Some writers tell stories. Fredrik Backman makes it impossible to walk away. You carry his characters into ordinary days, where they feel more real than people you know.
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Same song. Same book. Same film.
But not the same experience.
The story doesn’t change. What you carry into it does.
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I grew up believing daydreaming was a distraction. But the scenes stayed. They returned, sharper each time, with people and moments that had nothing to do with my life. For a long time, I thought that meant I was doing it wrong. Now I know those daydreams weren’t random at all.
They were where the story began.
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We think we tell stories to explain what happened. But every story leaves something out, rearranges something else, and slowly becomes the version we can live with.
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We like to believe there’s one version of what happened.
But most of the time, what we hold on to is shaped less by the event itself, and more by what we needed it to mean.
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If it doesn’t look like success or struggle, we don’t call it a story. But most of life happens in that unnamed space in between.
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Indian women have a love-hate relationship with Kajal. We love to wear it and love to discuss it but hate that it smudges and is a pain to take off. Like most, I too am forever on the lookout for the perfect Kajal. It is like chasing the holy grail and I truly believe that
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In everyone’s life there are people who cause drama. If there are none in your life, consider yourself lucky! I mean it. A lot of self help books and Internet memes I came across talk about cutting out people who spread negativity in your life. But you know what, sometimes that is not possible. Not
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Ever since I remember, people praising me have called me cute (not that there have been many instances when I have been praised for my looks, I think I have been praised more for my mind and I prefer it that way!) As a teen, I used to wonder what was the difference between cute,
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There was a time when I used to read a lot of romances. Well, like most girls, I dabbled with Mills & Boon. When those books became too predictable, I looked at other erotica but none seemed to hold my interest for too long. Why? Because they mostly had a flimsy plot. Most books focused
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