Average: The Stories That Don’t Get Told
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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Life Stories
Life Stories is where the ordinary things sit before they become stories. A sentence overheard, a room remembered, a small irritation, a moment that looked harmless at first and then refused to leave. These pieces are about everyday life, memory, family, work, identity, and the strange ways we become ourselves while doing everything else.
Start with these life stories
- Still Not Journalling
- We Could Have Been Gen Y
- What The A to Z Challenge Taught Me About Storytelling
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When Healthy Living Meets Real Life
Healthy living often looks effortless on television and social media. In real life, it has to fit around work schedules, family needs and ordinary routines. A reflection on diets, fitness enthusiasm and what healthy living actually looks like in everyday life.
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A Morning of Doubt
Some mornings are too busy for anxiety. Packing lunches, tying hair, watching the clock. But when the house finally falls quiet, the mind sometimes catches up with everything it has been avoiding.
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Exhasuted
I am exhausted. I full extent of my exhaustion hit me just a few moments ago. I spotted the spelling error in the title of this post even as I wrote it and the effort of moving my cursor there and retyping seemed too much to bear. Today, I was multi tasking since morning. Attending
There is so much I want to say…
…but I don’t seem to be finding the right words. All around me things have changed. The Pandemic has thrown us into an unprecedented situation. For the last 6 months, I have struggled to cope. There, I said it. And now, I feel the inane need to explain myself. In March, India went into lockdown.
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A Monsoon of Joy
Thunder cracked just as I began typing, and my first instinct was to run to the balcony to rescue the laundry. I had already done it. That small reflex told me everything. Somewhere between childhood picnics to Lonavala and adult grocery lists, the monsoon stopped being a season and became a task. This piece sits with that shift, the rain outside unchanged, the pressure inside entirely my own.
Drama #AtoZChallenge
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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A Life Update
Hi everyone, I have been away from my blog for a while now. Those of you who are connected with me on social media might probably know the reason. We have recently had another addition to our family!! I am blessed to be a mother of 2 Angels now. I had a tough pregnancy but
When Friendships Change
Friendship day was a few days ago. I had always believed that we don’t need a friendship day. With real friends, you can pick up from wherever you left off. No matter how much time has passed. As we grow older and busier, more and more time passes between picking up till eventually it feels
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Intimidating and Exciting Mumbai, My Experience #SubscriptionLifestyle
Mumbai was my home for decades. It was the city I spent my conscious childhood, the city that saw me turn into a confused teenager and finally, a woman. Mumbai is where I went to school and college. It is also the city of my first job. I loved the city. I loved that it
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