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  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...
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An Empty Chair

“An Empty Chair” By  Pratiksha Misra


From morning cereal,
To an evening affair,
What never was around,
Was an empty chair..

From an angry state,
To a cry for an extra bread to spare,
What never was around,
Was an empty chair..

From the fresh water fish,
To the piping hot biryani,
Served in a silver dish,
From crying babies,
To toddler care,
From trying outs,
To wedding outfits,
What never was around,
Was an empty chair..

From laughter roar,
To midnight chuckles,
From quieter score,
To quilted giggles,
From a spicy gravy,
To sour taffy,
From bitter to sweet,
There was always dessert in the fridge,
And a smiling nudge at the topmost layer,
What never was around,
Was an empty chair..

Now since you are gone,
There is no winner at the dinner,
No one asks what you would
Like to eat,
No one sits and repeats,
How a dish tastes,
It all ended too soon,
How is that fair?
That now instead of you,
What we have is an empty chair..

*On this occassion of Thanksgiving, what my family craves for is a filled up chair, so better make the best of the times that you all have together with each other.

*pic-courtesy - chat-GPT5.1

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