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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 [...]

Reflections, writing

[105] A Mini-Reflection On The Journey

December 12, 2017by Rahul Gaur10 Comments

It's been more than 10 days since I've written something. This was sort of a test to check my resolve for writing. How serious am I about it? I wanted to check will I miss writing. I did. Every night there was a want to write. The red book lay catching dust waiting for me [...]

journal

[89] The Morning

October 24, 2017October 24, 2017by Rahul Gaur3 Comments

Mornings that slow down time, by letting in a light sunlight, are the best mornings. The sweet coolness while you lay enveloped in your blanket struggling to wake. The sudden rush of the light sunlight turning into a harsh one is the call for an end to the slow morning. Until that harshness hits your [...]

poetry

[88] Curiosity Killed The Cat.

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017by Rahul Gaur9 Comments

so lost in knowing who I am that I never discovered who I could be could I be a sorted mess? could I be a simple obscurity? The potential is wasted on what there is A mess and an obscurity. The simple sorting of which lies in the future The silent cry of which lies [...]

poetry

[87] Sense of Time

October 19, 2017October 19, 2017by Rahul Gaur10 Comments

She's got a past that betrays future A mind so meticulous and a will so strong it turns waves back that form in my mind A walk so slow that you can't help but notice that she limps a little, a battle scar She's unlike anything any imitating her is almost a blasphemy but the [...]

Travel, Write-ups

[86] Travel and Writing.

October 18, 2017October 18, 2017by Rahul Gaur3 Comments

To travel is losing oneself in an environment quite larger than you. You realise how small you are in the grand scheme of things. That you still have a long way to go and that your way is paved with unfamiliar faces racing past you in a whisker. To travel is to find no time [...]

poetry

[81] Tenderly She Watches Me Burn

September 27, 2017September 27, 2017by Rahul Gaur3 Comments

so tenderly i burn you watch me on the television a spectacle for you detached because the fire can't harm you but i showed you this trick before when you were busy getting mesmerised by others later you realised what it meant when it was too late to collect the ashes you wish i were [...]

poetry

[79] Aimless Revolution of a Heartbreak

September 23, 2017September 23, 2017by Rahul Gaur2 Comments

surviving through bare necessities through your hum, through your wrath through your whistling breaths, through your ignorance overthinking. it takes a little time to realise that what i think is small like the letters i wrote to you that lie crumpled in a dustbin full of used items the resistance talks about the possibility of [...]

Write-ups

[78] Defeat.

September 20, 2017by Rahul Gaur3 Comments

Loneliness isn't limited to being alone. It transcends to a form where even though you are surrounded by everyone you want to be surrounded by, you still feel utterly alone. Loneliness is not the physical manifestations of people but the mental manifestation of us in their minds. If we are not in their minds when [...]

Write-ups

[77] Living In Extremes.

September 19, 2017by Rahul Gaur1 Comment

I live in the extremes of life. Even though it can be said that the closer we are to the extremes, the further we are from life. In a sense, extremes are a veiled longing for death. Extremes for an artist is to persevere and finish the project she/he's been working at for months. But [...]