Tag: thoughts
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[120] The Glory of Silence
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There’s both glory and doom in knowing yourself. The glory is that self-awareness helps you to not make mistakes. The doom is that you still make mistakes and you are self-aware about it. You suffer. You feel like your suffering knows no bound. No one’s suffering can compare with yours. But then you listen to…
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[119] Wake Up – My Micro Short Film
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Hey fellow WordPress bloggers, I’ve been here for a year and found the best of people here. You guys have helped me gain self-confidence through your comments and feedback on my writing. Having this community has been the highlights of 2017. Other than a writer, I am a filmmaker and I have made this 3-minute-film…
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[118] Remnants Of Your Remembrance
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A silent sentence I pass on myself like the stillness you’ve left behind bit by bit it rips apart the colours Now all there’s left is a monochromatic melancholy flashbacks of your memory They haunt me still like a deja vu I try to brush it aside as my mind’s trickery when all it does…
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[117] The Battle Of The Idle Mind
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An idle mind sits alone stoic as its nature it sits wandering with no aim A preface to the devil’s workshop It seduces the soul inside The mind meditates on its decision but considers all the outcomes They range from despair to joy to suffering In order to avoid suffering ignorance comes to the rescue…
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[116] The Spiral of Ignorance
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every time you leave i wish it is a sunset and i wait laying and lying hoping you will return as a sunrise harsh in your remembrance but sweet in your memories you tell me a story that meanders through my mind as i look at you curling your hair with your fingers in a…
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[115] My 5 Most Popular Blog Posts for 2017
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I started this blog as an experiment to become a serious writer after all. Writing has been therapeutic, cathartic and productive in helping me come close to my imperfect perfect version that I seek to achieve. My goal was to write 100 posts in a year and I completed it with 14 more, so you can…
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[114] The Fallacy of Mankind
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These eyes know little than what’s in between the lines but they try to open up what’s dormant in the mind like letting in colours of opinion and opinions about colours like a blue or a navy or a beige or a brown somewhere between complexity and concise somewhere between simplicity and sublime I walk…
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[113] A Case Against You
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There is a hearing in the courtroom. You sheepishly pull yourself together to the stand. This is a case against you. A drop of a nervous sweat trickles down your forehead as you wipe it away before anyone can see it. This is the dominion where you are put to the test of life. You…
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[112] Tiny Blue Dot
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The duality of it all conflicts when the astronaut walks on the ground the oxygen in his tanks leaks to light him up the bleak space up above fainter he closes his eyes until it closes his mind a stargaze up above lands itself on the ground the astronaut twinkles to the ones far away…
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[111] The Nation’s Mystery
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Part of my culture conflicts with my nature a deception of my mind I don’t let it resist a conscious of a nation so I fall back and fall apart to hide from the desire of standing out Then they say Nobody wants to know your mystery Mystery man You’re self-conscious about your own mystery Mystery…
Smoke words every day. 