Category Archives: hmmm…i’m thinking

The conflict-compassion conflict

Posted by meeta on December 5, 2016 None comments

Plurality always existed as did difference of opinions. But, so did each sect, sub-sect, and sub-sub-sect’s need for individuality. Is it a surprise then, that there has never been a world without conflict? It goes with the theory of evolution …

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Are people phases?

Posted by meeta on October 12, 2015 None comments

Are people, phases of your life? Are kids phases in their parents’ lives? At different ages, different phases? When they fly away, the empty nest phase arrives with a whole new world of opportunities for all parties involved? Are friends …

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Faking Nonchalance

Posted by meeta on July 22, 2015 6 comments

I’ve been having these intense conversations with a few close friends. Coincidentally, almost all of these friends are single. And I guess not so coincidentally, many of these conversations revolved around relationships – both romantic and platonic (but relatively close …

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Love Limited

Posted by meeta on March 23, 2014 1 comments

When I was pregnant for the first time, I read these articles on mother-child bonding – how the first few months of a child are the most defining ones as far as bonding is concerned, etc. My initial instinct was …

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From the Unsaid to the Over-said

Posted by meeta on March 8, 2014 None comments

Is there such a thing as too much communication? I’d like to go all sexist and say, “I think not, but then again, I am a woman.” But seriously, is there such a thing as too much communication? Can you …

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Nothingness

Posted by meeta on June 15, 2011 None comments

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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smilies

Posted by meeta 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 …

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let go

Posted by meeta on February 24, 2010 1 comments

There are people you see and you sense an instant connection. You want to know more about them, just like that. Happens to me all the time. Hell, even tweets and blog posts make me want to know the person …

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STOP ANALYZING!

Posted by meeta on February 15, 2010 17 comments

  I’ve been told that in almost so many words, by more than one person in the last two days! A couple of them were in a tone that I really don’t appreciate be talked to in. But they are …

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An open letter to …

Posted by meeta on February 11, 2010 4 comments

Best of my bonding with abu-rabad happens when we are watching TV together and while doing homework. Let’s forget the existence of homework for the time being. Done? Good. So, abu and i are watching either cricket or a music …

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