Edward The Long-Nosed

A trip to a luxurious resort. All expenses paid. Doesn’t that seem wonderful? Well, read on to know more about what two days of free luxury can do to you! GO Plus is a project conducted by the company I work for, and employees are sent once in their ‘work-lifetime’ to attend a two-day, two-nights package at a resort where you have fun with twenty other employees doing activities that teach you different values. ...

February 26, 2017 · 2 min read · 400 words · Zoheb Rahiman

Life and Death

“Each one of us is hurtling towards death. Yet here we are, for the moment, alive. Each of us knowing that we are going to die. Each of us secretly believing that we won’t.” I am no stranger to death… Death has been my sibling ever since I was one. Even though I was far too young to realize it then, something died in me that fateful day. Something bright; something resembling love. Death snuffs out dreams in a shattering second. People die… ...

February 25, 2017 · 2 min read · 273 words · Zoheb Rahiman

Mirror

I stand alone, staring into the mirror of life I see many faces, stricken by strife. And I wonder, isn’t life nothing more than a reflection? A rumination; nothing short of a revelation? The past flashes before my very eyes, Sometimes hard, sometimes nice. I see myself standing in a crowd I want to shout; to cry out aloud. I want to reach out; to warn the younger me, To implore him not to grow up into “me” I cling to the edges, clutching at thin air, Watching him curse life for being unfair. ...

February 23, 2017 · 1 min read · 198 words · Zoheb Rahiman

Conundrums

You are always too old to shirk your responsibilities and too young to do the things you yearn for!!

February 22, 2017 · 1 min read · 19 words · Zoheb Rahiman

A random thought on thoughts

This is the hardest thing to do of all. The waiting. The languishing. The pausing. Isn’t it time for voice responsive technology to take over the world by storm? Shouldn’t we be talking to our computer by now to tell it what to do? Thinking something. Typing it out. The incessant drum of keys. The constant rumble of thoughts being pounded in by the necessarily debilitating slowness of my fingers. Are forty words per minute sufficient to curb the inflow of thoughts? Definitely not. What about fifty? What about a hundred? ...

February 21, 2017 · 1 min read · 189 words · Zoheb Rahiman