, 2011 No comment

How do people deal with it? The vacant mind, the spotless sunshine? It’s beautiful, but it’s still blank. It’s there, the void. And it needs to be dealt with. How do people fill the serene, the vacant, the spotless, the …

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The Cup is Ours – Links compiled

Posted by meetu on April 4, 2011 6 comments

Like most of you, I popped myself out of the car window. I high-fived total strangers who were painted pink and purple. Holi had repeated itself in just two weeks. Random people joined me and chanted "SACHIN SACHIN" and "DHONI …

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Of dogs and bitches

Posted by meetu on March 8, 2010 7 comments

Girls (and actually it won’t hurt boys to read this either), try this – For today, DO NOT talk/think more than once about (only, if you complain about them/think of them with negativity. If positive, then think of them all …

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smilies

Posted by meetu on February 24, 2010 6 comments

** mush alert ** You know the emoticon ? It’s always smiling. The other one is a whole different emoticon. And there are people like these emoticons. Some of them with lips always curved upwards. My first memories of people …

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