Voices

" Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love ."   ~George Eliot First of all, with this post I'll be breaking the surprisingly symmetric normal distribution of posts and nominally and locally making the job of central limit theorem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem) a bit harder. This is going to be all emotional and sulky probably so forgive me for that; I'm only human :) This should probably have gone in to all those dusty word files piled up in my writing folder; whose contents would be like myself cut open and put open on a table for inspection. Alas it is here because this feels more real, because I feel heard :) (Somewhat ironic considering the non-existent audience :D). Goodbyes are one of the topics that we as humans have dreaded and valued with almost equal feeling. It was when I googled 'Goodbyes' that I saw of few of the most thoughtful quotes I have ever read together in a single page. Goodbyes hav...

If there are some things that defines who we are to ourselves as well as to the world, then one of the most prominent of those would be the bonds that we make throughout our lives. Some bonds we keep, some we loose. The youngest of the bonds, the one with your parents and your siblings survive the sound trashing from the unpredictability of life till the very end. So does the bond with your loved one, close family and children; for most of us. In a way how we live is greatly influenced by these. We generally try to be happy and this includes the happiness of the people whom you care about, the live bonds around you. All our decisions like where and what to work on, where to live and many others depend partly on your decision to maintain some close bonds. These bonds are perhaps a tether in the vast sea of life that keeps us afloat. What about the bonds that did not survive life's trashing ? That close friend from high school whom you haven't heard about in years ? The wisd...