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Moving on.. Or maybe not!

It felt like I knew you guys forever.. So, that initial awkwardness or the need to make that first 'good impression' was never felt.. And we just transitioned from colleagues to best buddies effortlesly.. There was nothing that we couldn't discuss about.. Yours was the only company where I felt safe and where I let my guard down.. I could be myself.. You know the passive aggressive, sarcastic, unpleasant person that I usually am.. But still you accepted me.. Because you saw some 'good' in me.. So while I was this rather 'difficult' person to be around with I was still welcome among you all.. And you never missed an opportunity to make me feel special.. Be it by celebrating my birthday with all the fanfare that a 'homesick' girl deserves, or by making my favourite dish because I had access to only boring PG food.. Those 8 or 9 years of my life have been the best years of my life.. There's absolutely no doubt about that.. Those dinner meets whe

Thoughts on death and dying..

So for all those people mourning the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, here are some statistics for you.. Between January and March 2019, 610 farmers committed suicide in India.. At the time this also made news headlines but never trended on Social Media.. Also I never saw these many posts/tweets praying for the souls of those farmers so that they rest in peace.. I'd like to ask "Why wasn't same concern shown then?".. See I don't want to get preachy about the whole issue because I know I'm not perfect.. But it does make me want to laugh out aloud when I read comments like "Lets boycott Bollywood", Let's boycott XYZ films. and not watch films of actors namely ABC, EFG and so on.. Like really?? You're going to boycott "their" films?? Hypocritic much? You're seriously going to boycott movies produced by a certain individual because you feel he/she abetted the suicide of the person in the news lately? Well I know I wont.. the reaso