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. ...
“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… ...
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. ...
As I stood there watching him scrape away the rustling dry leaves off the unnamed grave, I was left wondering; Would there be someone who would do the same at mine long after I am a distant memory? It was a hot and humid Friday afternoon. Even though an hour of prayers in the stifling heat had done wonders for me psychologically, it had been rather taxing physically. I had come out raring to rush home when I had suddenly remembered that there was a grave that I had wanted to visit for a while now. ...
It still seems like it all happened yesterday. Of course, for those of you who know me well, you will know that I have been bitten by dogs. Yes, plural. Thrice. Is there something so out-of-the-ordinary about it? No. Am I gonna be talking about those incidents here? Nope. Not now 🙂 So what do I want to share with you today? Most of the other bites that I have gotten in my life come either from my little cousins or my nephews or nieces. And then there was one. The real deal this time. It all happened in my third year of college. ...