Hard Sweet Life

Happiness, true happiness, is an inner quality. It is a state of mind. If your mind is at peace, you are happy. If your mind is at peace, but you have nothing else, you can be happy. If you have everything the world can give - pleasure, possessions, power - but lack peace of mind, you can never be happy. Dada Vaswani Image Source: Tranquil hearts Happiness and peace of mind are the most elusive in the life of man, especially in love. Love should however give you these two things. When in love, you are the happiest person because you have peace of mind. You know the other person loves you back and therefore have peace of mind. Only an idealist believes that these things last though. People fall out of love just as fast as they fall into it. It has been happening since the beginning of time and will continue to happen in future. Am not saying it’s a good thing to fall out of love and don’t get me wrong, not all marriages are doomed to fail; some survive the tests of time. It...

Image Source: The Right Kind Of Wrong Movie NB: Contains spoilers for  The Right Kind Of Wrong  Movie We spend the better part of our lives as teenagers and adults trying to find the right one; our soulmate. We know we should not trust the fairy tales and that the slipper may not always fit. But we hold onto the hope that somewhere out there, is that one person who can complete our lives. It's not like they are empty, but hey, who doesn't want a happy ending. A happy family with kids and if possible, a picket fence. And so we go around kissing as many frogs as we can (pun intended). We meet them all; the handsome, the pretty ones, the well endowed ones, the violent ones, the self absorbed ones  - you name them. Sometimes we stay in those same relationships trying to make things work. We give it our all, but it doesn't always work out. When it does though, we get a new lease at life, and now that we have learnt from past mistakes, we make it work. For our...

She stood at the corner of the street watching him. He was engrossed to his phone, oblivious of the girl watching him. She watched from a distance as he crossed the street.   She watched because it didn't matter she was late for work herself. She felt a strong urge to cry and tears welled in her eyes. What had come of him? Through hazy eyes she watched as he disappeared into the crowd. She used the back of her hand to wipe off a tear. She shouldn't attract attention to herself. She remembered her job and with quick steps walked to her bus station after giving the crowd one last look, in the hope that she would see him. Source: The Vampire Diaries Series Did this mark the beginning of many days to come? What had been so important that he forgot? Forgot their ritual. Forgot that they hugged before parting ways each morning. It was a fast, ‘brush my shoulder hug’, but she loved it. She loved his hands round her waist every morning before she sta...