Knock Knock- Reality Here

Isn't it strange as to how we often ignore the most obvious things? I mean, we seem to overlook things that are right in front of us because we feel that not seeing them would save us from the painful stabs of reality. But it is very correctly said, "Merely closing our eyes to reality doesn't change the way it is." So, for the first time in life I tried to come in terms with what actually is, rather than running away to my fairytale world where I am safe from all the harsh truths of life. And guess what? For the first time, reality didn't seem like an enemy at all. Yes, it wasn't too much of a pleasant sight, but it surely was what I needed at the moment. When we are able to come in terms with the present, we become able to change it for the better. Afterall, the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of our life can be properly put together only by us. So, from now on, when reality knocks, just call it in. Believe it or not, it always brings with it the solution to all your problems, the magic key-Acceptance.

Antara

Been there and back again.....

Yet again a dreadful blow
Yet again that dreadful place
Yet again that empty touch
Yet again that cold face.

Yet again I stand alone
Yet again I feel so blue
Your actions, laugh, your everything
Takes me through a sense of deja vu....

Antara

Black or White?

For starters, I felt everything could be segregated into either of the two categories. I mean, a person can either be good or bad, a thing either useful or useless. But I recently have come across quite a few events that did succeed in altering my views. 

Any person or object is a bundle of characters and doesn't just portray any one of them. For instance, a person might be extremely kind but lack even the slightest bit of ambition. Now, for those of us who give more importance to kindness as a quality, this person might just seem like a saint. On the contrary, those of us who feel that a life without ambition is a life devoid of worth, this person might not seem to appeal at all. Similarly, to the first group of people some other attribute of his, let's say his habit of smoking, might seem pathetic and the second group of people might find his hardworking nature to be amazing! So, when we decide whether we like or dislike a person by and large, it depends upon whether we seem to like/dislike most of the attributes of his personality. 

I now realize as to how wrong I had been  earlier. I feel that a person is neither black, nor white, but he exhibits shades of grey. It's only our perspective, or more precisely  the angle of his personality that we have been able to witness, that determines whether we perceive him as black or white. The closer we look the more we realize that even the person who seems like a complete devil to us has something positive about him, that we due to our strong sense of dislike, seem to neglect. We should give everyone their chance and at all times refrain from forming preconceptions or being judgmental. Afterall, we too might seem white to some, but black to the others...

Antara

Silver sheets of water prance
Glisten in the setting sun
The day is to end, yet I so feel
That it has just begun.
When I sat here last, I wished you'd been there
That was then but now I say
It was nice knowing you yet now I think
It's time I go my way.

Antara