I was looking for you. I found you crumbled, slightly scattered in a pile. Gray colored and the pale look of ash appeared under your eyes. You reminded me of Stone Dust! You were dull, crumbly and emotionless. I observed you from above. It was an out of body experience. I was OUT of my
Seeing stories in things far from us
Whenever I make the rendition of reality within me visible through the pen, only two people seem to exist: me and the reader. I write with the reader chained in my mind, and the reader would want to read my story because of reasons depending on his relationship with stories. Why am I a writer?
Education Is No Longer The Way!
Right now, there is a child sitting somewhere with both hands on his chin, his elbows on a wooden table and his eyes affixed to a teacher who knows just as much as to make everyone else look dumb. There is another child who finds it much of a problem to solve and find “x”;
The Structure of True Hate
True hate is scarce these days. Hate is not what we often think it is. When people experience similar patterns of hostile behaviour, they are inclined to conclude that they are being hated, but what we mostly interpret as hate in society is in fact often demonstrations arising from conflicting interests and goals. When individuals
Life In The Digital Age: The Impact Of Social Media
Social media has revolutionised our way of communicating. Since Six Degrees was established in 1997, a site widely regarded as the first recognisable social media network, digital communication has evolved rapidly, transcending geographical barriers to become a crucial part of many people’s lives. Today, there are 3.2 billion social media users worldwide equating to around
Jellyfish was the answer
1 A week, a month, or a year from now, I will most likely be laughing, perhaps simply amused, at this exact piece of work, a familiar and recurrent experience everyone can relate to. I call it ‘the summary effect’, an experience that looks upon the silliest of our past deeds, and proves over and
Another brick in the Wall?
One of the oldest sayings in the world is that you go into school blind and come out seeing. While this may have been true for the ancient Sumerians, it arguably hasn’t applied to us for a couple of centuries. Our education system was effectively designed 200 years ago, back when the most you could
The Metamorphosis of Identity: for the caterpillar never knows it is a butterfly!
Sometimes the scariest confrontation is that between the mind, body and soul. When the human trinity is so out of sync, you feel a deep depression, an existential problem and pity for the conflicted frail species that you are. Human. A mere mortal. The incongruence of my dreams and aspirations in my reality is the
Fears
I have a grave fear of heights. And lights. And loud noises. Many people think that I’m some lame countryside girl, farmer’s helper and my worst fear is living in a bustling city. It’s sad that it’s true. Being free to run wild and play in humongous forests with ancient trees beats getting squashed on
Paint and Punishment
The prison cell was damp and cold. Not that it mattered. Sophie was to be executed tomorrow. Sophie Bunzel had seen the monster of the Pura behind its diplomatic appearance. Its insidious rise, the labour camps, the cruel laws outlawing any form of art, but, above all, their brutality. She watched them take over her
To be Human is to Grow
To breath and not actually live is a sin to all those who never had the chance to live as long as us. Many people are afraid of death but fail to understand that being stationary in life and not being more than what you were yesterday is worse than death. It is robbing yourself
Hope Springs Eternal: Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk
Nelson Mandela: the herd-boy from Mvezo In February of 1990, Nelson Mandela stepped out of prison after a gruelling 27 years. The Mandela who emerged from prison was a different person from the boy who herded cows in his father’s village. When he emerged, with a cautious walk, the crowd went electric. It was a
Wild Horses
Henry Ford is famously quoted for stating that if he had asked people what they would want when he was creating his new mode of transportation, they would have said faster horses. Ford was referring to the fact that for many people change is hard and having a vision of something new and unique may
Penniless Thoughts
I. Asking a question “What is conflict within a story?” Conflict calls for a resolution, it asks a question. Whether the answer to the question is satisfying enough in the end, is up to the reader. Apart from a strong theme or inspiring characters, a compelling story is often considered as one that manages to
Gut Instinct: Invisible but Indelible
To know the self is impossible as the self is constantly changing, growing, and adapting. To paraphrase Heisenberg, we cannot simultaneously know our position and direction. Perhaps that is the paradox in the command from the Oracle at Delphi. To know thyself is to know that the self is unknowable. The self doesn’t really exist.
An Objective Argument Against Racism
Imagine there were no people from Africa as one region on the planet. Or rather, imagine everyone with a little bit of race that was not the same as your own left this, our host planet, in one migratory movement. If I as one person could leave planet Earth such that every single person on
The Immortal Evil of Humanity
Each of us has met with acts of hatred and cruelty, from one degree or another (from neglect to contempt, from indifference to hatred). In my opinion, hatred is a terrible phenomenon, insidious, bearing a threat from which wounds (mental or physical) take a very long time to heal. Hatred is a twofold concept: on
The Awakening
Veronica Roth says that ‘if there’s no conflict, there are no stories worth telling – or reading’. Inasmuch as this statement speaks some truth, it implicitly criticises humanity and it doesn’t exactly conform to our reality. Fortunately or unfortunately, there are always two sides to a coin and in this life the battle between expectation
I am dying to find the real me…
Set foot in distinctive facets, restrict your musing upon what you were and what you are now. But get the essence of past to create a strong human being within yourself on life’s journey. “You were the worst, but now you are the best.” If you can hear the words that I mention then you
The Duality of Self
Many people’s aim in life is to achieve a goal. Although, it is common to hear people say that they do not have a goal, a dream, an aim in life. This can be true to some extent. But at some point in a person’s life, there is the desire to be recognised, to revenge,