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Friendly Addiction: Unlimited Interactions

  In life, we get all kinds of friends, some close, some closer, some strangers, some travelers. In my experience, at one point in my life, I had more than 500 friends, during my school days back in Carmel Convent School, Hamirpur, Rourkela. My parents would constantly see me getting phone calls, and visitors independent of their demographics.      My father would smile and say, "Jenny, are you an IAS officer?, that you get so many calls in a day?" . I used to laugh in response and say, "Paa, they all want me to solve their problems, and I love the attention".     How did this happen?, it didn't happen when I started school, trust me, I was really shy, hardly talking and surprisingly even my teachers in kindergarten had escalated issues, stating that I don't even show classwork to teachers during the class. I was the youngest, in my father's family and I had a total of 6 elder cousins to look upto, including my elder brother. When I started school...

Not In Straight Line



*pic courtesy - painting taken from pinterest.

I am telling you
I am not perfect
My bed is messed up all day long
I have been said I am nothing but wrong
My voice cracks open a tragic song
My closet has clothes that don't fit me
There are times when even my dog doesn't sit with me

I am telling you
Life is not supposed to be..
What you want to see..
I have been thrown out, shouted at, made fun of, 
everytime I want to change and be free..
I have been called arrogant, stupid, mad, with ideas that shatter...
I discovered things that no one in the room thought but only if it could matter..

I am telling you
That people aren't perfect and nor they will ever be...
If you wait for them to align
You will be the one being struck out of line
Don't think every criticism is fine
Some are horrific with absurd design

So what if I am not perfect
I can tell that imperfection is abstract
Breaking the rules is not nodding to solicitations
I have tried, failed, then tried back and failed yet again

I am telling you
If you are like me
You see things that others fail to see
You will do things others won't necessary like
But you will still become someone
To lot of others who don't 
Want to walk in straight line


**By Pratiksha Misra, author of Innocent Thoughts, available on Amazon


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