Tag: life
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Play to Win…
“It’s not about the cards you’re dealt, but how you play the hand.”– Randy Pausch It is folly to sit and pine that someone else has a better life than you and therefore, it is futile to work hard and overcome your circumstance. It is undeniable that life, like a card deck, has brighter days…
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No Regrets…
This life is never static, it is an ever undulating landscape of highs and lows. People who do not strive for more than medeocrity will ride out these undulating hills of life with less wear and tear, than those who dare to risk the leaps we all can take that make our lives infinitely more…
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Murder on the Orient Express…
It was the final year of high school, it was blisteringly cold that day… rain streaming down the windows of the library. The library, a shelter from the elements. I pushed open the door, felt the warm air of the heating system instantly and went and sat down on an old couch in the corner.…
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Silent Night..
My Dear Silence.. I close my eyes and listen The distant rumblings on the road keep me awake. It’s dark now, not a single soul around Yet, I’m smitten! I’ve fallen in love with the silence, not just for namesake! All my senses are labouring intently as the aroma of jasmine wafts gently The cool…
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The Human Condition.
The human condition is what unfolds in our lives day by day… yet no one pays attention.. this is not right! The burden of simply being is not light.. it is crushing on almost a daily basis. We are born, we struggle to grow up happy, some barely able to make it to adulthood.. still…
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Time is on my side…
Time has to be said seems the proverbial arch enemy of all things. Regardless whether you consider a speck of dust or a blue whale.. or a diamond or a blade of grass.. all things succumb to the passage of time. All living things cease to exist given a long enough duration of clicks on…
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Autumn Blues
The wind sweeps swiftly to disperse the leavesIt whistles and wallows in despair, it weeps The wind howls a distinctive bluesIt is dismayed that its friends it must loose The wind longs to fellowship with the treesBut it finds it too painful to listen to their pleas The wind has no say in the matterExquisite,yellow,…
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Journey of Self…
I have always experienced an intrinsic conviction to perceive life in the form of a journey… If we view life as a fundamental concept you will notice it has a distinct beginning and an end, not dissimilar to a journey one embarks on. I would have to conclude from my days of living, that the…
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When it’s all been said and done..
Write a letter to your 100-year-old self. Dear Me, When it’s all been said and done.. when you look back on this life what do you see? I write this letter as a poignant reminder reflecting on the choices you made, the sacrifices you gave, the memories you made and the people you saved? Do…
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The Meaning of Life
A question is asked to illicit information… but what does one do when the information is so vast that the answer to the question becomes incomprehensible? The meaning of life has been pondered since time immemorial by fools and sages. If you ask a thousand strangers on the street this question, you’re bound to get…
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