Tag: Write-ups

• [148] Solo Travelling

  

  A snow-capped summit that evades you. You are filled with fear of the distance, of the journey that is unknown. Sounds that you’ve never heard conjure and hijack your senses packing your ambitions behind fear. One day you wake up remembering why you dreamt at all. The morning motivation coupled with no external stimuli of…

  Rahul Gaur

  May 14, 2018

  journal

  art, blog, blogging, dreams, life, love, poetry, reality, songs, thoughts, Travel, Write-ups

• [144] Rebel With A Cause

  

  We are told that “don’t upset the system” “don’t be a rebel and lose your mind”. The reason? The functioning of the system is crucial for miscreants to survive. To not politicise art is just another way of submitting to the pressure of not being seen as a rebel. As the word, ‘rebel’ has a…

  Rahul Gaur

  May 6, 2018

  writing

  art, blog, Blogger, blogging, happy, life, love, Opinion, politics, sad, thoughts, truth, Write-ups

• [143] Guide For Not Reading

  

  A guide to not reading books. Step 1: Read a book’s synopsis, blurbs and get interested to read it. Step 2: Go to goodreads and check how many pages it is. Step 3: Start reading reviews. NO. Start reading ‘negative’ reviews. Et voila! Anyone else facing the same problem?

  Rahul Gaur

  May 5, 2018

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  art, blog, Blogger, blogging, books, fun, happy, life, poetry, reading, sad, thoughts, Write-ups

• [140] Wasted Times

  

  Stillness without contentment is just anxiety brooding. You can have the laziest day turn into a day of rest or it can turn into a day of sulking over your lack of productivity. Being holed up in a room and catching up with yourself can be tiring in an ironical way. Introspection takes effort and…

  Rahul Gaur

  April 26, 2018

  journal, writing

  art, blog, Blogger, blogging, experiment, happy, life, love, poetry, sad, thoughts, Write-ups

• [129] Mind As Summer

  

  My mind is summer now. Languid in its breathing of thoughts and idle in its progression of time. There is a blinding of the heat that is not surprising as it numbs the mind. Time & again it finds a shade of hope only to realise that it was an illusion of my own scorching…

  Rahul Gaur

  February 27, 2018

  writing

  art, blog, Blogger, blogging, experiment, life, poetry, sad, story, summer, thoughts, wordpress, Write-ups

• [127] Life: A Parody

  

  Aren’t we all just parodies of our true selves? Trying to feign reality but only becoming an amusement in return. We are always striving for the illusory knowledge of ourselves but all we find is an illusory illusion which breaks when we probe further. Where does the answer to the quest of our journey lie?…

  Rahul Gaur

  February 19, 2018

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  art, blog, blogging, experiment, Fiction, life, Opinion, poetry, sad, story, thoughts, Travel, Write-ups

• [120] The Glory of Silence

  

  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…

  Rahul Gaur

  January 15, 2018

  writing

  blog, blogging, dark, dreams, happy, life, love, poetry, psychology, sad, thoughts, Write-ups

• [115] My 5 Most Popular Blog Posts for 2017

  

  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…

  Rahul Gaur

  January 2, 2018

  Reflections

  art, blog, blogging, design, Fiction, life, listicle, love, poetry, story, thoughts, work, Write-ups

• [113] A Case Against You

  

  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…

  Rahul Gaur

  December 30, 2017

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  blogging, books, dark, Fiction, life, love, poetry, sad, story, thoughts, wordpress, Write-ups

• [99] The Melancholy Night 1 – Chasing Sleep

  

  It’s 4:30 AM I cannot sleep. I’m in the grips of insomnia. Thoughts are fleeting and I no longer have the energy to make them stop. It’s no longer the individual thoughts that hurt me, its the collective pace of them all that makes them unrecognizable. Only the feeling remains, the facts are aloof. I…

  Rahul Gaur

  November 14, 2017

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