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[261] How To Begin Again

September 27, 2019September 27, 2019by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

You forget the process when you stay away from it long enough. The process of beginning again rusts to form resistance and you feel lost while trying to find the spark to discover fire again. There is the idea and then there is a journey you go through to reach that idea or let that [...]

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[246] Confused Clarity

June 17, 2019by Rahul Gaur7 Comments

My distraction is aware of all that it lacks. It can be missing out on the various sounds of rain or it can be not holding the knowledge to appreciate architecture it falls on. I accept that there is a lot that I don't accept. I understand that there is a lot that I don't [...]

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[238] The Napkin Cafe

April 23, 2019June 26, 2019by Rahul Gaur14 Comments

Mumbai is a city where you see people drifting in and out of their own lives. Some days they feel the urge to live and some days they stay quiet and let the city consume them. On the days of living people go out in blind hope of chancing upon their destiny. They feel the [...]

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[222] Letting Go

January 10, 2019by Rahul Gaur1 Comment

I’m at a point in my life where tedium has replaced ideas in my brain. The concept of time is just a construct and the passing of it as ignorant as my ignorant breaths. I lie in bed, fully awake in my physical form but half asleep mentally. The internal voices have died down into [...]

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[207] Looking Again

November 21, 2018November 21, 2018by Rahul Gaur23 Comments

How do I start writing? How have I written until this point in time?These questions plague my mind that is numb. Feelings don’t come and stay, they are fleeting like the time that I lost. The confidence that I cherished until now is nowhere to be felt. Ideas do come in my head but they [...]

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[202] The Performance of an Artist

October 17, 2018by Rahul Gaur13 Comments

Nothing satisfies an artist. We are creatures who’ve got self-doubt running in our veins. Everywhere we go we remind ourselves of our inadequacy to be better/best. We hold our failures on a pedestal rather than letting our victories dance around our mind. Even to call ourselves artist only springs up an emotion of cringe in us. The myth [...]

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[189] Promote Your Blog

September 13, 2018September 13, 2018by Rahul Gaur101 Comments

It's September. The month of my birthday. Fall has begun but I'm reminded of my progress in blogging and how lovely it has been. The only consistency in my life. --- Also, you guys are free to comment here your blog links or one post that you'd like everyone to read. Let's make this a [...]

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[181] Mass Hysteria of Truth

August 20, 2018by Rahul Gaur14 Comments

The loneliest thing in the world is to search for the truth in everything and anything. Ask any conscious artist the question, "what is good art?", and most of them will answer "it's the pursuit of truth". No one will ever say "it's when you get to the truth" because no one ever gets to [...]

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[176] How To Be Successful?

August 4, 2018August 4, 2018by Rahul Gaur9 Comments

We're all excited in the story of the successful. The 1% that have achieved what they imagined. We deny ourselves thinking that we won't be a part of that 1%, so we don't listen to the other not so successful 99%. So now we don't know what not to do. Who tells the story of [...]

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[171] How To Find Balance in Life

July 27, 2018by Rahul Gaur13 Comments

Staying in your room for long hours helps you connect with your inner voice. You're finally able to identify why you aren't making some decisions and why you're making some. Decisions as trivial such as fully focussing on the TV show you're watching and denying yourself that decision by holding the phone in your hand [...]